{"id":4370,"date":"2019-04-19T07:09:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=4370"},"modified":"2019-04-19T07:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:22:23","slug":"not-a-fire-chiefs-car-from-dunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/not-a-fire-chiefs-car-from-dunn\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Fire Chief&#8217;s Car From Dunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is a blog version of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LegerosFire\/photos\/a.680825135279051\/2625088837519328\/?type=3&amp;theater\">this Facebook posting<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A friend found this one: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hemmings.com\/classifieds\/cars-for-sale\/simplex\/unspecified\/2214106.html?fbclid=IwAR3gM07DVmVtLSy3A819Ok1UuaeebU-ITcOg_OiE5JigahUTsgsY7dpnHpM\" class=\"broken_link\">Hemmings offering<\/a> for a 1917 Simplex Touring Car that the seller notes was delivered as a fire chief&#8217;s car for Dunn, NC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s probably wrong. If you search the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaamfaa.org\/resources\/peckhams-american-lafrance-search\/\">SPAAMFAA Peckham ALF registr<\/a>y, you&#8217;ll get this hit, which was a combination hose\/chemical car. And probably interpreted by the seller as meaning this vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>1551 &#8211; DUNN &#8211; NC &#8211; 40 COMB\/JR. &#8211; 85758 &#8211; 6\/16\/1917 &#8211; ALF<\/p>\n<p>Reasonable mistake. But for this fire historian, it fails the contextual consideration. Would a town the size of Dunn in the 1910s have purchased new ANY motor car for its fire chief? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted for your consideration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4371\" src=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-04-19-dfd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-04-19-dfd.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-04-19-dfd-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-04-19-dfd-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019-04-19-dfd-730x548.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fnot-a-fire-chiefs-car-from-dunn%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4370\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Not a Fire Chief\\'s Car From Dunn\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fnot-a-fire-chiefs-car-from-dunn%2F&text=Not+a+Fire+Chief%26%238217%3Bs+Car+From+Dunn\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4370\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Not a Fire Chief\\'s Car From Dunn\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fnot-a-fire-chiefs-car-from-dunn%2F&description=Not+a+Fire+Chief%26%238217%3Bs+Car+From+Dunn\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"4370\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Not a Fire Chief\\'s Car From Dunn\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-pinterest\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a blog version of\u00a0this Facebook posting.\u00a0 A friend found this one: Hemmings offering for a 1917 Simplex Touring Car that the seller notes was delivered as a fire chief&#8217;s car for Dunn, NC.\u00a0 That&#8217;s probably wrong. 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