Fire Engines Photos

The Fire department of my early childhood got a new Seagrave triple combination in the early fourties that sold me on Seagrave equipment. It replaced several Ahrens-Fox pumpers. They were kept in reserve.

Added by Dave Frotscher on 16 January 2008.

I can remember taking Fire Training, as a Coast Guard Cadet, with one of these Seagrave pumpers, at the old Royal Canadian Navy Base at Point Edward, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The Base Fire-Hall also included a Seagrave Ladder Truck, of similar looks, also had a pump.
St John's, Newfoundland, also had one, with stainless-steel fittings, for pumping the readily available sea-water.
They were built in Canada, under license, I believe.
Thanks for the memories.
Regards,
Pat_R-B

Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 07 July 2008.

The Canadian fire-trucks were Bickle-Seagrave; as, in 1936, the Bickle brothers' company, Bickle Fire Engines Ltd of Woodstock, Ontario got the Canadian licence to build Seagraves. They also had the licence for Ahrens-Fox fire engines.

In 1956, after bankruptcy by later owners; became King-Seagrave, which eventually closed its doors in 1985.

Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B

Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 15 September 2009.

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