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The ones I drove didn't have keys. Turn on the master switch, hit the starter button, release the air brakes, do what you need to for the transmission (automatic or manual).American fire trucks usually don't have locks.
Leaving out the four wheel drive/non air braked vehicles. those were the days!The ones I drove didn't have keys. Turn on the master switch, hit the starter button, release the air brakes, do what you need to for the transmission (automatic or manual).
MAKE SURE all men are on board and ready and ready to GO! and start moving.
The ones I drove didn't have keys. Turn on the master switch, hit the starter button, release the air brakes, do what you need to for the transmission (automatic or manual).
MAKE SURE all men are on board and ready and ready to GO! and start moving.
The old ones had a buzzer you were supposed to press.Bingo. Crew cab helps for the last bit. Tailboard might be ugly money.
The old ones had a buzzer you were supposed to press.
Didn't do much good if you were falling off.
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Close to our 1955 (in use in the 70s as a spare, if two others were being serviced)
Do you remember the code for the buzzer? Did you have a bar that swung down behind the tailboard riders as well as hand straps, or did the straps go around your torso?Right, the tail-board straps on our P-12s had a few feet of play, you could maybe hit the buzzer if a speed-bump bounced you high enough.
Do you remember the code for the buzzer? Did you have a bar that swung down behind the tailboard riders as well as hand straps, or did the straps go around your torso?
A friend of mine went to work for the Detroit Fire Dept just after WWII, when he got back from flying Spits, Hurricanes, and B-24's. Recall the old fire trucks with separate steering in the back? When he was steering the rear and they came up on a 90 degree corner, he would turn the wheel so that he beat the rest of the truck around the corner and was already straightened out onto the new road when the front of the truck came around the corner.American fire trucks usually don't have locks.
Very good for fire fighter school demonstrations.I asked my friend why they used to say "Hook and Ladder." He explained that a Hook was kind of a long 2X4 with rungs sticking out the sides and a hook at the top. The idea was that you could hook it over the windows of the floor above you, climb up, then haul it up and hook it over the windows of the next floor and proceed on up, a floor at a time. That eliminated the need for long ladders. Sounds dangerous as hell to me.
Tiller type trucks on those hills in SFO?!?!?!?! YOW! Talk about a potential for excitement!