FIRST DUE FIREHOUSE REPLICAS

About the Owner/Designer/Builder/Author

Andrew Benzie began collecting model emergency vehicles in the 1970s when his grandparents gave him his first Corgi and Dinky toy fire engines. He has an extensive collection and knowledge of Code 3 models, and has published three books on Conrad, Siku, and Tomica emergency vehicles. Andrew currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he runs a design and book publishing company, and plays bass and drums with several local bands.

First Due Firehouse Replicas

Release #7:

FDNY Engine 207/Ladder 110/
Battalion 31/Super Pumper System

“Tillary Street Tigers”

The seventh release of First Due Firehouse Replicas:

FDNY’s “Tillary Street Tigers”

In 2005 Code 3 produced a popular high-quality set of models representing FDNY’s famous Mack Super Pumper System. The set included the Super Pumper, Super Tender, and three Satellite units along with a wooden display shelf. For the last ten of their seventeen years in service, the Super Pumper and Super Tender were quartered in Brooklyn with Engine 207, Ladder 110 and Battalion 31, collectively known as the Tillary Street Tigers—the seventh release from First Due Firehouse Replicas.

About the Firehouse

The Tillary Street Tigers firehouse is located at 172 Tillary Street, Brooklyn, New York City, and was constructed in the early 1970s specifically to house the Super Pumper and Super Tender. These units had previously been quartered with Engine 211 and Ladder 119 at 26 Hooper Street, one exit away on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. This area of the city was originally chosen to house the Super Pumper and Tender due to its easy access routes to heavily fire-prone areas of the city with inadequate water supplies such as lower Manhattan, the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, and Newton Creek, Queens area.

Engine Company 207 was first established as a volunteer fire company on September 15, 1869. Ladder 110 was organized on August 1, 1891, and has been quartered with Engine 207 since June 26, 1949. Battalion 31 was organized January 20, 1896, and moved in with Engine 207 on May 1, 1946.

About the Replica

First Due Firehouse Replicas goes to great lengths to capture as much accuracy and detail as possible within each model we produce. Once the research is completed and a firehouse is chosen to replicate, the process involves taking photographs, creating an architectural building plan, assembling and editing the photos to digital 1:64 scale artwork, printing the artwork on glossy poster-quality paper and mounting the prints to foam-core board. Next the walls are cut out using a professional-quality mat cutter (to achieve 45° angle cuts for joins), and each model is then assembled by hand. Additional exterior details are added including air conditioning units, railings, exhaust vents, etc. Finally, remaining small details are hand-painted, the custom-built apparatus bay doors are installed and the raising of the flag completes each firehouse replica.

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Code 3 produced five models as part of their Super Pumper System set (not included with firehouse purchase). Unfortunately they did not replicate Engine 207, Ladder 110, or Battalion 31—however these units can be recreated without too much effort. A printed sheet of unit numbers is included with the firehouse to assist in converting existing models.

Super Pumper System (#16014-0000, 2005):

• Mack F Super Pumper

About the Apparatus

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Location:

172 Tillary Street

Brooklyn, New York, NY 

Years in Service:

1971-present

Companies Quartered:

1. •Engine 207 (organized 1869, quartered Dec. 1971–present)
   

2. •Ladder 110 (organized 1891, quartered June 1972–present)
   

3. •Battalion 31 (organized 1896, quartered April 1972–present)
   

4. •Super Pumper (organized 1965, quartered April 1972–1982)
   

5. •Super Tender (organized 1965, quartered April 1972–1982)
   

6. •Field Communications Unit (quartered January 1980–October 1991, March 1998–August 2002)
   

7. •Division 11 (organized 1906, quartered 1990–present)
   

8. •Satellite 6 (organized Dec. 1998, quartered 1998–present)
   

Books:

1. •The F.D.N.Y. Super Pumper System (John A. Calderone, LoC #85-072329, 1985)
   

Videos:

1965-1982 FDNY Super Pumper System 1:64th Scale Diecast Mack Fire Truck Set by Code 3 Collectibles (historical, 2021)

Release Date:

• February 2022

Dimensions:

• Base width: 19 inches

• Base depth: 13 inches

• Building width: 19 inches

• Building depth: 11 inches

• Building height: 8 inches

• Height to tip of flagpole: 8 inches

Features Included:

1. •Black base with 2 inch apron in front
   

2. •Removable roof
   

3. •Working apparatus bay doors (slide them into any position with the touch of a finger)
   

4. •Flag/Flagpole
   

5. •8 Bollards
   

6. •Printed firehouse fact sheet booklet
   

7. •Apparatus re-number sheet (a poster-printed sheet of apparatus numbers you can use to convert existing models into units quartered in this firehouse)
   

Pricing:

Our introductory price for this firehouse replica is $359 plus shipping (Note: the models of the apparatus are not included). The price covers the cost of the photo-quality prints (starting at about $50), the building materials (various paper, foam, plastic, wood and metal products), and around eight hours of time to construct (not including the many hours of preparatory research and design time spent to create each prototype model). Note: We create each or our replicas by hand—this is NOT a 3D printed or laser cut model.

Super Pumper System (#16014-0000, 2005):

• Mack F Super Tender

Super Pumper System (#16014-0000, 2005):

• Mack C Satellite 1

Super Pumper System (#16014-0000, 2005):

• Mack C Satellite 2

Super Pumper System (#16014-0000, 2005):

1. •Mack C Satellite 3

Engine 207:

1. •Mack CF (converted from a Code 3 FDNY pumper by First Due Shops, 2021)

Greenlight produced the Field Communications Unit as well as the station wagon we used to create Battalion 31’s unit.

Field Communications Unit:

• GMC Vandura (Greenlight #30277, 2021)

Ladder 110:

• Mack CF (converted from a Code 3 FDNY tower ladder by First Due Shops, 2021)

Battalion 31:

1. •Plymouth Belvedere (chassis and body by Greenlight, 2019, paintwork/decals by First Due Shops, 2021)

Solido (France) released a 1:60 scale model of the Super Pumper (with an incorrect ‘R’ tractor) in the 1980s.

Super Pumper System:

• Mack R Super Pumper (#3511, Solido, 1980s)