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Kent D. Parrish
Softcover
128 pages
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Fire Trucks of the 1960s and 1970s: An Illustrated History
$39.99
During the 1960s and 1970s, the fire apparatus industry saw unprecedented revolution, innovation, and parity. The long admired conventional models gave way to the contemporary archetypes that are the genesis of today’s fire trucks. Just as disco and the lava lamp became all the societal rage, the fire service saw its own fads and trends. A new generation of aggressive fire apparatus manufacturers led by Pierce and Emergency-One began to overtake their forefathers and the pool of builders producing high quality apparatus in numbers became considerably more populated. This volume highlights the fire trucks of the Swinging Sixties and the Groovy Seventies!
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| Weight | 0.483 kg |
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| Dimensions | 27.9 × 21.6 × 1.27 cm |
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