09.07.2019
Story of the exhibit
A fire service tanker with Swedish-built bodywork, whose tank holds 7500 l of water. It has a front-mounted Ruberg pump and a monitor behind the cab. It was bought for Estonia in 2004 by the then Ida-Viru Rescue Service and was first used at the Kohtla-Järve station. In 2009, when new equipment was bought, it was handed over to the Sillamäe station, where it served until early 2017. With the new tankers put into service by the Rescue Board it became surplus.
Manufacturer
AB Volvo
Sweden
In 1915 the well-known Swedish ball bearing maker AB SKF registered the trademark Volvo (Latin for "I roll"), intended for a new brand of ball bearings. That plan came to nothing, but in the following decade the name came into use in the car industry. The first car bearing the Volvo name was…
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