Motorized Fire Truck
Last Updated: August 9, 2024
This Disneyand version of an early model fire engine has a honking horn instead of a siren.
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Motorized Fire Truck Secrets:
At the turn of the century, gas-driven cars were considered a novelty — and a hazard — lacking the reliability of a horse. Motorized fire equipment merely supplementary to the more respected steed.
Required an "A" ticket in 1964-1965
From Main Street Vehicles Story Guide 1966:
The motorized fire engine is similarly a composite design of a hose carrying fire engine of the turn of the century. The primary change we made was to place seats where the hose was carried. The Studio men designed a chassis, then pored through standard catalogue for unlikely, but practical equipment — a jeep rear axle, a three-speed truck transmission, the power plant of a small pick-up truck and standard drive-line parts. The bell and the siren are authentic, purchased after considerable search.
From WED Disneyland Dictionary 1968
Answer "alarms" with visitors aboard. The two 1900-era fire engines begin their bell-ringing journey down Main Street from the Disneyland Fire Department in Town Square.
From 1970's Attraction Showmanship:
The motorized fire engine is a composite design of a hose-carrying fire engine of the turn of the century. The primary change made on the Disney fire engine was to place seats where the hose was carried. "Imagineers" designed a chassis, then pored through standard catalogues for practical equipment--a jeep rear axle, a three-speed truck transmission and standard drive-line parts. The bell and siren are authentic, purchased after considerable search. Lacking the reliability of the horse, motorized fire equipment was merely supplementary to the more respected steed.
Required an "A" ticket in 1970's
Motorized Fire Truck Specifications:
THEORETICAL CAPACITY
This figure is what the attraction should yield under ideal conditions utilizing all units in the system with no loss in efficiency at any position. This figure should be seldom or never attained. It is an ideal against which to measure.
Theoretical Capacity:
216 per hour
DISPATCH INTERVAL
The time interval between the dispatching of units.
Dispatch Interval:
3:20
INSTANTANOUS CAPACITY
Number of guests that can be handled when ride opens
Instantanous Capacity:
Trips:
18 per hour:
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DISTANCE
Distance Traveled
Distance:
1940 feet
CAPACITY PER UNIT
Capacity for each vehicle or show
Capacity Per Unit:
12
SPEED
Average speed vehicles travel
Speed:
4.40
CYCLE TIME
From the time a unit passes any given point in the cycle until it returns to that same point.
Cycle Time:
6:40
QUEUE FACTOR
Average wait time; the number of minutes from the time a guest steps into a line until he actually sets foot on an attraction. 1965
Queue Factor:
Negligible
LOAD TIME
From the time the guest(s) begins to enter the unit until the guest(s) is seated and the unit is safe to dispatch.
Load Time:
0:30
TRIP TIME
From dispatch to unload.
Trip Time:
2:30
ATTENDANCE FACTOR
(Total Guests Carried/Total Main Gate Attendance) * 100 (1964)
Attendance Factor:
4.2
UTILIZATION FACTOR
Capacity Percentage * Attendance Percentage (1964)
Utilization Factor:
2.2
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