AUTO-CHEMICAL FIRE ENGINE.
During the present week’s Automobile show at the Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, New York, there was a motor exhibit in the shape of an auto-chemical fire engine. It attracted great attention especially from the fire chiefs and other officers of the New York and adjoining fire departments and from many former volunteer firefighters of the olden time, to whom the machine was a surprise. This special new piece of fire apparatus is being placed upon the market by the Combination Ladder company, of Providence, R. I., and New York City, who have selected for this work, after extensive investigation, the Knox car, manufactured by the Kuox Automobile company of Springfield, Mass., builders of the most successful, heavy and commercial cars in the country. The chassis being furnished by the Knox company, the Combination Ladder company constructs thereon a double-tank chemical engine. The car, as shown at the Garden, is a fourcylinder, forty-horsepower car, having a speed of forty miles per hour, and carrying two thirtyfive-gal. chemical engine tanks, 200 ft. of chemical hose, and all the miscellaneous equipment usually carried upon a chemical fire engine. This new type of firefighting machine, is strictly an up-to-date idea, and attracted a great deal of attention at the Automobile show. Full description and particulars and cuts of this new piece of apparatus will appear in this column later.
During the present week’s Automobile show at the Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, New York, there was a motor exhibit in the shape of an auto-chemical fire engine. It attracted great attention especially from the fire chiefs and other officers of the New York and adjoining fire departments and from many former volunteer firefighters of the olden time, to whom the machine was a surprise. This special new piece of fire apparatus is being placed upon the market by the Combination Ladder company, of Providence, R. I., and New York City, who have selected for this work, after extensive investigation, the Knox car, manufactured by the Kuox Automobile company of Springfield, Mass., builders of the most successful, heavy and commercial cars in the country. The chassis being furnished by the Knox company, the Combination Ladder company constructs thereon a double-tank chemical engine. The car, as shown at the Garden, is a fourcylinder, forty-horsepower car, having a speed of forty miles per hour, and carrying two thirtyfive-gal. chemical engine tanks, 200 ft. of chemical hose, and all the miscellaneous equipment usually carried upon a chemical fire engine. This new type of firefighting machine, is strictly an up-to-date idea, and attracted a great deal of attention at the Automobile show. Full description and particulars and cuts of this new piece of apparatus will appear in this column later.
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