For the first time in Marion’s history, two fire trucks will occupy the station house. The city council Monday night contracted to buy a new truck equipped with a pumper with a capacity of 500 gal per minute. This new piece of apparatus will become Marion’s Number One firefighting equipment and the present truck with its 350 gal per minute capacity will also be kept in service. The truck is to be built by the General Fire Truck Co. at St. Louis upon a two ton Dodge truck chassis purchased from Swan Motor Co. The total cost is to be $4132.50.

(Extracted from local newspapers and compiled by Harry Boyd, posted at http://www.marionfire.us )