MOTOR FIRE APPARATUS
Linton. Ind., has $4,000 for motor apparatus.
East Summit, N. J., is to have motor apparatus.
Delphos. O., is to motorize its fire apparatus.
Lauraville, Md., is to purchase motor apparatus.
Paris. Tenn., has an appropriation for a motor truck.
Malvern, Pa., housed a new piece of motor apparatus, July 30.
Alliance, Pa., received a Webb motor pumping engine last week.
Ashville. N. C., is to have another Seagrave motor ladder truck.
Beloit. Wis., last week received an Owen motor hose wagon.
Stockbridge. Mass., has ordered a Buick motor hose-chemical wagon.
Chief Butler of Portland. Me., is to have a motor car for his own use.
Gainesville, Tex., is to have an American-La France motor hose-chemical wagon.
Cuylerville, N. Y., has had a large fire and will now purchase motor apparatus.
Truck No. 1, of Woonsocket, R. I., is to be supplied with a new motor for its tractor.
Chief Mack, of Glens Falls, N. Y., was at Cohoes the past week inspecting motor apparatus.
Flint, Mich., will purchase a “lungmotor” and first aid equipment for its fire department.
Joliet, Ill., has contracted for a Robinson triple combination motor pumping engine of 900 gallons capacity.
Ithaca, N. Y., has ordered an AmericanLaFrance motor flying squadron wagon to be delivered by Sept. 1.
Moline, Ill., has contracted for a Robinson 800gallon motor pumping engine and a motor hose wagon, both to cost $12,487.50.
A Robinson motor hose-chemical wagon to carry 2,000 feet of hose and a 40-gallon tank, has been ordered for the Helena, Mont., department.
Boston has ordered a Robinson motor hosechemical wagon, to carry a 40-gallon chemical tank and 1,200 feet of hose, and a front drive engine tractor.
There will be a large display of motor fire apparatus at the convention of the Western Pennsylvania Firemen’s Association at Connellsville, August 10-14.
Lieut. Henry Johnson, of the Nahant, Mass., fire department, has invented a self-starter for motor fire apparatus, which experts say possesses marked merit.
The Milwaukee fire department now has is pieces of motor apparatus, including 3 hose wagons, 2 squadron wagons, 7 chiefs’ runabouts, 1 touring car and five trucks.
A new motor pumping engine at Joliet, Ill., this week was officially tested by an insurance underwriter of Chicago. The test was satisfactory to the underwriter and the fire department.
After keeping it a secret, the members of the Fire Company No. 1, of Colwyn, Pa., surprised the residents of that borough by announcing that they had purchased motor apparatus, the housing of which was celebrated July 26.
Ex-Battalion Chief Bert Fisher, of Chicago, who is secretary of the National Firemen’s Association, is now with the Knox Motor Company, of Springfield, Mass., and attached to its Oiicago office, at 1458 South Michigan avenue.
Chelsea, Mass., has ordered another Robinson triple combination motor engine. Its first one, purchased a year ago rendered excellent service at the Salem conflagration. A Robinson motor common ladder truck lias also been ordered.
所有的电机装置在韦斯特切斯特,Pa。,是马king slower time on the tests than formerly, as the drivers grow more careful and realize that the greater speed is not necessary, but even with this about the longest run within the borough limits is made in time under three minutes, most of the boxes being reached in two minutes from the time the whistle is sounded at the electric light plan.
In designing the new Goodyear S. V. Truck tire a feature sought for was economy to the truck owner. The first and most noticeable item is the total absence of steel fastenings of any kind. The first cost on fastenings for a truck tire of the Demountable type ranges from $3 to $7 per wheel, and on the old style pressedon type, the supplemental band may cost from $3 to $9 per wheel. Taking the most popular size tires, this charge for steel equipment represents about ten per cent, of the total cost.
此页面上的插图显示了新的知更鸟on steamer tractor attached to a double 40-gallon chemical engine. This tractor, manufactured by the Robinson Fire Apparatus Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Mo., is neat, compact and powerful and is equipped with six cylinder motor and heavy Monarch transmission. The motor, clutch and transmission are mounted in the frame in a perfectly normal position. The drive is double chain through a heavy bevel pinion to the driving wheels. The speed is 30 miles an hour.
Motor Engine 13, of Birmingham, Ala., at the factory where it was made was known as “job 13.” It was shipped from the factory to Birmingham on the thirteenth of the month in car 13613. The factory representative who came west with the machine paid $13 for his ticket. On the way down he was assigned to berth 13 in the Pullman. On the initial trial in Birmingham thirteen men rode on it. It is now in Station No. 13, and is numbered car 13. It has never been in a serious accident, and there is nothing to that old hoodoo as far as this motor is concerned.
Covington, one of the most progressive manufacturing cities in Kentucky, and among the first to adopt Commission form of Government, has awarded a contract to the United States Motor Truck Company of that city for fire truck equipment. Her sister city o f Newport, “just across the Licking,” a rival in manufacturing industries, also recently motorized her firefighting equipment by installing the same make of tractors. This company’s t w o and three ton trucks are used extensively in the service of City Water Works and Fire Departments throughout the country and many contracts come to them fr o in City Commismissioners and Councilmen because the experience of others has proven them serviceable and satisfactory.
General Lucio Blanco, commanding Cinstitutionalist forces in Mexico, drove his war car through the thickest of the Matmoros battle. This car was equipped with Firestone Non-Skid tires, which were badly mutilated by the hail of bullets from Federal sharp shooters, but the tough fabric was not penctarted, although a half from a machine gun cut a broad gash in one of the treads. General Blanco gave the tires credit for carrying him safely out of the danger zone. A report of the part these tires played in the above scrimmage came to the ears of Captain Alfred Aloe, Depot Quartermaster of the U. S. Army in Galveston, who got in touch with the Firestone Company and, although he did not want pneumatic tires because of the danger of puncture, he ordered Firestone Solid Tires with quick removable rims. This led to other departments taking up the matter, and at the present time Firestone Tires have become widely distributed in U. S. Army service. Russia has a number of their army trucks equipped with Firestones. Some time ago, a truck was inped to St. Petersburg, when the report came that the Russian War Department was in the market for motor equipment. The Czar’s War Minister and his engineers gave the truck a thorough try-out. The tires came in for especial consideration, and considering the condition of Russian roads and the small cobble stones with which the streets of St. Petersburg are paved, they made a showing which resulted in the adoption of Firestone tires.
