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Photographed at the Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival Car Show in Lincoln, Illinois on August 25, 2013. The event is sponsored by the Railsplitter Antique Auto Club.
Please visit my collection of Motor Vehicles on Flickr where you will find over 10,000 car and truck photos organized in albums by model year, manufacturer, vehicle type, and more. This project, which began in 2008, continues to expand with new material added daily.
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The following information on this classic retired fire truck is taken from the O'Fallon (Illinois) Fire Department website: www.ofallonfire.com/
"This was the second piece of motorized apparatus ordered by the O'Fallon Fire Department. The 1930 Chevrolet chassis was purchased for $3600 and then delivered to General Manufacturing Company in St. Louis, Missouri where it was assembled as a fire engine. She arrived in O’Fallon on May 21, 1930 as a 250 GPM pumper with a one-hundred gallon water tank and was placed in service. She provided front line service until 1949 when she was placed in reserve status.
Used sparingly in reserve, her first tour of duty ended in 1954 when she was sold to an antique car dealer. But, like the Phoenix rising from the ashes, she was destined to serve OFD once again. The wonderful gentleman who purchased her, offered her back if the volunteer department would completely restore her. Restoration began in January 1971 and on May 23, 1973 she began her second tour of duty and serves to this day as a link to our past and a shining example of fire apparatus evolution. The restoration, handled completely by our volunteers, recorded 555 man hours but it has been estimated that nearly 3000 man-hours were actually expended before this beauty was reassembled."
Photographed at the 61st Secretary of State Antique Vehicle Show in Springfield, Illinois on September 11, 2010.
Please visit my Motor Vehicles Collection on Flickr where you will find more than 10,000 photographs that have been thoughtfully categorized into dozens of sets, and carefully organized by model year, manufacturer, vehicle type, and more. This project, which began in 2008, continues to expand with new material added daily.
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