Gerstenslager

[Box 2565]

Northern Hills Fire District at Cincinnati OH
1972 Ford/Gerstenslager
Rescue Squad
#F71 18
This fire department no longer exists.  Springfield Township formed a municipal department which included Northern Hills and the New Burlington F.D.  Steve Hagy photo.

[X Chief 1]

Gerstenslager was founded in 1860 in Wooster, Ohio - - started the business that we know in 1951 - - they went out of business in 1987 but I don't know why.
XChief 1

[wfd44]

Warren, Ohio
1964 GMC Squad

Bob Studer photo

1969 NOT 1964

[Big Sky Rural FD]

Downers Grove FD
Downers Grove, Illinois

1963 IH Gerstenslager, Squad 362
photographer unknown

[Bklyn Phil]

 Boston 1964 Mack / Gerstenslager
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2003, 11:26:14 PM »

It's not a Gertie. It's an Approved.

Please allow me to suggest that the following pictures of Boston's 1964 Mack B rescue does not have a Gerstenslager body. The tip-off is the comment that it has it's a New York style rescue truck. FDNY (and NYPD) used Approved Fire Apparatus (from Long Island) for their Rsq or Emergency Service Division vehicles. I remember seeing them a lot as I grew up in NYC from 1939 on. Here are some links:
Boston FD RSQ
https://bostonfirehistory.org/fire-companies/rescue-co-squads-fire-companies-2/rescue-company-fire-companies/
"May 12, 1964 – Company received a new apparatus, a Mack/Gerstenshlager ‘New York-style’ rescue truck, Serial # B85F-1488, Shop # 303. "
Many fire buffs have mis-identified this rig.
What's hard to find these days are fotos of FDNY Mack B R1 with it's Approved body. I'm still looking.

Also see http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/l/lacey/lacey.htm (The predecessor. I'll post it to the Mack Rescue thread)
http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/l/lacey/lacey.htm

Youngstown Fire Forum on Mack Rescue
http://yngfire.com/index.php/topic,7926.msg95440.html#msg95440

Youngstown Fire Forum on Gerstenslager
http://yngfire.com/index.php/topic,2013.msg93916.html#msg93916

Coachbuilt article on Gerstenslager
http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/g/gerstenslager/gerstenslager.htm

Phil, Bklyn

[Bklyn Phil]

Found on Pinterest
1972 GMC Gerstenslager Mobile Command Post
 Lansing Area Search and Rescue Ground Team

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/43980533846531722/

Phil, Bklyn

[Bklyn Phil]

Found on Pinterest
1959 WLF Gerstenslager Rsq, Snyder FD, Amherst NY
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/824229169274875171/

From the Snyder FD website
The Snyder Fire Department provides fire, rescue and emergency medical service to approximately 20,000 residents in a six square mile area in the Town of Amherst, New York, a first ring suburb of the City of Buffalo, Erie County .
For more information about the history of the Snyder Fire Department visit:
http://yourfirstdue.com/manager/data/1412100001/File/h4-8-17.pdf
 This reports vehicles purchased e.g., a 1925 Ahrens Fox (NFI) on p.6, and p.9 where it is a trade-in for a 1942 Buffalo quad. The Fox is in the upper RH corner of their home page


Add'l Rsq from Pinterest
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/824229169274875171/visual-search/?x=1&y=66&w=553&h=276

[Bklyn Phil]

Found on the web

Ford C Gerstenslager North Point - Edgemere VFD Baltimore County

http://www.npevfd26.org

Phil Bklyn

[Bklyn Phil]

See posting 47 - Ford Gertie from the Potomac Fire Co

Here is a Ford C from the Potomac Fire Co
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d0/df/0a/d0df0a3df467b681e64d11de12ebd67b.jpg

Phil, Bklyn

[brucobuff]

See posting 47 - Ford Gertie from the Potomac Fire Co

Here is a Ford C from the Potomac Fire Co
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d0/df/0a/d0df0a3df467b681e64d11de12ebd67b.jpg

Phil, Bklyn

A Virginia McLaughlin photo of a 1986 Ford C-8000/Rescue Systems Inc. (RSI) rig replaced  in 2011 by a rebuilt Pierce Quantum/Saulsbury from Burke,VA.

[Bklyn Phil]

Thanks Brucobuff. So many pix on the web are lacking photog ID.

Here's another view of the bus style Gertie posted by GA Dave (#31 in 2012) Of the Natrona Hts Emergency Services vehicle.
GMC Gertie Hilltop Hose Co 3 Natrona Hts PA
https://harrisontwp.com/emergency-services/

Phil, Bklyn

[brucobuff]

Thanks Brucobuff. So many pix on the web are lacking photog ID.




Phil, Bklyn

In this case it is reasonable to assume that you reposted the same photo that I posted on this site in the RSI thread back in December, 2010.
Obviously someone right-clicked that image, and posted it out on the net where you apparently found it. It was probably Pinterest, which mostly consists of purloined images from other websites. This is one of the risks of posting in a free use site such as YFF. This is the main reason I don't post much of my own stuff.

[Bklyn Phil]

Yes. What I do now is review the entire thread on a particular subject to make sure it hasn't been posted B4.

Phil, Bklyn

[Captmjm]

Found on the web

Ford C Gerstenslager North Point - Edgemere VFD Baltimore County

http://www.npevfd26.org

Phil Bklyn

That is a 1968 Ford/Swab, but a great picture, I've never seen that one. It was just on an online auction in January, I'll post pictures.

[halligan401]

  does   anyone  know  or  have  a  estimate  of  the  boDy  height   and  interior  height  of  the  FORD  C-600    RESCUE   HILER VFD  FAYETTE  CO.  PA   just  curious   also   99  inch  wb   must  have  been  tricky  driving  ?