1952 Mack 750 GPM pumper

The "Mack."  Also known as Engine 2 and during one period of silliness, Car 2.  I never heard it called anything but "The Mack." Ordered in 1951 along with the Seagrave aerial ladder truck it remained a mainstay until late in the 1980's. It was purchased from a local Mack dealer for the sum of $18,000 and came equipped with 1300-feet of hose, an auxiliary generator and other assorted equipment. It was a brute of a truck with a non-synchronized five-speed transmission that made a fool of many fire apparatus drivers. An almost perfect design as a pumping unit it had very little compartment space.  It was seen on almost every fire within the city and served well into the late 1980's when it spent its last years as a rescue pumper.  It was sold to a private owner near Columbus, Ohio who uses it at Ohio State University tailgate parties.  It certainly lived up to its manufactures billing, "Built like a Mack Truck."