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In 1951, the Seagrave Corporation marked it's 70th year in the fire apparatus industry with the introduction of its first all-new postwar fire apparatus design.
Seagrave's "70th Anniversary Series", as the new model was known, enjoyed one of the longest continuous production runs in U.S. fire apparatus history - 19 years.
It was intended to compete with American La France’s radical cab forward / midship engine Type 700, but the Anniversary Model differed little from its predecessors of the 1930s and 40s beyond styling.
Its engine, pump, and hose carrying capabilities were the same.
But the Anniversary Series was very well received in the fire service because of the high quality of its construction and the reliability of the drive train and pump.
Almost 2,000 were built over the next dozen years.
Twenty eight Quads were built. Quads were popular in small towns which had relatively few fires and which sought to combine the roles of a ladder truck and engine.
A quad carried at least 200 linear feet of ground ladders, many more ladders than the more common “triple” engine, which usually carried a single extension ladder and a roof ladder.
It also carried a full size pump, a booster tank, and at least 1200 feet of large diameter hose.
Most of these trucks stayed in service until the early 1980s, when they were refurbished and placed in reserve.
This quad was used by the fire department of Oak Lawn, Illinois. This quad stayed in service until the early 1980s, when it was refurbished and placed in reserve.
Its original V-12 gasoline engine was replaced by an equally powerful 8 cylinder Cummins diesel.
Oak Lawn proudly displayed an "ISO 1" rating. Less than 40 fire departments in the United States have this rating.
A consortium of insurance companies gives a rating, from 1 to 15, to every municipality in the U.S. that applies for fire insurance.
Class 1 has the lowest rates because its fire protection system is judged to be the best possible.
I had made a lot of photos of this model that I had seen in the famous HALL OF FLAME in Phoenix (Az).
A 6 years old model totaly revisited for Poser. It appears that I am working better and better after my 15 years of 3d modeling pratice! My "old" models are not perfect and they need a lot of work to become like I need my models to be now!
The doors can be opened, the steering wheels and the wheels turn together like in reality, the doors glasses can be moved up or down, the wheels can rotate and the wipers can...wipe the windscreen.
Comments (15)
DocMikeB
Excellent model of a beautiful historical fire truck!!
Domi48
P... même les essuie-glace! Tu as vraiment besoin de glander maintenant...
giulband
Fantastic model well rendered !!!
Kratoonz
Great renders and interesting history
buffalosoldier
very well done
zoren
beautiful machine great work....
stnaper
Love Them Fire Engines and you did a great job on this "55". Well done my friend. Stan
mikeerson
I read you have all these animated things on this model.... I don't know how to make models, so I don't have any idea how technical it gets.... I've suggested to you a few times of making the "smashed" auto - taking your model of a good car and making morph dials so to can dent up the body parts from miner to major.... so, along those same lines, would love to see the hose on the truck be able to have morphs so it could roll our and like a poser snake be able to bend it in many places... and then, you'd have to have a dial that made a "buldge" in the hose and a dial that could take that bulge down the hose as if the water is coming out.... engine looks great.... you should of been in my truck a couple weeks back... I got stuck at a light for over 30 minutes - it was a funeral convoy..... there was every kind of Fire Truck you could of imagined.... firefighters came from all around the state of colorado to attend a firefighter's funeral.... How'd he die? .... bad, bad luck..... a dumpster was on fire and it was blowing flames up in the air... the firefighter went on the roof to make sure there weren't any ambers.... he fell through a skylight.
Maxidyne
A stunning model Alain. I know of the American La France engines but not so much about this one. It's design and reliability shows by it long service history that this was a superior engine. You've done a great job of updating this one and with such an impressive back catalogue i'm sure we'll see more in time.
ontar1
Fantastic modeling!
arlivre
Hi there Alain ! Fantastic modelling, texturing ...the lot as always ! Big hugs from Portugal Joao
gaius
Dire que tu es doué et que c'est superbe est rester loin de la vérité ! C'est bluffant...que de détails, quel réalisme...moi qui ai souvent photographié des camions de pompiers et autres dans des villes (plus ou moins) fantômes, j'apprécie pleinement ton talent.
Freethinker56
Impressive work,well done.
P-LACALMONTIE
Modèle fantastique et pas pompier. Le détail et la précision est impressionnante ! Superbe job Alain.
figharo
Beutiful and more, it has a magical quality that a child would just love -- strange, for such a utilitarian vehicle, but that attests to the good design. Wonderfully done...