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The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)

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148 points mstngl | 1 comments | 03 Nov 25 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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7402 ◴[03 Nov 25 23:06 UTC] No.45805564[source]▶
Anyone else struck by this bit?

Mack was awarded the contract to build the truck in 1964 and by the end of the year, the unit was nearly ready to hit the streets of NYC.

Seems amazingly fast by current standards. Those were the days!

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potato3732842 ◴[03 Nov 25 23:27 UTC] No.45805729[source]▶
Think about all the processes they just didn't have to do back then.
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1. garbagewoman ◴[03 Nov 25 23:32 UTC] No.45805766[source]▶
just less massive amounts of waste, fraud and corruption