Crash Truck for Airport Prominently featured at the recent opening of New York City’s new airport by Mayor F. H. LaGuardia at North Beach on Flushing Bay, was a new type of crash truck designed especially for America’s newest and largest municipal field. The truck was designed and built by Walter Kidde & Co. It is known as tiie Lux Airport Crash Truck and is a Diamond T chassis, rated at 84 hp at 2,800 rpm. It has four speeds forward, with tandom rear axle. Its overall weight is 17,000 pounds, fully equipped and has a governed maximum speed of thirty-five miles per hour. It has a wheel base of 186 inches and an overall length of twenty-six feet. The truck cost $8,542.70. The fire fighting equipment consists of a battery of ten Lux cylinders, each of 100 pounds carbon dioxide capacity, which are connected to two trunnionfed hose reels,…
