America's Fire Engine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Fire Engine write by Walter M.P. McCall. This book was released on 2022-11-14. America's Fire Engine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As World War II drew to a close, America's premier fire apparatus builder--the American-LaFrance Foamite Corp. of Elmira, N.Y.--bet the company's future on its radical new cab-ahead-of-engine 700 Series fire engines. In a spectacular gamble to capture the superheated postwar market, all of the company's existing products were discontinued and its customers were essentially told to "take it or leave it." This bold gamble paid off and 700 Series rigs soon filled firehouses across the nation, sweeping aside all competitors and ultimately defining the breakthrough 700 as "America's Fire Engine." This is the first comprehensive history of the game-changing 700. Individual chapters detail not only each of the eight major vehicle types but also the origins, design controversies, manufacturing, and marketing of the 700 and short-lived transitional 800 Series. The book includes a meticulously researched registry of every 700/800 series apparatus delivered, supported by many interpretive tables detailing production, specifications and major fire department fleets.
The American Fire Engine
The American Fire Engine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Fire Engine write by Hans Halberstadt. This book was released on 1992-12-31. The American Fire Engine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describing the evolution of the fire engine from hand pumpers to steamers to the elaborate rigs of today, Halberstock points out all the interesting intricacies of the machines, takes readers along to fight real fires, and tells how to purchase a fire truck for $2,000, or less. Illus.
100 Years of American LaFrance
100 Years of American LaFrance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 100 Years of American LaFrance write by Walter McCall. This book was released on 2005-05-19. 100 Years of American LaFrance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the creation of the American-LaFrance Fire Engine Co. in 1904 through the company's latest deliveries in 2004, McCall provides insight into the company's often complex corporate history with emphasis on the development of ALF motor fire apparatus. Comparisons to its competitors help explain the various development stages in apparatus style and components. Detailed, historic photographs show the wide variety of apparatus produced by ALF over the last century. A color gallery portrays the ALF colorful designs that remain popular for U.S fire departments today. The story wouldn't be complete without a chapter on ALFCO's Canadian Cousin, LaFrance Fire Engine & Foamite Ltd. An appendix explains the various types and series and the time period they were built. An outline of the various names the company went through is also
The American Fire Station
The American Fire Station - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Fire Station write by Gerry Souter. This book was released on 1998. The American Fire Station available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A visual survey of fire stations and equipment since the 18th century across the country. Discusses the technology and sociology of the designs, and such political influences as candidates for local office needing an issue, and the New Deal programs for providing jobs by building fire stations. Anno
American LaFrance 400 Series
American LaFrance 400 Series - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American LaFrance 400 Series write by Walter M. P. McCall. This book was released on 2007. American LaFrance 400 Series available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Powered by the company’s industry-leading V-12 engine, the 400 Series Metropolitan with its long, gracefully tapered hood, skirted fenders, classically-proportioned gabled radiator and oversized wheels, was a triumph of industrial design—an eye-pleasing blend of form and function, and the industry’s first truly styled fire engine. This authoritative, thoroughly-researched and richly illustrated book documents the big 400’s relatively short, but spectacular, production life from its introduction in late 1934 through the last two assembled from the parts bin in early 1940.
