Showing posts with label White. Show all posts
Showing posts with label White. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

the car entering the shop is the steam powered racer in the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup


Bulls Head Hotel was the headquarters for racing teams for both the 1905 and 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Races. In 2005, Fred Blumlein, great-grandson of Aloyous Huwer, wrote:

Greenvale’s Bulls Head Hotel, located smack-dab on the corner of that tough turn, played an important role in the 1905 race.

Aloyous Huwer, proprietor of the hotel (and the writer’s great-grandfather), rented his “Auto and Wagon Shed,” to race driver and car owner, Walter White.

White and his mechanics bunked in the Hotel and used Huwer’s Shed to ready his steam-driven racer for the event. White’s machine was the only steam racer ever to be driven in the Vanderbilt Cup Races.


He received an “A” for trying, but had to abandon his car in the fifth lap because of engine and tire troubles. During the 1906 race, the Bulls Head Hotel and Shed became the base camp for the Pope-Toledo car group. They were the last race team to use the site during the races.



Monday, May 23, 2016

Old White at the Oldwick Fire Department


A prototype for a never-produced line of custom apparatus by Custom Body Service of Plainfield, New Jersey. This highly streamlined pumper was built on a White truck chassis. The front-mounted warning light is built into the hood of the truck.

 It bears some resemblance to the Seagrave 70th Anniversary Series, which was introduced in 1951.

The front assembly of the Monarch actually was cut from a diesel locomotive and incorporated into the body of the apparatus, this proved to be too costly to get into production, and no others were made



The body was built at Gold Crest in Dunellen NJ. This construction arrangement was at a significant savings to Ward and LaFrance options. Dan Coughlin who oversaw the truck construction, drove to Chicago to pick up the truck pump in order to expedite construction.

It was refurbed in the 1980s to be a tanker, but now is just parade duty ready

http://ofc24.com/apparatus/
http://ofc24.com/our-history/vehicles/
http://yngfire.com/index.php/topic,9596.15.html