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No: 18423 Contributor: John Kapshaw Year: 2009 Manufacturer: Sutphen Country: United States of America
Pete, I am lost in admiration - how did you pick out that this rig was a Sutphen ?
Especially, when you are in the UK, and are loaded up full, with all the British Fire Engine info... a mid-full in its own right ?
A great rig - looks like it has a low height-profile, perhaps for low bridges, or its original low fire-hall door - especially, as the back-ground doors are quite tall enough.
Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B
Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 23 July 2009.
Especially, when you are in the UK, and are loaded up full, with all the British Fire Engine info... a mid-full in its own right ?
A great rig - looks like it has a low height-profile, perhaps for low bridges, or its original low fire-hall door - especially, as the back-ground doors are quite tall enough.
Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B
Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 23 July 2009.
Pat,its sometimes very difficult in recognizing many of these American fire apparatus because to be honest-they all look simular in design,I mean the cab/chassis,etc.But the design in this type of Ladder/bucket shows clearly it to be a Sutphen.
Check out Sutphen under manufacturers on the site,they do make some brilliant rigs-Pete.
Added by Pete Matten on 23 July 2009.
Check out Sutphen under manufacturers on the site,they do make some brilliant rigs-Pete.
Added by Pete Matten on 23 July 2009.
Oh yes, I have indeed. Sutphen still make "custom" Fire Engines; instead of assembling parts on some mass-produced truck (lorry) chassis.
No "Euro-Toasters" here (<:}
Across the river here, Kennebacasis Valley FD (serving towns of Rothesay[Scotttish, of Great Britain] and Quispamsis[Maliseet Indian, of the Algonquin Federation] is getting a Sutphen Quint( TTL Pump) in the Fall/2009.
This Sutphen has a low profile, necessitated by a railway overpass, of the former European and North American Railway 1864.
The KVFD studied another Sutphen Quint at Amherst, Nova Scotia (1785 Major-General Jeffrey Amherst, Britain) - same problem with overpass of the Intercolonial Railway 1867.
Both railways are now Canadian National.
BTW, I meant to type "mind-full" in previous Post.
Still marvelling, at The Knowledgable Readers picking out all the details.
Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B
Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 24 July 2009.
No "Euro-Toasters" here (<:}
Across the river here, Kennebacasis Valley FD (serving towns of Rothesay[Scotttish, of Great Britain] and Quispamsis[Maliseet Indian, of the Algonquin Federation] is getting a Sutphen Quint( TTL Pump) in the Fall/2009.
This Sutphen has a low profile, necessitated by a railway overpass, of the former European and North American Railway 1864.
The KVFD studied another Sutphen Quint at Amherst, Nova Scotia (1785 Major-General Jeffrey Amherst, Britain) - same problem with overpass of the Intercolonial Railway 1867.
Both railways are now Canadian National.
BTW, I meant to type "mind-full" in previous Post.
Still marvelling, at The Knowledgable Readers picking out all the details.
Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B
Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 24 July 2009.
Sutphen
Added by Pete Matten on 21 July 2009.