Red fire truck

Not a great photo...

This was parked outside the mechanics theatre this afternoon, round the back. Apparently the mayor had arranged for it to be there for some reason. I'm told that he used to work on a similar vehicle back in the sixties.

There's a painting based on a poem about a number five on the back of a fire truck by Charles Demuth. You should go check it out on the Internet. I love that painting and tried to recreate when I was at college.

Here's the poem:
The Great Figure
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
fire truck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems
Four Seas Company, Boston, 1921