Adirondack Garage

02/12/2026

Let’s Do This !! Support our 1st responders

12/25/2025

12/22/2025

Today we lost a part of our Heritage Rip Mr Bussell !! We loved having you stop down, check in and talk over the last 11 years

09/11/2025

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In conjunction with the Old Forge Firefighters Drill School, the Town of Webb Historical Association is hosting the 2nd Annual Little Mo and Blitz Buggy Truck Muster at the Forge Motel Knoll on Friday, Sept. 12 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

At least eight historic fire trucks will be on display, all originally designed and built right here in Old Forge/ Thendara in the 1940s-1960s. Museum representatives and truck owners will be on hand to answer questions and talk about the history of these unique fire trucks. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite truck!

This is a free event and everyone is welcome to attend. Donations to support the Historical Association are appreciated.

Originally designed by Walter Lewis “Army” Armstrong, the trucks were to be a small, fast, first on scene fire truck which could spray water in multiple forms: stream to mist to fog, depending on the circumstances of the fire. It was built on a pick-up or jeep chassis, would be four-wheel drive and be called the Hi-Pressure Blitz Buggy.

Armstrong entered into business with Phil Burdick and Edward Hurley forming the High-Pressure Fog Company. The trucks were built by the Brussels at Brussel’s Garage in Thendara. Army was in charge of marketing and sales. He demonstrated, advertised and sold the truck through his fire equipment business. In 1953, Army separated from the company and designed his 2nd fire truck, the Little Mo (pictured).

During his years in business Armstrong placed small display ads in the nation’s forestry and fire equipment trade magazines, and a reported 46 vehicles were sold by the firm between 1949 and 1956. Available on the Dodge W 200 and W300 cab & chassis the ‘Little Mo’ was also advertised via Dodge’s aftermarket truck equipment catalogs. — Photo submitted

— By BETH PASHLEY, For the Express

07/05/2025

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