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Commercial type vehicles including: trucks, off-highway, fire-trucks, trailers, and buses, accounted for the rest. A total of 2,053 NO models alone were produced from 1940 to 1945. The 7 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton 6x6 NO was the most important specifically military model, and could be used as a transport or tractor for the 155 mm Long Tom field gun. Mack ...
Fire engine. A fire engine or fire truck (also spelled firetruck) is a vehicle, usually a specially-designed or modified truck, that functions as a firefighting apparatus. The primary purposes of a fire engine include transporting firefighters and water to an incident as well as carrying equipment for firefighting operations in a fire drill.
The Green Goddess is the colloquial name for the RLHZ Self Propelled Pump manufactured by Bedford Vehicles, a fire engine used originally by the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS), and latterly held in reserve by the Home Office until 2004, and available when required to deal with exceptional events, including being operated by the British Armed Forces during fire-fighters’ strikes (1977 and 2002).
Fire appliances in the United Kingdom. A steam pump truck in use in 1913, St Helens enabling fire-fighters to reach the burning clock tower. The limber for attaching to a horse team is visible stretching to the right. Fire services in the United Kingdom use a variety of fire appliances, which perform a wide range of general and specialised ...
Firefighting equipment stored in a fire engine used by the Toronto Fire Service. A firefighting apparatus (North American English) [ 1 ] or firefighting appliance (UK English) [ 2 ] describes any vehicle that has been customized for use during firefighting operations. These vehicles are highly customized depending on their needs and the duty ...
The Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine Company was an Ohio-based fire truck manufacturer. The company was founded in 1910 by John P Ahrens and Charles H Fox and built its first motorized fire engine in 1911. By the end of the following year production of horse-drawn fire apparatus ceased completely. Since then, over 1500 pieces of fire apparatus were built ...
Peter Pirsch. Products. Firefighting apparatus. West Allis Fire Department 1930 Pirsch fire engine. Peter Pirsch & Sons was a firefighting apparatus manufacturer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States, between 1900 and 1984. It was claimed to be the first producer of modern, motorized fire engines in the United States. [1] [2]
Mack TerraPro. The Mack MC/MR series, also known as the "Cruise-Hauler", is a cabover truck first introduced in 1978. [1] It is of a distinct "set back front axle" design (first seen on the Mack FM), with the driver compartment mounted ahead of the front axle and with a large, flat, divided windscreen covering almost half of the truck's frontal ...