Ye olde fire engine operation equipment 2 by goodoleboy
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Captured 10/7/17 at the Los Angeles County Fire Department museum in Bellflower, California.
I have no idea what this particular equipment was used for vis-a-vis the fire engines of that long ago era. It may have been attached train-like to the rear of the fire engine itself, serving as an auxiliary adjunct.
Comments (7)
miwi
Again a wonderful photo sequence of old fire engines; excellent shots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MagikUnicorn
eekdog
Mega old and top notch restoration, cool shots.. Fave/like..
RodS
Beautiful photos of this apparatus. I'd guess it's a pump - the firemen would use the two long handles on the sides, rocking them up and down to pump water to the hoses. I've seen some old photos of this type of pump being used.
steve2
Beautiful photo of a beautiful machine.
NobbyC
Cool image!!!
anahata.c
of all your wild and visually symphonic fire engine shots, this had to be the weirdest "add-on-vehicle" of them all. At first I thought this was a coffin: But then, why would a coffin have a huuuuuge pipe coming out of it and ending, up front? (Exhaust? a strange periscope?) This must carry water or similar...
The top 2 shots are cornucopias: These engines give you the chance to explore rhythmic compression, the way you get forms all jammed together, making jazz. (Your padlocks come to mind.) They sing and dance in this series. And you have a fine linear sense too, the way the lines of this vehicle lines up with the lines of the wall and other engines, etc. In 2, the 'casket' is the image's ground, above which all those background engines float These are wonderful visual concoctions.
3 and 4 bring us much closer to the vehicle. Yeah, maybe it's a pump, with water inside. I don't know. But 3's top syncs up with the line of the frame; and angles out as we move down the shot. Fine work. And the 4th shot lets us see the back plate (nice plate!) with those beautiful brass fixtures. This has to be for water-hoses. A beautiful collection, Harry, of something I would never have associated with fire engines. And shot number 3 is awash in wonderful perspective lines and converging angles.