The pride of the department, the ultra-modern pumper was placed into service at the headquarters station on Pitt St. 8 was equipped with an 840 gallon-per-minute pump and 125-gallon booster tank.
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Powered by a 215-horsepower V-12 engine and bearing factory serial number L-3004, Engine No.
Two firefighters rode in rear-facing jump seats in the canopy style cab and three more on the broad rear step. Delivered to Windsor on Ap– more than two years after it was ordered at a contract price of $19,560 - the Model 710-PJC Spartan was Windsor’s first closed-cab pumper. Windsor received the third of these advanced-design pumpers built by American-LaFrance’s Canadian subsidiary factory in Toronto. The breakthrough 700 set the standard in modern fire apparatus design, and basically the same configuration pioneered by the 700 Series six decades ago is still widely used by the industry today. In the company’s revolutionary 700 Series fire engines, the motor was placed behind the front axle, resulting in compact overall vehicle dimensions and excellent forward visibility for the driver.
Just after the war, industry leader American-LaFrance announced a radical new type of cab-forward fire apparatus design. A huge backlog in factory orders for new fire apparatus by Canadian fire departments which had to “make do” through the depression and the Second World War resulted in long waits for new equipment - typically two to three years. placed orders for a new pumper and a 100’ aerial. The city’s last new pumper had been purchased in the mid-1920s, and only one new piece of apparatus – an aerial ladder truck – had been purchased during the entire decade of the 1930s.The Windsor Fire Department’s postwar modernization program began in 1946, when the W.F.D. Immediately following the Second World War, Windsor’s firefighting fleet was in dire need of modernization.
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