1911 Knox Combination Automobile Wagon. Click photo to enlarge.
Pictured in front of the old Engine House on Campbell Avenue, this 1911 Knox was one of three Combination Automobile Wagons in service by September of 1911. On the back left tailboard is firefighter W. Charles Darby who would become one of the first six permanent paid Grade A firefighters in 1933. The man on the sideboard with the cigar is actually an employee of the Knox Company who stayed in West Haven to teach the firefighters how to drive. Prior to the purchase of the Knox apparatus all fire equipment was either pulled by hand or by horse.