The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-04-06
SPECIFICATIONS
FOR CHEMICAL
Auto Apparatus Ordered for
Independents to Have All
Up-To-Date Appliances.
MACHINE WILL COST $500

Mayor Thomas w. Cauldwell and
Clerk Nathaniel G. Toms have been
empowered by the board of aldermen
to execute contract with the Ameri-
can-LaFrance Fire Engine company
for an automobile chemical engine to
cost $4,000. This action was taken
upon the recommendation Of Chief
Engineer J.. Fred Runyon and the
committee representing Independent
Hose company, whose present horse
drawn chemical the new apparatus
will supplant. The town has appro-
priated 81 900 for the machine and the
hose company is to pay into the town
treasury the remaining S4,5O0 before
the contract is to be executed.
The apparatus is to be ready for de-
livery on or before June 1st. 1t will
be an American built car throughout
constructed of imported Krupp steel.
The weight of the chassis complete
with tires will be 5000 pounds.
The motor is to be fifty horse power,
four cylinder, four cycle, vertical. The
bore is to be of five and three-quarters
inches, the cylinders cast In pairs.
The ignition-Jump spark with Besch
high tension magnetic mounted direct
on motor crank shaft Contract
Spark advance and throttle levers on
top of steering wheel. fabrication
Mechanical oiler mounted on dash,
pumping Oil to motor crank, Shaft and
bearings. Motor also partially splash
fabricated Cooling-Ce ntrifugal
pump mounted on motor crank case,
gear driven direct from motor. Liy-
ingston honey-comb radiator. Fan in
motor fly wheel. Clutch--Mutiple
disc type. Transmission Four speed
forward and reverse selective type.
Drive-Double side chain from jack
shaft sprockets to rear wheel sprock-
cts. Brakes-Two contracting on
transmission jack shafts, one on either
side of transmission. Wheel base
129 inches from center of hubs. Track
or guaoe Fifty-six inches,
Frame Side and cross member of
steel, hot pressed, channel section.
Side member five inches deep by two
inches wide by 3-16 inches thick.
Braced by truss rods. Axles- one
beam section. Wheels Specially Sc.
lected wood spolSes two inches dia-
meter, forty inches over all front and
rear. Tires Front and rear six inches
by forty inches pneumatic Fisk quick
removable. Steering -Non-reversible
worm and sector type with large hand
wheel. Springs-Semi-elliptic front
and rear. Front thirty-seven inches
by two inches, rear ffty-six by two
inches. Gasoline tank AT rear OF
chassis, capacity twenty-seven gallons.
Body-Solid sheet steel and angle
iron construction. To have on driv-
er's seat space for two men, side seats
running from rear of body to chemical
hose basket, standing room for two
men on rear step. Hand and rear
rails, ladder standards. Step both
sides of chassis and across rear end.
Chemical equipment-Two tanks OF
forty-one inches by sixteen inches or
thirty-two and one-half gallons, Cham
pion Babcock type, and valves, piping,
etc. Cylinders lie transversely under
drivers seat. Lead glass acid recep-
tacles and improved agitator and
pressure guages. Hose baskets
mounted in rear of drivers seat, sides
of perforated steel and bottom of sIat
construction. Two shut off nozzles,
two one-quarter inch nozzles tips, two
hose spanners, two soda bags, four acid
receptacle holders, two No. Babcock
hand extinguishers, one each side of
rear step.
Equipment-Two pick back fire
axes, one crowbar, one acetelyne
searchlight mounted in dash board
No. Rushmore to light by electric
spark push button on dash board and
dry batteries, two oil lamps mounted
on dash board, one siren horn driven
by friction pulley from fly wheel.
Ladders-One fourteen foot extension,
one eight foot roof and one six foot
pike pole. Two lanterns mounted on
left side of machine. Locomotive bell
on dashboard if possible. One pair
of Weed chains for rear wheels. Com.
pany plate mounted on side of drivers
seat. Painting English vermillion
medium body and running gear, fine
line stripping and scroll work.
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