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
Old and new fire vehicles
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Re: Old and new fire vehicles
Thanks for posting this. Nice way to honor the past.
Re: Old and new fire vehicles
Had a very early New York fire engine racing in the village recently.


War is less costly than servitude. The choice is always between Verdun and Dachau. - Jean Dutourd
Re: Old and new fire vehicles
Thanks, yeah it is nice like that.
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Re: Old and new fire vehicles
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...
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...
If you cannot see the wood for the trees, deploy LIDAR.
Re: Old and new fire vehicles
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