Author: marcus

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. Die daneben …

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 …

Electromobile Magirus steam sprayer from the Cologne professional fire brigade 2000 l / min Pumping time, the originally 1904 Delivered on a self-propelled steam-powered chassis and in years 1913 was converted in our own workshop onto an electric chassis from the Cologne-based electric vehicle works Heinrich Scheele, since steam power is the source of propulsion …

Gasoline-powered motorized sprayer with 1500 l / min centrifugal fire pump with rear on Adler 3 t chassis with 47 HP engine power. The vehicle was 1913 put into service by the Leipzig fire brigade.

 

Motorized fire engine of the Dortmund professional fire brigade at the beginning of the 1920s. Left to right: hose cart up …

The spectrum ranges from the many on their own through the weirs themselves or through smaller local crafts- and body shops, but partly also through the fire fighting equipment industry, Models converted into emergency vehicles, to those wagons intended for export …

Two extraordinary rarities, built at the end of the 30s by the fire equipment supplier Fischer in Görlitz. 3-tonne Büssing NAG type 30 chassis were used (Four cylinder diesel engine, 70 PS, 3895 cm3 displacement), and it is well known that the products of this manufacturer were only very sporadically represented by fire departments. During the right …