Looks like a Federal model 28 mechanical siren mounted in the bumper of Engine 274.
Nope, it's a C5GB. However, it wouldn't have surprised me to see a 28 mounted like that. FDNY used a lot of 28s on their equipment where you might've expected to see a Q or maybe a C5G, etc.
+1. Q's and company logos/graphics are usually mounted by the guys that ride that rig. I wish that more departments (within reason, of course) would have company logos/Mottos on their rigs to show their pride in where they work (I also like how left sleeve of their class A's are dept patch, while right sleeve is usually company patch)PS just to confirm...although they're technically under the sheriffs office, are the personnel who drive the fly cars simply non-LEO paramedics?
A 28 is pretty loud too. Where I live the city FD had some 1950s and 1960s apparatus still running in the 1970s, and there were a few trucks with 66Gs and 66Ls on them - I can still remember how loud and shrill they were.
I agree. While it looked like crap, when I worked at Rix Funeral Home in Odessa back in the mid-60s, our '58 Chevy wagon had a 28 roof-mounted. It was a 6-volt siren, and I was always afraid that it would go out on us since the '58 was a 12-volt car, but it was still working when the car was retired and the siren removed....and suddenly vanished! I saw one other roof-mounted 28. It was on a '62 Mercury wagon operated by the funeral home in Lamesa, TX ( a small town halfway between Midland and Lubbock).
Just curious....surely that Halfmoon Supervisor's unit is not a transportable ambulance is it? I didn't think that low top ambulances were allowed anywhere anymore.Boght Community Fire District
Unit: Car 12 (2nd Asst Chief)
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Colonie Village Fire Company
Unit: M409
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Clifton Park - Halfmoon Emergency Corps
Unit: 1972 (Supervisor)
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Guilderland EMS
Unit: 32
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Colonie EMS
Unit: 621
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Carman Fire Deparmtent
Unit: Truck 132
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Medicwest out in Nevada runs supervisor ambulances. They have supervisor painted on them and everything
I was quite serious. It may say "Supervisor" but it also has big "Ambulance" decals on the side. If they did that here, they'd be in serious trouble. Texas law has gotten very picky about "advertising" a vehicle as an ambulance. Putting the word "ambulance" on a vehicle according to state law suggests that the vehicle is being used as an ambulance: whether it is or not. A friend of mine who has an old coach-type ambulance still had ambulance signs on the unit that still showed the name of the ambulance company that originally owned the car. He was required to remove those signs because he was "advertising" it as an ambulance.
That's totally different than this. I'm assuming your friend was using a retired ambulance for non-EMS reasons, hence why I could foresee the state having an issue with the graphics. However, I don't think TX would have a problem with this particular supervisor fly car having the word "ambulance" on the sides b/c (although it may not transport) it is still an EMS/Ambulance agency-operated vehicle
I love the graphics on that Quebec unit. There are some places outside this country where Suburban-type vehicles are still allowed for transport. Crestline in Canada still builds them....mostly for export outside of Canada.I know in the UK all their SUVs have huge AMBULANCE print on the side doors and Quebec's Supervisor Tahoes have AMBULANCE incorporated into the new Battenburg graphics.
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I love those new little Ford vans. I was wondering when someone would get around to putting one into service.Buskirk Fire Department
Unit: Engine 5-6
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Stockbridge Fire Department
Unit: Engine 4
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Reedy Creek Fire Rescue Emergency Services
Unit: Medic Unit
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Knoll's Atomic Power Laboratory Fire Department
Unit: ATV
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New York Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Office of Fire Protection and Control
Unit: 5170 (2023)
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Every state, county, local gov, and other public entities are getting new plates this year. They'll each have the name of the agency on them just like the one you cited.
Spoken to the pt: Sir, would you mind folding your legs underneath yourself as we load you?
The main offices for all of the State Agencies are in Albany so it's easy to find them.
I would agree that they might be a bit cramped. But they would have a bit more headroom, I would wager, than some of the station wagon ambulances I worked out of. Being short of stature, the guys I used to work with got a kick out of my being able to stand up in a low top van ambulance, where they still had to crouch a bit! Touche! :lol:
Now that's my kind of ambulance! Any idea who built this one? The sedan-delivery ambulances were quite popular all over Texas in the '50s and early '60s. There were a number of companies who built on sedan-delivery platforms, two of which were here in Texas: the Gordon K. allen Co. in Dallas, who was also the parent co. of the relatively short-lived Modular Ambulance Corp, and Summers Coach in Duncanville. In their earlier years both companies built on both sedan-delivery and station wagon platforms: going to vans and Suburbans in the '70s. Summers was the parent co. of the too-short-lived Trinity Coach Co. Trinity only lasted from 1965 to 1968, building solely on Buick platforms. After Flxible shut down for good in '65 some of their tooling went to Trinity while the rest went to National Coach in Indiana. I had a 1967 short National Buick ambulance that I bought for a whopping $100 in 1975 from a long-since-gone coach co. in Wichita, KS. The Buick had the 434 Wildcat engine and would scooooot!
