Old Somers VFD NY apparatus

[38ff 250]

All you Somers guys.. I have never seen pictures of this vehicle before, or even heard of it. Anyone know anything about it?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SOMERS-NY-HAS-HOLDEN-FIRE-COMBAT-UNIT-1949-AD-/310396516521?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item484512f8a9

Great dinner, by the way!

[chris498 31]

Westchester's first tanker, had an 800 gallon tank. I believe this served until the 4 Seagrave 70th Anniversary Srs. engines were delivered in 1958.

[Westfield12 65]

Eight dollars? Are they selling the flyer or the truck? I'd say that's the cheapest fire truck ever!

[38ff 250]

It's the flyer

[RES20CUE 40]

Chris498 is correct!

Engine 164 was Westchester's First Tanker with an 800 gallon booster tank and a 500 GPM pump. It was the first piece of apparatus assigned to Amawalk Fire House (back when it was a barn behind the old school house), and the third new apparatus purchased by the Somers Volunteer Fire Department, before the Somers Fire District was formed.

Unfortunately, this is the only rig that I was never able to get a good accounting of, as to why we got rid of it and who it went to, and why we kept the 2 older rigs (1940 & 1943) when the 4 new Seagraves came in 1958.

We also don't have many pictures of it either!

We do have another copy of this same ad in our historical files.