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Earlington Fire Department
Hopkins County, Kentucky
Engine 802
2024 Spartan FC-94/Ferrara (1250/1000/20)
Part of the Reflections on the 4th Series
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You can get them matted and framed the way you prefer.
Ford Dagenham is a major automotive factory located in Dagenham, London, operated by the Ford of Britain subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. The plant opened in 1931 and has produced 10,980,368 cars and over 37,000,000 engines in its history. It covers around 475 acres and has received over £800 million of capital investment since 2000.
Vehicle assembly ceased at the plant in 2002, but it continues as a major production site with capacity to assemble 1.4 million engines a year. In 2008, the plant produced around 1,050,000 engines and was the largest producer of Ford diesel engines globally. It was announced in October 2012 that the stamping plant at Dagenham would close in summer 2013 with the loss of 1,000 jobs.
Employment at the plant peaked at around 40,000 workers in 1953, and following specialisation to engines only will be about 3,200.
1945 to 2000
Jetty on Thames serving the works in 1950
After the Second World War, Ford’s UK operation set the pace for the UK auto industry, and Dagenham products included models such as the Zephyr, Cortina, and (until production of Ford’s smaller saloons transferred to Halewood), the Anglia.
The 1950s was a decade of expansion: a £75 million plant redevelopment completed in 1959 increased floor space by 50% and doubled production capacity.
This went hand-in-hand with the concentration in-house of car body assembly, following the acquisition in 1953 of the company's principal UK body supplier, Briggs Motor Bodies.
In 1960s, Ford finally began to merge its previously competing British, German and the lesser competing Ford of Ireland subsidiaries, culminating in the creation of Ford of Europe in 1967 in Cork, Ireland. The new entity began to systematically merge the once-separate product lineups from Dagenham and Cologne. Henry Ford & sons followed British designed cars until the formation of Ford of Europe. The 1960s was an era that had several European automakers, including Ford, investing in new assembly plants on greenfield sites.
The Dagenham plant was, by 1970, becoming one of the Europe’s older mass-production car plants. In 1970, production of the Ford Escort began at the new Saarlouis in West Germany.[citation needed] By this time, the UK auto industry was gaining a reputation for poor industrial relations,[1] with a particularly lengthy strike leading to a three-month shut-down at the Dagenham plant at the start of the summer of 1971.
This savaged availability of the Ford Cortina Mk III during its crucial first year. By the time the Ford Cortina Mk IV was introduced to UK customers, the cars inherited several Ford UK engines but were, in other respects, virtually identical to those branded in left-hand drive European markets as Ford Taunus models. Saarlouis was joined in 1976 by another new European plant in Valencia, Spain, to produce the then new Ford Fiesta concurrently with Dagenham.
The same European strategy was followed by Ford's US rival General Motors, which in the 1970s, also merged the operations of its previously independent Opel and Vauxhall subsidiaries, with similar results.
Ford Dagenham in 1973, displaying what was at the time the largest neon sign in Europe
This decision to concurrently manufacture the same models in other European plants reduced the company’s vulnerability to further industrial disruption at Dagenham, and gave Ford a crucial advantage over strike-torn domestic rival British Leyland, which was often unable to fulfill customer orders during the all too frequent times of industrial unrest in the 1970s, and eventually ceded its long-standing UK market leadership to Ford, something from which it would never recover, but the duplication of production also made cost comparisons between the company’s various European plants increasingly stark. During the closing decade of the 20th century, UK government policy and the country’s status as a major oil producer left the UK with a currency which by several conventional criteria was significantly overvalued against the German Mark and the currencies that tracked it.
This tended to exacerbate any cost penalties arising from relative inefficiencies in the Dagenham plant’s operation, and new model investment decisions during the 1990s tended to favour mainland Europe.
For instance, the Sierra for the European market had its right-hand drive models made at Dagenham and the left-hand drive models in Belgium; in 1990, though, all Sierra production was concentrated in Belgium, leaving the Fiesta as the only model being built at Dagenham. The Sierra's successor, the Mondeo (launched in early 1993), was also built in Belgium. However, Dagenham did become a two-model plant again in January 1996 with the introduction of the Mazda 121 - essentially a badge-engineered Fiesta - as part as a venture with Mazda until its demise four years later.
2000 to present
By 2000, the only Ford produced at Dagenham was the Fiesta, itself competing in an increasingly crowded market sector.
