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The fire truck is a Dodge truck, and I'm going to say about 1952 for the year, give or take a year or two, I was about 8 years old then! (sez Tommy) hmmm. It was a pumper, and I would have to guess it had about a 500-gallon tank. A "T" tank, which means, looking at it from the end it was in the shape of a "T". they would store hoses on top of the tank, and had storage compartments on the sides. It was probably powered by the Dodge 6 cyl. inline flat head gasoline engine, and probably a 4-speed transmission, and a 2-speed rear axle. They were very common back then. It was probably built for a rural fire company, because it would be cheaper then a commercial built fire truck, (like American La France, Hahn, Seagraves, etc.) The bigger towns and cities had more tax money, and could afford the others. A lot of small towns, had some small oil companies, who had volunteers, and put 2 + 2 together, and said I bet Allied Tank could build us a fire truck! They were right. Allied still makes pumpers today and we have more photo's in the archives to be released soon of more modern Fire Equipment.