This from Bill Friedrich:
In this series I will go through the history of each of the Turret Wagons starting with 6-7-1
Organized at 1244 N. Orleans on 12-14-61
(G-164) 1961 Willy’s Jeep. FD repair shops fabricated the body and installed a high pressure monitor
capable of flowing 2000-gpm
Disbanded on 2-25-77
Chicago FD Turret Wagon 6-7-1. Bill Friedrich photo
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Organized on 6-20-78 @ 55 W. Illinois St
(G-374) 1975 Chevy C20. In 1978 the CFD Shops fabricated and installed the body and twin Eastman HP monitors
capable of flowing 4000-gpm
Chicago FD Turret Wagon 6-7-1. Bill Friedrich photo
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Organized on 2-8-86
(G-366) 1975 Mack MB607T. In 1976 the CFD Shops fabricated and installed the body with twin stang hydraulic high pressure
deluge monitors capable of flowing 20,000-gpm
Chicago FD Turret Wagon 6-7-1. Bill Friedrich photo
#1 by Bill Friedrich on February 27, 2013 - 4:48 PM
Also it must be noted that when G-164 was 1st organized, it did not have a black roof. It was also called Jeep High Pressure 1. It was in fact organized at 1044 N Orleans, re-located to Engine 4’s new house sometime in 1962. Jeep High Pressure 1 was disbanded on 2-25-77
#2 by Phil Stenholm on February 25, 2013 - 1:32 PM
Jeep High Pressure 6-7-1 (G-164) was placed in service originally at the new Engine 4 house on Division Street in February 1960, and then was moved (along with several specialized units like the Mars Lighting Unit and the two smoke ejectors) to Special Services HQ (ex-Fire Insurance Patrol No. 5 house) on Orleans Street in 1961 (several months before SS-1 was organized there), where it remained until it was taken out of service in 1977.
The new 6-7-1 (G-374) was placed into service at Engine 42 in November 1978, and was relocated to Engine 47 in February 1982. then to Engine 46, then to Engine 81, and finally to Engine 104 in 2006. 6-7-1 was given a new signature (6-7-6) when the signatures of squads, snorkels, turrret wagon, and light wagons were changed to correspond with the District to which they were assigned.
The !975 Mack (G-366) was initially placed into service as 6-7-5 (the CFD ran five turret wagons for a short time in 1976-77, and all of them were located downtown), and its signature was later changed to 6-7-1 for the same reason that 6-7-1 was changed to 6-7-6.
BTW, after 6-7-1 was placed into service in 1960, the 6-7-2 signature was not assigned to a turret wagon, but rather was the first signature of the John Bean High Pressure Fog demonstrator (cab-forward Jeep) that eventually ended up as Fog Pressure 2 at O’Hare Field.
6-7-2 (“Big Mo”) was taken out of service in 1977 and 6-7-3 (“Big John”) went out of service in 1978 leaving only three turret wagons in service (with 6-7-5 having the 20,000 GPM monitor).
The original 6-7-4 (“Little John”) was (like the original 6-7-1) a cab-forward Jeep, but was replaced by a 1975 Chevrolet (G-373 – the twin of the new 6-7-1) in 1977. This rig was destroyed at a fire in 1980 while it was still assigned downtown (Engine 5).
The eventual replacement for 6-7-4 was a 1981 Chevrolet (G-461) that was given the signature of 6-7-3, because by the time it was placed into service in 1982, the signature of the turret wagons had been changed to reflect the district to which they were assigned, and the replacement for 6-7-4 was assigned to District 3 (initially at Engine 112, before moving to Engine 106, then to Engine 108, then to Engine 83, and finally back to Engine 108).
#3 by Jr on February 25, 2013 - 1:12 PM
Great pics and info. Thx for supplying the info on the GPM.
#4 by Mike McAuliffe on February 25, 2013 - 9:52 AM
Wasn’t the Willy’s Jeep originally at Engine 4 before moving to Orleans Street? SS-1 was not organized until October, 1962.
Great photos. We all appreicate your postings.