Seagrave Fire Apparatus

Seagrave Fire Apparatus
legal form	Limited Liability Company
founding	1881
Seat	Clintonville , Wisconsin , United States
Branch	Motor vehicles
Website	www.seagrave.com

FDNY's Seagrave Engine

FDNY's Seagrave Engine

Seagrave aerial ladder in New York City

The Seagrave Fire Apparatus LLC is an American manufacturer of fire engines , which specializes in pumping and rescue vehicles and turntable ladders. In addition to the production of new vehicles, the company restores, repairs and improves older Seagrave fire engines. It also overhauls equipment according to the guidelines of the National Fire Protection Association . Seagrave Fire Apparatus is the primary supplier to the New York City Fire Department and the Los Angeles Fire Department .

Company history

The company was founded in Detroit , Michigan by Frederic Seagrave in 1881 and moved to Columbus , Ohio in 1891 . In 1963 the company was bought by the Four Wheel Drive Auto Corporation and moved its headquarters to Clintonville , Wisconsin .

Randolph Lenz , chairman of the board of directors of Four Wheel Drive's parent company, Corsta Corporation , was implicated in a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation case and in 2003 the entire assets of Four Wheel Drive, the Four Wheel Drive Corporation, Seagrave, Baker Aerial Scope and Almonte Fire Trucks, sold to an investment group to which the former board member of American LaFrance , James lifting projects. Today Seagrave is the most important company in the ELB Capital Management group.

In the United States, Seagrave operates plants in Clintonville and Rock Hill , South Carolina , is an official point of sale for the General Services Administration, and provides fire fighting equipment to federal agencies.

Canada office

The company opened a plant in Canada around 1900 and occasionally offered their full range of fire fighting vehicles until 1936. Following an alliance with the well-known Canadian fire-fighting vehicle manufacturer RS Bickle & Co. , "Canadian" versions of American Seagrave vehicles were built at the Bickle plant in Woodstock , Ontario and sold under the name Bickle-Seagrave . After several changes of ownership and a closure in 1956, the Bickle successor company, King-Seagrave Ltd. , continued to manufacture Seagrave fire engines on a large scale until 1973. At that point, Four Wheel Drive Corporation decided not to renew the license agreements. King manufactured fire engines on commercial vehicle chassis until 1985. Today Seagrave has its Canadian facility in Carleton Place , Ontario.

Car

In 1914 some passenger cars were built . One model had a four-cylinder engine that was specified with 28/30 hp . There was also a model with a six-cylinder engine . It was specified with 40/45 hp. Both had a cardan shaft . There was a choice of a two-seater with a tank, which is more likely to be classified as a commercial vehicle, and a five-seater.

1960 Seagrave busy again with the construction of a small, two-door hardtop - coupes . The car had a wheelbase of 2362 mm and was 3708 mm long. It was powered by a side-controlled four-cylinder in-line engine of the type Continental F162 , which had a displacement of 2654 cm³ (162 ci) and made 65 bhp (48 kW). However, only three prototypes were made, two with a GRP body and one with an aluminum body. The 770 kg heavy vehicles (GRP) should cost 3000 US dollars. Ultimately, however, Seagrave decided to concentrate on its core competencies and waived the previously announced production.

Chassis

• Marauder II - current
• Marauder - discontinued
• Attacker - current
• Commercial - currently
• Commander II - discontinued
• Commander - discontinued
• Flame - set

Fire engines

• Pumping vehicles
  • Custom Pumper
  • Commercial Pumper
  • Commercial Quick Attack Pumper
  • Custom Pumper Tanker
  • Commercial Pumper Tanker
  • Custom Rescue Pumper
  • Commercial Rescue Pumper
• Turntable ladders
  • Aerialscope II Tower Ladder
  • Force Aerial Ladder
  • Meanstick Quint
  • Tractor Drawn Aerial Ladder
  • TowerMax Rear-Mount Platform Tower Ladder
  • TowerMax Mid-Mount Platform Tower Ladder
• Tank trucks
  • Custom tankers
  • Commercial tanker
• Emergency vehicles
  • Specialist Rescue / HazMat

literature

• Consumer's Guide (Ed.): Encyclopedia of American Cars from 1930 , Publications International (1993), ISBN 0-7853-0175-5 (English)
• G. Marshall Naul (editors) and R. Parry Zavitz: The Specification Book For US Cars 1930-1969 ; Motorbooks International (1980) ISBN 0-87938-068-3 (English)

Web links

Commons : Seagrave Fire Apparatus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Seagrave Fire Apparatus (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Refurbishment . Seagrave Fire Apparatus ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Company Overview . Seagrave Fire Apparatus ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ General Services Administration . Seagrave Fire Apparatus ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ 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. 1334 (English).
5. ^ ^{A b} John Gunnell (Ed.): Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946–1975 . Krause Publications. Iola, Wisconsin (2002). P. 860. ISBN 0-87349-461-X
6. ↑ ^{a b} Naul / Zavitz (1980), p. 282.