Month: February 2016

We could still defend ourselves in the 1930s, here especially factory fire brigades, build their fire engines using the open construction method. In part, this was done for cost reasons. Above, a vehicle from the Bayerische Motoren-Werke AG fire department, Munich, on Magirus M …

First the extremely harsh winter of the year 1928/29 brought the knowledge, that closed vehicle superstructures were urgently required, also for fire fighting vehicles, to protect the teams. One of the first weirs, who put this requirement into practice, was the Berlin professional fire brigade, …

This 1932 Automobile sprayer built by Magirus on a Magirus M-40-S low-frame chassis was part of an order for six identical vehicles, which the professional fire brigade in Munich awarded this body builder. The vehicles had 1500 l / min centrifugal fire pumps in the rear and were for 11 Man crew designed. The openly executed, pneumatic …

Engine sprayer as a crew car with attached gun mount on Daimler-Marienfelde, Typ DC 3c (35 PS, 5490 cm3 displacement, 30 km / h top speed, Kardanantrieb), the Berlin fire brigade (Fire fighting train Oberschöneweide), Year of construction approx. 1917.

Fire brigade of the Lüneburg volunteer fire brigade at the beginning of the 1930s. From the right: …

Vehicles of the Düsseldorf factory fire brigade Henkel in a photo taken in front of the fire brigade building in the late 1920s. On the left an engine sprayer on a Daimler-Marienfelde-DC-3-dF chassis (45 PS, 7234 cm3 displacement, 30 km / h top speed) with 1500 l / min rear pump and Metz body. The turntable ladder DL shown next to it 25 originates …

The conversion work on these two vehicles was also carried out by Fischer in Görlitz. There's a Buick upstairs 15/95, model 57 (former four-door sedan sedan), listen below 8, 16/80 PS, Type 375 (Eight-cylinder carburetor engine, 80 PS, 3950 cm3 displacement, 100 km / h top speed, …

Vehicle conversions, whether in-house or through a body shop, have always been the order of the day at fire departments. In the 20s and 30s, many weirs used many heavy cars with a correspondingly high payload and power reserve as an entry point …

Automobile syringe with 1000 l / min rear pump from the Bochum fire department, recorded at the beginning of the 20s. A Benz-Gaggenau model of the type served as the chassis 2 CN (Four-cylinder carburetor engine, 40 PS), and the construction came from Metz. The vehicle had already been introduced on a trial basis at that time, …

Mercedes-Daimler DC 3 dF (45 PS, 7234 cm3 displacement, 30 km / h top speed. Kardanantrieb) as a motor injection 1500-1/ min-Erhardt & Schmer rear pump from the year 1922.

From Magirus, Ulm, Automobile syringe on 3-tonne NAG produced for the Danzig fire department(Neue Automobil AG)-chassis (31 PS, …

Engine sprayer of the plant fire brigade of the South German automobile factory in Gaggenau (Baden), later Benz-Gaggenau, from 1910, on SL-10 3-t chassis with four-cylinder carburettor type R engine 6 (6450 cm3 displacement, 35/40 PS). The vehicle built by Metz had an 800 liter centrifugal fire pump in the rear. Usual with the models …

The Braunschweig truck manufacturer Büssing has always been an outsider among the fire services. Here is a rare four-cylinder, 40 hp, Büssing V engine, 51 with rear pump from the year 1913. Noteworthy are those that appear downright luxurious for a fire engine, leather-upholstered bench seats.

Magirus factory photo from …