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Pictured above from left to right - Jerry Bird, Pete Welsh, and Steve Draheim,
along with Paul Bell (missing from photo) are the only active members of the
Far Hills - Bedminster Fire Department who remember going out on calls in
the Mack L.
1907, when they purchased a modern steamer with a 400-foot
hose and two horses named Maud and Sal. The horses were replaced by a Christie tractor in 1915, but their first motorized truck
was a 1926 REO/ LaFrance. The company followed their purchase with two more American LaFrance trucks in 1931 and 1948,
but when they upgraded their fire apparatus in 1953, they turned
to Mack, renowned makers of legendary fire trucks from 19111990.
Mack brothers, John (Jack), Augustus (Gus), and William,
began repairing gasoline engines in the late 1800s, and obtained
their first order for a motorized sight-seeing bus in 1900. Within
five years they had outgrown their old Brooklyn, New York, carriage and wagon shop, so at the urging of another brother, Joseph,
the Pennsylvania natives moved their operation to an iron forge
in Allentown, and manufactured their first truck in 1907. A decade
later, the company9s AC heavy-duty truck earned Mack their reputation and pugnacious trademark logo, when British soldiers who
depended on the truck for food and ammunition during World
War One, dubbed it the
