After blowing a piston that shot through the side of the block, Jay is ready to take this 9-ton 1911 Christie Fire Engine back on the road and give it a send-off it well deserves.
2019-01-06
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I'm living in Southern Ohio but it would be great to live behind your garage. In Portsmouth, Ohio when I was in the Boy Scouts I toured the Seventh Street fire station and saw one of the old 1920's (I think) engines but I don't remember the manufacture. I think it was like Lefrance or something like that. That pumper was still being used to fight fires at the dump; it could pump right out of the Scioto River and the modern pumps would get stopped up from debris. All this is from The late 1950 to early 1960 time frame memory. Thanks for your videos, Greg.
when it was just running firing every second or so i was cringing waiting for a piton to blow out the side of the block. great video though jay glad to see you drive it as well as you do
"Lets take it on the freeway" Lol
Christie made suspension for tanks making them capable of going cross country at speed. Like the Russian BT light tanks and the British Cromwells and Comets. He didn’t make the tank
What's the difference between this one and the 1914 model?
He didnt invented the tank, he designed a suspension for them..
The Brits invented the tank, the Mark 1. Then the French made a better version with a turret and there you go, you got the modern tank design.
shows up to a burning building in this "I'm here to fight your fire!"
Great seeing these pieces of history run down the road.
Very cool. My Dad was a fire fighter in the 60's and they had 2 American Le France engines. They had 12 cylinder engines and manual transmissions. I can remember the sound of them running emergency traffic. The deep vroom of those 12 cylinder engines could be all the way through our town.
It helped for the early firefighters to have good relationships with the local arsonists ….who'd give them a heads up as to when they would go to work…so they'd ( firemen) have time to get the steamer trucks started up.