Spaamfaa

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SPAAMFAA (Society for the Preservation & Appreciation of Antique Motor Fire Apparatus in America) has an excellent web site with information concerning antique fire apparatus. You can also view photos and articles showing antique rigs. If you're interested in joining SPAAMFAA you can find membership information and also learn of the nearest local chapter to your home. An extensive calendar lists musters, fire flea markets, and other events of interest.

In addition to the web site, a quarterly magazine, Enjine! ~ Enjine! is published. Enjine! ~ Enjine! has information and articles concerning fire apparatus history, restoration, fire book reviews, along with questions and answers about mechanical problems. The magazine is only available as part of membership to the organization.

If you or your fire department have plans to sell an older piece of apparatus or miscellaneous equipment, you can place a free ad on the web site. This site is viewed 100's of times daily by collectors who want to buy vintage equipment and preserve it, not send it off to a scrap yard.

A quarterly newsletter, The Silver Trumpet, is also published with additional information concerning apparatus, web sites, a calendar of events, and for sale/wanted ads.

Individual membership is only $25.00 per year!

Visit our site at: http://spaamfaa.org/

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This quarters issue contains a history of South Bend Motor Car Works of South Bend, Indiana. SBMCW produced South Bend "Double Duty" apparatus. Also featured is an aryicle on the new Michigan Firehouse Museum in Ypsilanti. The cover photo on the current issue shows an interior view of the msueum.

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Are there any members of your organization who live in the area of Douglas GA? I am trying to find out about an old unit that belong to our department that is in the town of Ambrose GA who called it Squad 7.
The unit is a 1967 Ford/Young 4x4 open cab combination brush/rescue unit that belong to the Allentown Road Vol Fire Dept between 1967 to 1971 then went to a fire department in PA and then was sold to Ambrose sometime after that.
I had found out where the unit was and a member of our department had planned to buy the unit and bring it back here but he died before he could travel down there to look at the unit.
Since then I have not heard from the Ambrose Fire Dept to know if they still have the unit or sold it to another dept or to someone who would use it for other purposes other than a antique unit.
I would sure like to know the fate of the unit after trying to find someone to buy the unit after our friend died and I had to tell the people of Ambrose I couldn't do it either.
Thanks