The Squad is a 1908 Packard. E.30 Hastings and Congress . Squads were given Engine company designations.E. 30 became Flying Squadron # 1 in 1918. Detroit was the first Department to use Squads to get extra manpower to a fire scene. No pump.The Packard
had a chemical tank . Not a fire fighting rig. Strictly manpower. From Matt Lee History of D.F.D. Apparatus and Rick Lancaster History of the D.F.D.