{"id":4292,"date":"2019-03-09T07:49:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T12:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2019-03-09T07:52:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T12:52:29","slug":"vintage-photo-of-charlotte-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/vintage-photo-of-charlotte-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Photo of Charlotte Tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would you believe a yellow tanker in Charlotte? This nifty picture was posted to the Fire & Rescue Apparatus 25 Years And Older<\/a> group on Facebook. Photo by Dan Mack via Scott Mattson’s collection.<\/p>\n

It’s a 1972 International\/Etnyre, 500\/1500. As the story goes, Charlotte added these tankers when the city began growing faster than planned in the mid-1970s. (Raleigh added a pair of tankers in 1960, for similar reasons.)<\/p>\n

The tankers were based on a street-flusher design, and were apparently chosen for their ready-availability and affordability. The body was built by Etnyre, which still builds road flushers and other specialty vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

See the Charlotte FD Trucks site, for more information on fleet history:\u00a0http:\/\/www.charlottefdtrucks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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More Old Photos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reader Shawn Royall shared these vintage pictures, from Station 23 in East Charlotte, in this Legeros Fire Line posting on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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