The 1953 Bickle-Seagrave’s fire service career came to an end with the delivery of four new Pierreville-Ford pumpers to the Windsor Fire Department in1977. 4 underwent a motor transplant – its original V-12 engine was replaced with a 534 cubic inch Ford V-8 truck engine. 4 on College Avenue, where it answered west-end alarms for another dozen or so years.
In July, 19 Bickle-Seagrave was transferred to the new Fire Station No. Purchase price was $22,770 – less an allowance of $350 for a 1923 American-LaFrance chain-drive pumper (former Engine No. 6 on Mill Street in the former town of Sandwich, replacing a 1930 Bickle 800 gpm pumper. A few weeks later it was placed into service at Fire Station No. Both pumpers had seven-man rear entrance canopy-style closed cabs.īearing factory serial number F-9047, the shiny new Engine No. The booster hose on the `53 was coiled in an open well on the rear step, rather than on a reel. The big “J” model also had a high pressure booster pump and booster hose reel under the rear step. The 1953 Model 400-B pumper was powered by Seagrave’s “small” 202-horsepower, 462 cubic inch V-12 engine and had an 840 gpm pump. 5, the 1952 delivery, was powered by Seagrave’s largest motor – a 900 cubic inch, 300-horsepower V-12 and had a 1,050 gallon-per-minute pump.
While they looked virtually identical externally, the 19 pumpers were quite different under their stylish sheet metal. The most distinctive feature of the bold, new 70th Anniversary Series design was the incorporation of the siren in the nose of the massive, full-width grille.The Windsor Fire Department purchased three of these classic siren-in-the-nose Bickle-Seagraves – a pumper and a 75’ aerial ladder truck in 1952, and a second pumper in the fall of 1953. of Woodstock, Ontario – marked its 70th anniversary with the introduction of a totally redesigned series of pumpers and aerial ladder trucks. In 1951, the Seagrave Corporation – and its Canadian subsidiary, Bickle-Seagrave Ltd.
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