Turntable ladder on Daimler chassis

  • Date
    1 March 1910
  • Description

    The professional fire service in Breslau (now Wroclaw in Poland) puts into service the first turntable ladder fitted to a petrol-engined Daimler chassis. This makes it Germany's first fire department to own a fire-fighting fleet made up purely of petrol-engined vehicles. All three vehicles (motorised fire pump, turntable ladder and implement carrier) feature 28/32 hp chassis built at Daimler-Marienfelde.

Daimler DM 3 b, Magirus-Drehleiter der Feuerwehr Breslau, 4-Zylinder-Motor La 10254 mit 35 PS, Ritzelantrieb
Die Berufsfeuerwehr Breslau stellt die erste auf einem benzingetriebenen Daimler-Chassis gebaute Drehleiter bereits 1910 in Dienst
1997M737
Daimler DM 3 b
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