Long before there were aerial ladder trucks, there were city service
hook and ladder trucks. For many years, long-wheelbase, straight-frame
city service hook and ladder trucks were standard offerings in the
product catalogs of most fire apparatus manufacturers. The last straight
service ladder trucks were built in the mid-1950s.The pump-equipped quad
rolled on into the 1960s, before it too was eclipsed by the quintuple
combination, or “quint.” This book is a photographic tribute to these
fondly-remembered hook and ladder trucks and quads built during the
golden age of American motor fire apparatus.
