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It is alway nice to see which treasures are found here and there. And that in a time where you think that all hidden treasures are found allready.
Wolf
Milfireguy's photo dated here 01-26-2009 seems for me to be a chemical warefare truck, later used as a NBC substuite standard truck. The German Army used the same boby work on the CCKW chassis in the second half of the 50's as NBC-trucks for decontaminating larger areas. My be some of them also...
Nice fire trucks, all of then! No space......
Your question: You sometimes still find here and there a former military fire truck. I know at least 2 on the Lahr Airport (former Canadian airfield, nowadays Black Forrest Airport). But no pics, sorry.
Due to standardisation of European fire trucks...
RE: M1500 Oshkosh Fire Truck
Seems that everything that could somehow hold a fire fighting set was good enouph to become a fire truck. So every think imaginiable seems to be correct (unless someone can prove somthing else). Seems that all armys of this world are the same!
Wolf from Germany
Your red before WWII fire truck to me seems to bee a nice pice of restoreable iron. Try hard, keep it alive.
To my knowledge the equipment of fire trucks was in the beginning of standardisation by that time. Compare the equipment only with simelar designed bodys of later models. But you can not...
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