Builder: Mack Trucks, Model 21 with a Hercules 6 cylinder 225 HP motor

Manufacturer's Number:

SFFD Shop Number: TR-39
145-639 (applied 1970)

Location: In storage

Condition: Very good, restored

Crew: Officer and 6 firemen.  Assignments: No. 1 - Driver, No. 2 - Tillerman, No. 3 - Left side, forward, No. 4 - Right side, forward, No. 5 - Left side, aft, No. 6 - Right side, aft. 

Members of truck companies could and can be identified at fires and other emergencies by their red and white quartered, and black brimmed helmets.

Service History:

1937   Truck Company No. 12, 1757 Waller Street with a 1929 City & County Corporation Yard built City Service trailer
1940   Truck Company No. 12,  with a 1924 City & County Corporation Yard built City Service trailer
1950    Placed in reserve
1951   Truck Company No. 18, 1935 - 32nd Avenue with a 1924 City & County Corporation Yard built City Service trailer
1961   Placed into reserve
2005   Purchased by the San Francisco Fire Department Historical Society from Wendell Joost, Guerneville, California

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