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Walter M. P. McCall
Softcover
128 pages
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City Service Hook & Ladder Trucks and Quads
$35.99
Long before there were aerial ladder trucks, there were city service hook and ladder trucks. For many years, long-wheelbase, straight-frame city service hook and ladder trucks were standard offerings in the product catalogs of most fire apparatus manufacturers. The last straight service ladder trucks were built in the mid-1950s.The pump-equipped quad rolled on into the 1960s, before it too was eclipsed by the quintuple combination, or “quint.” This book is a photographic tribute to these fondly-remembered hook and ladder trucks and quads built during the golden age of American motor fire apparatus.
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| Weight | 0.6 kg |
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| Dimensions | 27.94 × 21.7 × 1 cm |
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