Fire Apparatus and Equipment of the New Jersey Forest Fire Service

History

Rieth, John

Regan, Tim

Americas

Blurb

This book takes you back the quaint Jersey Shore towns displaying the vintage Fire Apparatus that was protecting this area in the sixties. Bright, colorful images are displayed with a very creative graphic design. A must have for the collector of fire truck memorabilia.

Jersey Shore Fire Apparatus Classic Thruth' 60's

Business & Money

Reyan, Tim

Rowc, John

Industries

Jersey Shore Fire Pubns

Enjoy more than 400 photographs of the rugged and varied equipment used to fight wild fires. This includes brush rigs, airplanes, helicopters, converted military vehicles, and much more. The many up-close and detailed shots of the numerous vehicles, machines and airplanes used to save our forests and wildlife, will thrill enthusiasts.

Wildland Fire Apparatus: 1940-2001 Photo Gallery

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Ertel Publishing, Inc.

Tanker trucks, also known as tenders, are used by more than 65% of all fire departments across America. Early tankers were converted from oil, fuel, milk, or chemical tank trucks. Some of these converted units were semi or tractor-trailer trucks, others were smaller, local oil or milk delivery trucks. Large fire apparatus manufacturers started to manufacture water tanker fire trucks in the late 1950s, but it wasn't until the 1970s that custom-made water tankers became popular. Shown are tankers by all the major and minor fire apparatus manufacturers and regional builders, among conversions built by local shops. Included are tankers from Mack, Ford, GMC, Chevy, International, White, Brockway, Diamond T &amp; Reo, Autocar, Kenworth, Peterbuilt, Freightliner, Volvo, UD, Marmom, Western Star, Crane Carrier Corp., FWD, Oshkosh, AMC, and others.

Firefighting Tanker Trucks and Tenders: A Fire Apparatus Photo Gallery (A Photo Gallery)

The diverse Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation, later named FMC Corporation, made chemical and agricultural equipment dating back to the late 1800s. The Bean Spray Pump Company was an FMC division, changed to the John Bean Mfg. Co. in 1915 and sometime in the late 1930s an orchard owner successfully used his dependable John Bean sprayer to extinguish a neighbor’s house fire. This accidental success story led to the development of the high pressure fog system which helped put out fires during WWII, and soon led to the first High Pressure Fog Fire Fighter body that could be put on any truck chassis. Their success propelled them to become one of the revered names in the fire apparatus industry through the post-war years until their slow weaning of the Bean name and eventual demise in the early 1990s. Although primarily used by rural fire departments as an economical fire engine, many large cities even acquired FMC/Bean apparatus. Portrayed with historic black and white and contemporary color images, this book covers the whole lineup from slide-in pumper and tank combos, to custom-built brush trucks, tankers, commercial and custom chassis pumpers, and even aerials, snorkels and ladder towers.

John Bean and FMC Fire Apparatus

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