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Old and new fire vehicles
Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 6:02 am
by Micael
The Stockholm fire department turns 150 years old this year and held a bit of a fire vehicle parade and display with historic and present vehicles. Kind of neat:
https://youtu.be/RSyWhi_bG2A
Re: Old and new fire vehicles
Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 11:06 am
by jemhouston
Thanks for posting this. Nice way to honor the past.
Re: Old and new fire vehicles
Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 2:31 pm
by Pdf27
Had a very early New York fire engine racing in the village recently.
Re: Old and new fire vehicles
Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 3:02 pm
by Micael
jemhouston wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 11:06 am
Thanks for posting this. Nice way to honor the past.
Thanks, yeah it is nice like that.
Re: Old and new fire vehicles
Posted: Sat May 31, 2025 3:03 pm
by Micael
Pdf27 wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 2:31 pm
Had a very early New York fire engine racing in the village recently.
That’s a cool one.
Re: Old and new fire vehicles
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2025 4:50 pm
by Nik_SpeakerToCats
But if you want 'TRAD'...
http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWE ... ryeng7.htm
Horse-drawn, of course. Hopefully fire-raising in boiler would suffice by the time they arrived at scene...
Re: Old and new fire vehicles
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2025 5:30 pm
by Pdf27
Micael wrote: ↑Sat May 31, 2025 3:03 pmThat’s a cool one.
1924 American LaFrance Speedster -
https://www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/93- ... 57716&sd=1
We had a bunch of others including the oldest surviving Aston Martin (Green Pea) - the Aston in Aston Martin comes from the village I lived in which was home to some of the earliest motor racing events in the UK.