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Tank Brigade: 1919

    Latest entry in the Shorpy Concours of Complicated Contraptions.
San Francisco circa 1919. "Peerless tank truck." Last seen here, and a cousin to this Red Cross tanker used, to no discernible effect, to wet down streets during the influenza epidemic of the late teens. 5x7 glass negative. View full size.

    Latest entry in the Shorpy Concours of Complicated Contraptions.

San Francisco circa 1919. "Peerless tank truck." Last seen here, and a cousin to this Red Cross tanker used, to no discernible effect, to wet down streets during the influenza epidemic of the late teens. 5x7 glass negative. View full size.

 

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We have to stop stop stop

Having driven a 1950 F6 truck with a tank about the same size (with no baffles) on small hills I can't imagine stopping this on San Francisco hills with half a tank. They would have rocked right through many intersections.

It had a discernible effect

When the public is clamoring for the government to "do something" when people are dropping like flies, hosing down dirty, dusty streets is a very public way of showing you are "doing something". Bread, circuses, and fire hoses.

That is a suction hose

on the side of the tank, not a discharge hose.

[The suction hose is for drawing water from fire cisterns. The sprinklers are here at the rear. Dribbling even as we speak. - Dave]

Hard Truck to Drive?

Must have been a hard truck to drive, that lady has three feet!!

[Four, by my count. And a double chin! -tterrace]

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