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Maynard Fire Department Ladder Truck

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Title

Maynard Fire Department Ladder Truck

Description

Photograph taken at the Fire Station at 1 Summer Street.

This is a 1963 Peter Pirsch Ladder Truck and was Maynard’s second ladder truck.

Firefighter Ed Murphy on left and Captain Leonard ‘Mac’ McKenna on right.

Peter Pirsch began building horse-drawn ladder wagons in 1900 with a motor-driven apparatus debuting in 1908. Pirsch became one of the leading builders of aerial ladders in the 1930s and was the first aerial ladder with a hydro-mechanical hoist. Pirsch was one of the leading builders of fire apparatus after World War Two. In 1961 Pirsch introduced its own cab-forward model, dubbed the Safety Cab, which you can see in our photograph. Pirsch went out of business in 1986,

Creator

Oliver (Swat) Warila

Date

ca 1970

Contributor

Bruce Warila
Identifications supplied by Gerry Byrne

Identifier

2014.701

Format

Scanned negative: mhs-2014.701-2014B-032-2173.jpg

Source

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

4x5 negative, monochrome

Storage

VF142
SU9-1