Ward LaFrance

Ward LaFrance Truck Corp.
legal form	Corporation
founding	1916
resolution	1979
Seat	Elmira , New York , USA
Branch	Commercial vehicle manufacturer

Ward LaFrance Truck Corporation was an American manufacturer of commercial and military vehicles .

history

Ward LaFrance was founded in 1916 by Addison Ward LaFrance. Addison Ward LaFrance worked for the commercial vehicle manufacturer American LaFrance before the First World War . The Addison Ward LaFrance Corporation was initially a dealer for American LaFrance vehicles.

In 1918 the company started producing its own vehicles. It ran for decades. It was known, among other things, for its widespread fire engines. The company was dissolved in 1979 or 1990, depending on the source.

In addition to fire engines, the company mainly built other special vehicles: tow trucks for tanks for the American military, special delivery vans for UPS and other forwarding companies, construction site vehicles and chassis that served as the basis for buses and sometimes also rail vehicles.

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  Ward LaFrance fire truck, built in 1972, refurbished in 1987 by Pierce Manufacturing

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  Houston Fire Station with Ward LaFrance vehicles (1976)

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  Ward LaFrance 1000 series 2 tow truck from WWII

literature

• Halwart Schrader , Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , pp. 184-185.
• John J. Burzichelli (Ed.): Ward LaFrance Fire Trucks. 2000, ISBN 1-58388-013-5 .

Web links

Commons : Ward LaFrance Vehicles  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Halwart Schrader, Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon. All brands 1900 to today. Schrader Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-01837-3 , pp. 184-185.
2. ^ Company website ( Memento from April 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )