Seagrave Aerial Truck at Oakland

Seagrave Aerial Truck at Oakland

An illustration on this page shows an 85foot Seagrave aerial truck recently put into service at Oakland, Cal. This is one of the “Four-wheel drive” trucks, equipped with Sewell cushion wheels and a 90 horse-power motor. At the present time Oakland has fourteen pieces of motor-driven apparatus, twentynine pieces horse-drawn. During the past year one combination chemical and hose on a two-ton Packard chassis, and the Seagrave aerial truck illustrated above, have been purchased—Sewell wheels having been “specified” on both jobs. A new Ahrens-Fox pumping engine is about to be installed, and Mr. Elliott Whitehead, chief of the department, is interested in replacing all horse-drawn apparatus with “motor-driven” as rapidly as funds available will permit. Oakland is proud of their fire fighting apparatus and the organization behind it, which has been developed to its present high standard of efficiency through the effort of Chief Whitehead, who has always taken a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the men and equipment under his jurisdiction. Under Chief Whitehead's supervision at present are twenty-two fire stations housing twenty-eight companies and equipment consisting of thirteen pumping engines, sixteen combination chemical and hose wagons, six plain hose wagons and nve service trucks. Oakland with less than 209.000 population is in the front ranks of progress along with some of the larger eastern cities.

An illustration on this page shows an 85foot Seagrave aerial truck recently put into service at Oakland, Cal. This is one of the “Four-wheel drive” trucks, equipped with Sewell cushion wheels and a 90 horse-power motor. At the present time Oakland has fourteen pieces of motor-driven apparatus, twentynine pieces horse-drawn. During the past year one combination chemical and hose on a two-ton Packard chassis, and the Seagrave aerial truck illustrated above, have been purchased—Sewell wheels having been “specified” on both jobs. A new Ahrens-Fox pumping engine is about to be installed, and Mr. Elliott Whitehead, chief of the department, is interested in replacing all horse-drawn apparatus with “motor-driven” as rapidly as funds available will permit. Oakland is proud of their fire fighting apparatus and the organization behind it, which has been developed to its present high standard of efficiency through the effort of Chief Whitehead, who has always taken a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the men and equipment under his jurisdiction. Under Chief Whitehead's supervision at present are twenty-two fire stations housing twenty-eight companies and equipment consisting of thirteen pumping engines, sixteen combination chemical and hose wagons, six plain hose wagons and nve service trucks. Oakland with less than 209.000 population is in the front ranks of progress along with some of the larger eastern cities.