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Re: What a downer :-(
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 14 Jan 2003 02:14:02 GMT
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Sorry,
try this link http://www.massmetrofire.org/images/SomervilleE7Met.JPG
In lugnet.technic, Thomas Duggan writes:
> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> Tom D
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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 (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-03, to lugnet.technic)
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