The lead plant for Fiesta production was in Spain, however. Faced with a cyclical downturn in car demand across Europe, Ford took the decision not to tool the Dagenham plant for the replacement Fiesta due for launch in 2002, which was the year in which the company produced its last Dagenham-built Ford Fiesta. Mindful of its image as a good corporate British citizen, the company stressed that the plant engine-building capacity would be further developed to "help the UK to become the producer of one in every four Ford engines the world over".
The site has also been the location of the Dagenham wind turbines since 2004.
Ford announced in October 2012 that the stamping plant activities at Dagenham would cease in summer 2013. Some additional jobs would be created in the engine-assembly departments at Dagenham, but the GMB Union stated that 1,000 jobs would be lost at Dagenham, saying, "This is devastating news for the workforce in Southampton and Dagenham. It's also devastating news for UK manufacturing," according to the BBC.
As of 2016, the stamping plant is under demolition to make way for housing.
Philadelphia Fire Department
Engine 905
1991 Seagrave (EX-Engine 266, EX-Engine 902, EX-Engine 430, EX-Engine 238, EX-Pipeline 61)
Gabriel Trans 111
Provincial Operation: Airconditioned
Bus Body: Delmonte Motor Works DM16S1
Bus Manufacturer: Hino Philippines
Engine: Hino JO8EUB
Chassis: Hino RN
Route: Ballesteros Cagayan Valley - Baguio City v.v
📷 Baguio 2022
I think this is an engine on a Duesenberg car.
I just love the colors and details in this photo. It just blows me away to see how well these pictures turned out. Especially when they were taken with a vintage camera that costs less than $60.
Taken with a Minolta SRT-101 with Fuji Superia XTRA 400 film. I used a Minolta 55mm f/1.7 lens. Self developed with a Unicolor C-41 kit.
Some interesting machines were discovered at a Ferndown Scrapyard - 1898 Fowler HR4229 - now preserved.
17/6/69.
Engine House Number 9 in New Orleans.
Post by Stephen Ball Photography.
Please don't use this image on websites, or other media without my explicit permission, blogs OK with notification and a link back, thanks! ©2014 Stephen Ball Photography, All rights reserved.
Update: Added the Times Square lettering on the rear mudflap.
2014 Seagrave Attacker HD 2000/500 High Pressure Pumper
Dedicated to the fallen on 9/11/01
Engine 54:
FF. Paul Gill
FF. Jose Guadalupe
FF. Leonard Ragaglia
FF. Christopher Santora
Ladder 4:
Capt. David Wooley
LT. Daniel O'Callaghan
FF. Joseph Angelini Jr.
FF. Michael Brennan
FF. Michael Haub
FF. Michael Lynch
FF. Samuel Oitice
FF. John Tipping II
Battalion 9:
Batt.Chief Edward Geraghty
Batt.Chief Dennis Devlin
LT. Charles Garbarini
FF. Alan Feinberg
FF. Carl Asaro
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This unit (operational) was built in 1956 and was acquired in a trade from the Finger Lakes Railway in November 2011. The unit was delivered along with the 1757 on September 22, 2012.
Beautiful engine behind that hood ornament. . .loved the purple color. . .and the iconic Ford logo sets it all off nicely. . .Blacktop Nationals. . .Wichita. . .Summer 2014. . .
a bit of an artistic picture now, haha.
The RL8 is packed with a compact V8 as a powertrain, producing not as much horsepower as the Venozis RL7, but the radiator has moved upwards in order to catch better the air provided by the roof and that has increased the cooling efficiency significantly. It's like the RL8's got a 8th generation Intel I5 processor, while the RL7 has a 7th one Intel I7.
But why a V8, instead of a Boxer? Well, the joint project agreements involved the engine type choice aswell, and this is the setup we chose for our rides. The RL8 will also be the second model of the line to feature RWD instead of AWD, just like it's grandfather Asphalt RL4 (which has also been born on a circustance of a joint project with Alex B).
Newbiggin Colliery was opened in 1908 by Newbiggin Collieries Ltd, and closed in 1967.
Here we have a Yorkshire Engine Company [YEC] locomotive purchased new by the company in 1910. Bit of a rare beast in Northumberland.
The locomotives name 'KIT' can be made out faintly on the side of the saddle tank.