Only 333 pieces are to be manufactured.
――It is not a modern event that public institutions have to keep costs down.
--In March 1941, the chassis of the Hamden Fire Department's fire vehicle was damaged to the point where it could no longer be used.
--The diamond T-truck-based fire engine was already 15 years old at the time, but there is no option to replace it with a new one.
--In other words, the decision was made to repair the damaged vehicle.
--Because the fire department is under the control of the US city government, the city budget provided just US $ 1,234.85.
――This is about the same as buying an intact chassis.
--The firefighter dismantled the car body and attached it to the new chassis.
--The damaged chassis was from 1926 and the new one was from 1941, so replacement was not easy.
――In 1958, the Hamden Fire Department finally got a new fire engine, but the venerable fire engine closed after more than 30 years, and the fire engine functioned as a supplier of spare parts until it was sold in 1963. was doing.
――However, the truck was not in the hands of an individual and was handed over to the New Milford Fire Department.
――The company that manufactured the special body of the fire engine in 1926 disappeared decades ago, and it is quite possible that the body of the fire engine was made at the Diamond T manufacturing plant.
――The truck company, founded in Chicago in 1905, offered the option to realize the chassis of a fire engine to the individual's wishes.
( This is a machine translation. Please allow for possible misinterpretations in the text. )