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1911 Seagrave 
AC80
City Service Truck
Shop Number
78
Builder Number 5613


Source: Walt Pittman Collection
Photo Date: 1911
Seagrave Manufacture Photo

 
1911 Seagrave Auto AC80 (Air Cooled, 80HP) City Service Ladder Truck
Shop Number 78 Originally in service as Truck 5 at Engine 23*
Builder Number 5613
Contract Number 1471
Contract Date
Date Accepted  10/23/11
Cost: $8,500.
 *Originally in service as Truck 5.  Reassigned as Truck 6 at Engine 26 - 05/11/12.  

Truck Company No. 5 at Engine 23

Source: Dale Magee Collection
Photo Date: 1912
Note the rear of Engine 23 in back ground.

Shop Number 78 was the first auto driven ladder truck purchased by the Los Angeles Fire Department.  City service trucks carried a full compliment of ground ladders but did not have an aerial ladder.  
The Department took delivery of this apparatus on October 23, 1911 and it went into service as Truck 5 at Engine 23 located at 225 East Fifth Street.    On May 11, 1912 the apparatus was reassigned as Truck 6 and housed at Engine 26 located at 2475 West Washington Street
 

 
 

Truck Company No. 6 at Engine 16

Source: LAFD Photo
Photo Date: 1911

Truck Company No. 6 at Engine 4

Source: LAFD Photo
Truck Company 6 was transferred to Engine 4 in 1917.

 


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