Jul 12, 2025
Ford Model T Chief’s Car 1926 Manufactured by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 to 1927, the Model T, often known as the “Tin Lizzie,” was one of the first widely affordable mass-produced automobiles. Many Model Ts were adapted for various uses by fire departments,...
Dec 10, 2019
Type 400 Senior Fire Engine Used in Burlington, IA The earliest motorized American fire engines, which appeared around 1910, used an engine called the T-Head: a single row of four to six pistons were cast in sets of two in the shape of a large “T”. One side of the...
Dec 10, 2019
“Baby Stutz” 350 GPM Engine Modified in 1930 by the New Stutz Fire Apparatus Company The famous auto maker and racer also built fire engines. Stutz began his fire engine business in Indianapolis in 1919 and built engines and ladder trucks until the Crash...
Dec 10, 2019
Triple Combination Fire Engine Ex – Pullman, WA FD This engine was delivered to the Volunteer Fire Department of Pullman, Washington, where it was in first line service until 1961, when it was placed out of service and sold to a retired Pullman firefighter. He...
Dec 9, 2019
Triple Combination Fire Engine Ex – Slinger, WI Rural communities purchased rigs like this for use by their fire departments. Built on a Ford chassis with the famous “flat head” V-8 engine, with a hose bed, booster tank and pump by the Pirsch Fire Apparatus...
