American LaFrance

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American LaFrance
legal form Limited Liability Company
founding 1873
resolution 2014
Seat Summerville , United States
management Lynn Tilton
Number of employees 150
Branch Fire engines
Website www.americanlafrance.com
Status: 2014

American LaFrance 75 No 3542 on June 20, 2008 in Baienfurt

American LaFrance (ALF) was a fire and rescue vehicle manufacturer in Summerville , South Carolina , USA with a history dating back to 1873.

history

In 1873 the LaFrance Manufacturing Company was founded, which manufactured hand pumps and steam engines. The actual International Fire Engine Company was founded in 1903 by merging with the American Fire Engine Company and renamed the American LaFrance Fire Engine Company in the same year . The manufacturing facilities were set up in Elmira , New York .

In 1929 American LaFrance merged with the Republic Motor Truck Company to form LaFrance-Republic . Between 1995 and 2005, American LaFrance was a subsidiary of Freightliner and thus also of Daimler-Benz and Daimler-Chrysler . American LaFrance was acquired by the investment firm Patriarch Partners in 2005 .

In January 2014, the company announced that it would cease operations.

Products

American LaFrance manufactured and sold a comprehensive range of fire and rescue vehicles. These included chassis , ambulances , fire trucks and turntable ladder vehicles for fire brigades as well as tank trucks .

1916 American La France Speedster
American La France, built in 1918, 90 years later on the south loop of the Nürburgring
American La France, built in 1926, 2019 at the Solitude Revival

Received vehicles

A large number of ALF vehicles can be seen in the Auto- und Technik-Museum Sinsheim .

Car

The company manufactured about 10 to 15 passenger cars in 1903 , which were marketed as La France . The brand name was spelled with a space, according to a source. In 1905 a prototype with a cardan drive followed , which was probably also called La France .

Between 1907 and 1914, other cars were built that were now marketed as American La France . According to a source, this brand name was also written with spaces.

race car

Fire engines were converted into racing cars, mostly called Speedsters , as early as the 1920s . For this purpose, the frames were shortened and the equipment was reduced to the bare essentials.

See also

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 42 and p. 834 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 51. (English)
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 846. (English)

Web links

Commons : American LaFrance  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • American LaFrance. American LaFrance, LLC, May 2013; Archived from the original on May 15, 2013 ; accessed on August 1, 2016 (English, homepage in 2013).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heritage. (No longer available online.) In: American LaFrance. Archived from the original on October 16, 2006 ; accessed on August 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Truck Firms Unite. The Pittsburgh Press, April 21, 1929, p. 82 , accessed on August 1, 2016 (English): "The consolidated company will be known as the LaFrance-Republic Corp."
  3. ↑ Lynn Tilton Is Not A Billionaire, And Her Fortune Is Sinking , at www.forbes.com , accessed February 12, 2017
  4. ↑ Jim Donnelly: American LaFrance, the firefighting legend, is no more. In: Hemmings Daily. Hemmings, March 12, 2014, archived from the original on March 15, 2014 ; accessed on August 1, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 42 and p. 834 (English).
  6. ↑ a b c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 51 and p. 846. (English)
  7. ↑ Oldtimer practice . No. 6 , 2008, p. 68-72 .