Travel in style

[Plane]

https://www.firetruckmall.com/Default.aspx?gclid=CO7D8YiY_MQCFdgPgQodn2YAHw

[Xavier_Onassis]

Looks like a great ride to your next fire.

I liked the look of the old American LaFrance trucks.

One of the firetrucks for sale here bears the name "predator". That sounds like a really dumb name for a fire truck. Fire trucks are not predatory. They do not kill and eat fires.  The other models all had reasonable names.

This is not as bad as  Kohler of Kohler, who used to peddle a flush toilet that bore the name "Defiance".

Who would want a toilet that defies them?

[Plane]

Hahaha!

I think you have a good point.



There is a disconnect sometimes between the perception of a maker and the seeming to a consumer.

To a maker the product is as much as life itself and they are invested in the time of their life and their hopes for the future, sometimes they really mean what seems like silly hyperbole to the prospective customer.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I suppose someone liked Predator drones and usurped the name.

Someone high up enough in the company that no one would tell him that the name sucks for a fire engine.

Lifesaver, douser, super soaker, It is hard to come up with a fire truck name that describes what it does and sounds brave and daring.

Humans appreciate fire more than they dislike it, I suppose.

Civilization would not be the same without fire.

[Plane]

http://www.americanlafrance.com/

American LaFrance Assets Picked Like a Turkey Carcass ......................Then there’s the issue about what happened to the name and any intellectual property associated with American LaFrance, a brand associated with the fire service since 1832. Sources have told me Patriarch Partners retained the name, but another source told me recently the name was sold to another major apparatus builder. It’s not unusual for that to happen. Look at Ahrens Fox, another storied name in the fire service, which was bought by HME, Inc. And there’s Maxim which was bought by an E-ONE dealer in Massachusetts that now uses the name for a line of wildland apparatus it makes.

American LaFrance was once the name in fire apparatus and its performance and cache was legendary. It is undoubtedly bruised and battered, but it wouldn’t surprise me it was resurrected yet again.

If that happens, whoever tries it ought to name a new cab and chassis the Phoenix.

http://www.firehouse.com/blog/12011116/american-lafrance-fire-truck-assets-auctioned-off

[Plane]

There is a good look to them.
http://thepistonhead.com/2010/10/ebay-other-american-lafrance-fire-truck/

Apparently this one sold at a good e-bay price.


Last year, there was an opportunity to buy the whole plant.
http://www.wbtw.com/story/24498999/sc-fire-truck-maker-american-lafrance-closes-down-unexpectedly

[Xavier_Onassis]

I remember that my home town has an American La France truck that was built in 1935 and still in service. They took it out to show off for parades.

Like hearses, fire trucks do not travel much, and there is plenty of down time for maintenance.

Too bad that American LaFrance is out of business.

[Plane]

http://www.vrml.k12.la.us/cc/vp_gle/4th/ela/firedept/benfire1.asp

in 1736, Benjamin Franklin started the first fire department ever?

http://nationalfireheritagecenter.org/benfranklin.pdf

In actuality there had been many volunteer
departments already organized in the colonies, so Franklins was not the first. But, his
flair for communications and marketing of ideas rapidly resulted in the idea that he was
behind the whole idea.