Mack Type 75, New South Wales Fire Brigade, 1942

A 1942 Mack Type 75 that once ran with the New South Wales Fire Brigade, now part of the Museum of Fire collection in Penrith, near Sydney. The Type 75 was Mack's 750-gallon-a-minute pumper of the late 1930s and 1940s, built on its E-series trucks, and this one shows how far American engines traveled. Compare its rounded fenders and tall grille with the Mack AC: in about twenty years the fire engine had gone from chain-driven workhorse to streamlined machine.