[Letter from Joseph J. Davis to Alex Bradford - April 6, 1944] Page: 1 of 4
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LOS ANGELES COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT
Phone MUtual 9211 524 North Spring Street
Los Angeles, California
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b. Alex Bradford, -B-e
cmmodore Hotel, 42 St. at Crand entral erainal
a York City, N. Y.
r Ir. Bradford:
very much appreciate your favorable comment on my article which
Served in the March issue of Fire Engineering. As I am a firm believer
water fog I am certainly pleased to receive the information which you
ye relative to your experiences with high pressure and fog equipment.
en you visit California please, by all means, let me know so that I maw
'-range a meeting and discuss further your experiences and ideas. Unqucs-
4onably the Tar is going to revolutionize our way of life, in many ways,
'. mainlyy appears that the Fire Service will be no exception.
-our mention of the new Mack No. 155 Crash Truck led me to contact
Sa .'Eck Agency which states that this apparatus is still in more or
ss of an experimental stage. I will watch its development with great
terest as we have standardized for Fire Protection District work (that is
least we did until War Production Board restrictions modified our speci-
cations) - a water carrying apparatus with a tank capacity of 1000 gallons.
find this 155 has a similar capacity. The four stage centrifugal Hale
imp which can be operated either single, double or four stage, seems to
fiance.
can ascertain there are no manufacturers here in t
d . ping H.P. pumps. Regarding your question as to what the hig.
-essure is that we have developed with the Byron-Jackson power-take-off
iven pump, I cannot say as we have no B-J pumps in service. I had our
ansportation Officer contact Mr. Coddington of the Byron-Jackson Comps
io informed him that they have done very little work toward developing
Lgh pressure pumps. The Company still makes two pumps, operating off
:.Ner take-off -- one having a capacity of 500 gpm at 125 lbs. at 3600 r.
.id the other one, 120 gpm at 125 lbs. at 3400 r.p.m. The Company's regu.
ne of pumps are more for municipal Water or Irrigation Companies and th.
unps they are now making for Defense Plants and the Navy are designed me
e volume than for pressure. The Mack Company informed us that they nfl
inger use Byron-Jackson pumps because this Company is not inclined to 1
.,ch experimenting unless the other fellow pays for it, whereas Hale wi
t. upon any sound suggestion. It was mentioned to Mr. Coddington that
le is developing high pressure type pumps and he said he had heard abcuF. D. 2-2-43 - 10 M
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Davis, Joseph J. [Letter from Joseph J. Davis to Alex Bradford - April 6, 1944], letter, April 6, 1944; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1479452/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Private Collection of Mike Cochran.