Author: marcus

German fire equipment suppliers have always been strongly export-oriented. A Chinese tour group visited the Magirus factory in il am 15.8.1934 held in front of a Magirus-M-50-L aerial ladder.
Magirus export order for Russia. Am 29.1. 1933 three presented themselves …

Interesting photo study of a Magirus turntable ladder for the United Kugellagerfabriken AG fire department, Schweinfurt, With 30 m extension length and K-30 ladder gear, accepted at 29.12. 1938 from the cab of a KS25 for Brandenburg.

The fire police in Berlin put the end 1938 this …

This motorized turntable ladder KL 26 has been 1935 from Metz, Karlsruhe, delivered to the professional fire brigade Kassel. The structure was based on the Daimler-Benz Mercedes-Benz LoD chassis 3500, equipped with the six-cylinder pre-chamber diesel engine OM 67 With 95 PS at 2000 RPM and 7440 cm3 displacement. (15)…

The Reutlingen fire-fighting police chose an inexpensive solution, to get to a motorized ladder vehicle, by using their still fully functional 18 m wooden ladder by Magirus from 1911 to an M-25 chassis from the same manufacturer. Am 18.7. 1937 became this …

On the 13. 3. 1937 This Magirus factory photo is dated, the one KL motorized ladder delivered to the Lippstadt volunteer fire brigade 24+2 shows, which was built on the 70 HP M-30-L chassis from Magirus.

A "car steel ladder 26" – That was the factory designation at that time …

The professional fire brigade (Fire police) Leipzig put a number of heavy vehicles on Büssing chassis into service in the 1930s. In the lower – 1937 in front of the main fire station in Leipzig – The vehicles delivered to date can be seen in the picture. In front those of …

Motor vehicle sprayer KS 25 (Factory-labeled as "car sprayer") on Magirus-M-37-S chassis (Six-cylinder diesel, 90 PS, 7540 cm3 displacement) in a recording from 18.10.1936. While an air foam pump of the type LS IV was installed in front, At the end of the frame there was a centrifugal fire pump of the HP VI model …

Tank syringe on Magirus M 30 S (Six-cylinder diesel, 70 PS, 4559 cm3 displacement), the end 1936 for the works fire brigade of Erla-Maschinenwerk GmbH, Leipzig, was delivered. The vehicle had a 2000 l water tank and a separate foam compound tank with a flexible hose line to the premixer of the 1500 l / min front-end pump.…

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 305 (Six-cylinder carburetor engine, 65 PS 4559 …

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 …