Author Topic: Horse Drawn Aerials (Read 5500 times)

daysleeper47 · « **on:** March 16, 2003, 01:08:39 AM »

1899 Gleason & Bailey Dedrick, 2 horse 55 ft aerial

District5 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 03, 2003, 02:00:54 PM »

Watertown, New York operated this aerial. The apparatus is still carrying leather buckets!

District5 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 17, 2003, 04:33:43 PM »

Rex Hook & Ladder Company of York PA

Box 2565 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 28, 2003, 11:25:09 PM »

Bangor, Maine
Aerial ladder with a 3 horse hitch.

Box 2565 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 12, 2003, 03:36:00 AM »

Cincinnati, Ohio Truck 1
1903 Seagrave
85' Aerial
This aerial was stationed at Headquarters which was in the heart of the Central Business District on 6th Street just west of Vine Street.
Steve Hagy collection.

Box 2565 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 11, 2003, 04:09:41 AM »

This aerial was in service with the Minneapolis, Minnesota F.D. You can just make out the tillerman sitting underneath the ladder!

Box 2565 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 29, 2004, 01:50:03 AM »

Pottstown, Pennsylvania was home to this aerial.

Box 2565 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 19, 2004, 01:58:22 AM »

This beauty was at Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Box 2565 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 17, 2006, 07:31:25 AM »

The aerial with crew at Lima, Ohio.

Box 2565 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 10, 2006, 02:02:02 AM »

Reading, Pennsylvania - Keystone Hook & Ladder Company
Notice the large namesake of the fire company built into the station.

Box 2565 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 20, 2006, 01:38:51 PM »

This ladder was in service at Albany, New York and appears to have been photographed on October 5, 1910.

Box 2565 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 15, 2008, 03:25:25 AM »

1903 Seagrave
75' Aerial
Tom Crowley photo taken at the 2006 SPAAMFAA Summer Convention in Columbus/Reynoldsburg.

Box 2565 · « **Reply #12 on:** December 03, 2008, 05:50:13 PM »

This Hayes aerial ladder was assigned to Truck 4 in Portland, Oregon.
Image from eBay.

Box 2565 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 15, 2009, 06:53:44 PM »

Albany, New York Truck 2
Image from eBay.

Box 2565 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 05, 2011, 08:20:41 AM »

Scranton, Pennsylvania has their aerial posed in front of quarters while Poughkeepsie, New York had their ladder photographed in advance of the Firemen's Convention June 18-20, 1907.
Images from eBay.

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