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Micael
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Old and new fire vehicles

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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
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Thanks for posting this. Nice way to honor the past.
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Pdf27
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Had a very early New York fire engine racing in the village recently.
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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.
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Pdf27 wrote: Sat May 31, 2025 2:31 pm Had a very early New York fire engine racing in the village recently.
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That’s a cool one.
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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...
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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.
War is less costly than servitude. The choice is always between Verdun and Dachau. - Jean Dutourd
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