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captain-crank · 08-10-2010, 20:34

Some updates.

Rumor has it the Mack will be loaded and heading North later this week.
I asked that the water cannons be guarded with rabid dogs and razor wire..... 300 lbs each and mostly brass.
That would be liike losing the cherry to your sundae.

Truck was received from surplus around 1969 and went to Willard Airport- University of Illinois.
Fire Marshall there said it mostly held down tarmac since it took ~9 guys to operate.
Once a year it went to some type of fire exhibition.
He says there are three of these in the US but didn't know where they were.
My sources say 2, this one and one in Texas.

Stayed at Willard until 1998 and then they donated it to the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum.

In '08 the Chanute Museum donated it to the Orpheum Childrens Science Museum, Urbana, Il.

Now in '10 I have it.

If I find some registration numbers I will try to get back farther than '69.
Unfortunately that's usually a dead end. At least with the vehicles I have tried prior.

These cannons can shoot a stream or a fog/mist of water.
According to the Willard Fire Marshall it is set up to shoot fire suppressant foam also.