Quite convenient, as the winepress building also hosts our fire station!
In front of the fire station we built up a course for the kids
They had to complete this course e.g. to splash on several targets, supervised by the youth. The water was taken from a typical underfloor hydrant. Surface hydrants are not very common here
Another station was to bowl with hoses, hardly visible behind the application marquee
Recognised in the previous pic? We also had Grisus for sale!
At Station 7 the kids had to do a 999 i.e. 112 call. The field telephones of Gunther's FuKW 78 came in handy for that purpose
No chance to fix the mast guy rope set to the ground. So we didn't extend the HIRSCHMANN to its full length
Our '79 Magirus tanker (2,400 litres of water). Four by Four and air-cooled for sure. No power steering though! The IVECO lettering on the grill was quite small at that time.
Again the underfloor hydrant, the so-called 'Württembergian Manhole Hydrant', a local speciality which can only be found in Baden-Württemberg. In contrast to the DIN standard underfloor hydrant, which is used in the rest of Germany (even the GDR had it), it's underlying (frost protection!) and therefore needs a longer standpipe. The connection cleat is different and it opens clockwise. Hence Württembergian fire engines have two different standpipes aboard.
The Württembergian hydrants have their origin in England! Patented in 1840 by Simpson
. The Royal Württembergian State Engineer for Water Supply in the 19th century and his successors were creeded supporters of the refined Simpson hydrant