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 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...
Dec 9, 2019
Triple Combination Fire Engine Ex – Sierra Vista, AZ Howe Fire Apparatus built over 400 of these 500 gpm rigs on Ford chassis for the U.S. Navy in World War II. After the War it was sold as surplus to the small town of Sierra Vista, in the Fry Fire District of...
Dec 9, 2019
Model T Fire Engine Ex – Germantown, IL Ford / Howe Model T Pumper. 1918. The Howe Fire Apparatus Company adapted its fire pump and booster tank to a Ford Model T chassis for several hundred of these modest little pumpers for the U.S. Army in World War...
