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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
I worked for a guy once whose hobby was restoring old fire engines. He'd have loved this one.
My department sold one of our old engines to a collector. A few years later I was going through our county museum and there it was, on loan from the collector. It was a little disconcerting to see an engine I had driven and worked off of as a “museum piece.”
The old man worked for a custom fire apparatus co, for years, they had guys doing actual gold leaf lettering on the equipment. None of that vinyl crap like today. It was amazing to watch.
Still have 25 or 30 years of Sign Craft mags stacked in my shop and several books of gold in my kit box. Far too shaky to lay gold or pinstripe nowadays tho. Bubbarust
That does not appear to be an engine (no hose connections visible). Probably a hose wagon. Not a truck company, either, with just those two small ladders and no racks showing for more.
My first assignment was to an engine company with a 1947 Maxim triple combination pumper with a 750 gpm, two stage centrifugal pump.
As Bob Hope used to say, Thanks for the memories. . .
My department sold one of our old engines to a collector. A few years later I was going through our county museum and there it was, on loan from the collector. It was a little disconcerting to see an engine I had driven and worked off of as a “museum piece.”
ReplyDeleteThe old man worked for a custom fire apparatus co, for years, they had guys doing actual gold leaf lettering on the equipment. None of that vinyl crap like today. It was amazing to watch.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like Tom Hyland, who, as a sign painter would be familiar with the term "fire apparatus". lol
DeleteMy wife did an extensive article on the fire apparatus gold leafing process when she was the managing editor of SignCraft magazine.
Still have 25 or 30 years of Sign Craft
Deletemags stacked in my shop and several books of gold in my kit box. Far too shaky to lay gold or pinstripe nowadays tho.
Bubbarust
That does not appear to be an engine (no hose connections visible). Probably a hose wagon. Not a truck company, either, with just those two small ladders and no racks showing for more.
ReplyDeleteMy first assignment was to an engine company with a 1947 Maxim triple combination pumper with a 750 gpm, two stage centrifugal pump.
As Bob Hope used to say, Thanks for the memories. . .