Four of these – three Type 45 pumpers and a Type 14 service ladder truck – were purchased by the City of Windsor. There were six in all, including four triple combination rotary-gear pumpers and two city service hook and ladder trucks.
Founded in 1904 with roots extending all the way back to 1832, American-LaFrance – still in business today – was the North American fire apparatus industry’s largest and best-known player for most of the last century.From the early 1920s through the 1940s, the backbone of Windsor’s Fire Department was a fleet of chain-drive American-LaFrance pumpers and ladder trucks.
opened a Canadian subsidiary plant and office in Toronto. In 1914, the American-LaFrance Fire Engine Company of Elmira, N.Y.
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