Super nice Douglas. Corgi has always done a nice job on their fire engine releases! Outside of pictures have never seen one of these rigs in person.

They were always referred as a Detroit Sedan even when other departments had them !

Thanks guys!

Guess they made sense for the city, with the hose bed covered it kept the snow and ice off, plus being a little smaller in size was a benefit in getting around city streets. I say smaller, but as a kid they seemed pretty big to me.Lol

I think they were really designed for protecting equipment, as the Sedan Cabs and Canopy Cabs are about the same length, as both models used a rear entrance in the center of the hose
bed area to access the crew cab. As you point out the benefit was crew protection from the elements at a time when that was usually a second thought in designing of rigs, I read somewhere over the years that a draw back was hose packing due to the roof. The idea must have worked for the Motor City to have a long love a fair with these rigs.

As FireDog points out the sedan cabs where used elsewhere but Detroit was the biggest user of the design by far, and started using them in the 1930's and I believe the ones who speced the original models of this design.

Thanks Brian, I was thinking it was also kind of squeezed for the crew to get in and out the back with all their gear on between the hoses, while hunched over a bit too, as I don't think there was head clearance for them to stand up straight.