Vintage Westchester apparatus

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A friend of mine passed away a few months ago and his family gave me his collection of photos. There are boxes filled with photos, negatives, slides and manufacturer delivery photos. Going through it and scanning the good stuff I see there is some Westchester stuff. I'm going to put the good quality stuff up in this thread. He did a lot of photo buying/ trading so if there is a photographers name on the slide I will post it along with the image. First up is a 1964 ALF tiller from Hasting on Hudson.....Ron Bogardus photo.

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Hastings on Hudson Eng.3 a Seagrave Anniversary series Engine.

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Cool Photos!

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Village of Mamaroneck 1972 Mack CF Engine 41 photo Glenn Vincent

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Village of Mamaroneck 1963 Seagrave Engine 39 photo by Glenn Vincent

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Next time New Rochelle, White Plains, and Peekskill.

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Great shots!

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I love Maxims, and the semi open cab looked great especially on tillers. Here is a delivery photo from Maxim of New Rochelle Ladder 2.

What would be interesting is if someone has a photo of this rig towards the end of its career. We can compare the different looks it had from untouched delivery fresh to years of fire duty and additions and modifications made by the department that ran it.

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Another great looking Maxim tiller. White Plains Ladder 1. I believe this pic was taken at a parade in Nassau County. I guess back in the day rigs from Westchester and Nassau would attend each other parades more then they do today. Love the "bubble" window in the tiller cab.

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Besides Maxim I think Mack made some of the best looking fire apparatus. Some people think the American LaFrance 700 series "bathtub" look is the "definitive" American fire engine, I think the Mack B model is. It had its lines in the right places for sure and was the best looking fire engine model ever, in my opinion. Here is Peekskill Centennial Hose Co # 4 semi open cab. Again this was taken I believe at a parade in Nassau county. No photo credit for this and the White Plains rigs. M.Cap collection.

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Port Chester Seagrave tiller. This rig must have seen a lot of fire duty in its time. It just went out of service a few years back correct? Gotta love the open tiller cab and to think the tillerman was still tooling around the village in an open tiller cab in the 2000's Cool. Photo by Mike Martinelli

Next time Pleasantville "patrols" and some more Macks.

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I love Maxims, and the semi open cab looked great especially on tillers. Here is a delivery photo from Maxim of New Rochelle Ladder 2.

What would be interesting is if someone has a photo of this rig towards the end of its career. We can compare the different looks it had from untouched delivery fresh to years of fire duty and additions and modifications made by the department that ran it.

Basicly it was untouched. Below is a pic of it with the replacement Seagrave Ladder 12 (1984 I believe)

Its last day in NR found it parked behind Sta. #5. We helped a volunteer crew from northern Vermont get ready to drive it to its new home. They were so thrilled as it was the 1st ladder they would ever have in there county. They drove it home in a snow storm, changing frozen drivers & tillermen every 20 minutes or so.

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port chesters ladder went out in 2007-8. I had the pleasure of driving it for years and loved that rig and yes it saw more than its share of fires over the years

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I'm "assuming" this is Pleasantville Westchester...but you know what happens when you do that. ALF factory photo.

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Pleasantville Hahn patrol.

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Mack Factory photo Port Chester Hook and Ladder.

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Mack factory photo Hastings on Hudson

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I'm "assuming" this is Pleasantville Westchester...but you know what happens when you do that. ALF factory photo.

Yes, That is Pleasantville, NY. 1958 American LaFrance. The company has an almost identical photo in its company room. The bell from the ALF carried over to the Hahn in the next photo, but was too tall for the current Ferrara.

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Croton on Hudson classic Mack rescue.

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Ossining Mack CF Neil Van Deusen photo.

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Tarrytown Mack CF Glenn Vincent photo.

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I really love this style of Mack C Rescue Rig (The BEST was the Old Mount Vernon FD Mack C Box Rescue)

Croton on Hudson classic Mack rescue.

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Hastings on Hudson Protection Engine company B model Mack.

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One of my favorite all time Westchester rigs. Mamaroneck Seagrave tiller. Anyone out there have any good stories about this rig?

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Classic Millwood Kenworth

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Didn't the Yonkers Fire Department aquire this rig from Hastings back in the 1980's or thereabouts, and used it as a reserve rig?

Hastings on Hudson Protection Engine company B model Mack.

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Awesome pictures man - any chance ya found anything from Rockland County?

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One of my favorite all time Westchester rigs. Mamaroneck Seagrave tiller. Anyone out there have any good stories about this rig?

Drove it off it's jacks as the 4 story building fell into the street at the Sea land fire Feb 1984 8 alarm's Port Chester ny

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Didn't the Yonkers Fire Department aquire this rig from Hastings back in the 1980's or thereabouts, and used it as a reserve rig?

Yes they did !

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As it sits today !