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Re: What a downer :-(
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Tue, 14 Jan 2003 02:09:57 GMT
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Lime Green fire tricks were big in the 70's.
Sometime back in the late 60's early 70's someone did a study and came to
the conclusion that people see the Lime Green colors better in traffic.
As a consequence, ALOT of city's painted their trucks lime green.
Here are some trucks form the city I grew up in from the 70's
www.firenews.org/archives/som7wreo.jpg
www.firenews.org/archives/som2pirsch.jpg
Sometime in the 80's someone else did s study and claimed that the color of
the truck did not matter...but what was more important was the lights, and
the amount and placement of reflective materials on the truck....so...as a
result most city's went back to the classic red color...or a variant...red
body/white roof....or the growing popular "Chicago" style, red body/bl;ack
roof www.massmetrofire.org/images/SomervilleE7Met.jpg
I personally prefer the black over red combo, and have changed my trucks on
my lego fire site to reflect that
www.geocities.com/legotom1/stlegofd.html
Tom D
> O.K. now that I've chastised you for spreading gossip... let's talk about
> this little tidbit.
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> Please, someone.... say it ain't so! A black and lime green fire truck?
> The only picture I could find that was even *close* to this description was on:
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> http://www.airportfire.com
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> (Then click on 'Crashtruck Photos' and then on 'Photo 2'. They've disabled
> right clicking so I can't figure out how to deep link to the photo I want.)
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> Then look at the photo 2nd down in the right hand column. Some arguments
> could be made that this is lime green with black accents... or that it's
> just a poor color pic of a yellow truck. Either way, a truck like that just
> doesn't look right in that shade of green.
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> Why was it so hard to find a lime green fire truck? Simple. Very few are
> painted that way. Red, yellow and yes even white are about the only colors
> you're likely to see. Cruise through the airportfire.com site and you can
> see why. The colors work well given the nature of the work those trucks do.
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> Frankly, if LEGO is going to make a fire truck I do hope long and careful
> consideration goes into making it a traditional red color.
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> As far as I'm concerned there are only a few things in life that *must* be a
> certain way. Baseball must be played with wooden bats. Books must be
> printed on real paper. And firetrucks must be red. (1)
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> Here's hoping that the unnamed source didn't properly identify the color of
> the unsubstantiated claim regarding the phantom fire truck. :)
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> Regards,
> Allan B.
> http://www.apotome.com/lego/station71/engine71.htm
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> (1) Though some airport crash trucks (ARFF's) look absolutely brilliant in
> yellow. And there are some who debate the safety factors behind having
> rescue vehicles painted red vs. yellow. Each can be said to be more visible
> under certain conditions.
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