by Museum Admin | Dec 10, 2019
In the summer of 2001 we received the donation of a 1952 Van Pelt fire engine from the fire department of Timberline – Fernwood, Arizona. This community lies a few miles north of Flagstaff, on the main highway to the Grand Canyon. The Flagstaff FD originally... 
by Museum Admin | Dec 9, 2019
Mack built over 24,000 Model A’s, about 300 of which were fire engines. The rest were sold as over the road trucks. The Model A was popular with volunteer fire departments. Its 510 cubic inch “Thermodyne” gasoline engine’s 180 horsepower is more than adequate for... 
by Museum Admin | Dec 9, 2019
This unit has a 500 gallon tank with compartments for wet water and Class B foam. It uses technology introduced by the John Bean Company in the 1930s to spray fruit orchards with insecticides. Bean adapted its high pressure piston pumps to fire apparatus around 1938,... 
by Museum Admin | Dec 9, 2019
After World War II Willys redesigned its famous military Jeep to a more refined configuration, launching its civilian mode as the “CJ” (Civilian Jeep). The company sold several hundred CJ2s to the Howe Fire Apparatus Company, which converted the Jeep to a small fire... 
by Museum Admin | Dec 9, 2019
Seagrave copied the ideas of the English Fire Service in its design of this fire engine. During the 1920s many English firemen were thrown from their engines in accidents or collisions with other vehicles. The English responded with bus – like fire...