marque	FORD
modèle	HOWE Equipment
finitions	Fire Engine
année	1 9 4 1
quantité/prix	500 exemplaires / $
carrosserie	engin de lutte contre le feu
moteur/boite	V8

 

<<HALL OF FLAME - FIRE MUSEUM>> DE PHOENIX (Arizona - 2008)

hôte : "Hall Of Flame - Fire Museum" se situe à Phoenix donc en plein coeur de l'Arizona. Il est ouvert depuis 1961 et l'entrée est payante. 4 salles contiennent l'ensemble particulièrement imposant voitures américaines : plus de 90% de l'exposition est d'origine américaine Site internet : particulièrement riche et très complet au https://www.hallofflame.org/index.html photos : webmestre du trombinoscar en janvier 2008

CE QU'EN DIT LE MUSEE

Howe Fire Apparatus built over 400 of these 500 gpm rigs on Ford chassis for the U.S. Navy in World War II.  After the War it was sold as surplus to the small town of Sierra Vista, in the Fry Fire District of southeast Arizona.  There it served for many years.  Its high road clearance convinced the Sierra Vista FD to make it a kind of tanker truck, and they put a 500 gallon water tank in the hose bed to supplement its original 80 gallon tank.  Apparently its original flat head V-8 could not handle an additional two tons of weight, so it was replaced with an engine from a 1963 Ford Thunderbird.  It was donated to the Hall of Flame in 1987 and refurbished by Don Hale a few years later. Its single stage Waterous centrifugal pump still puts out a good stream of water.

PHOTOS DU FORD HOWE FIRE TRUCK 1941

 

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