This righthand-drive America LaFrance fire appliance is powered by a 14.5-litre six-cylinder engine driving the rear wheels by a combination of shaft and chain. Long famous for its high quality machines with their distinctive dual chain final drive, American-La France was the most widely recognised name in the industry. The positive-displacement rotary gear pumps were of the company's own design. Steam-powered appliances continued to be made until 1914, but seven years previously the firm had motorised its first apparatus using four-cylinder T-head engines designed by New York neighbours Simplex. In 1901 the firm merged with the American Fire Engine Company (itself formed by the amalgamation of four smaller enterprises), becoming American LaFrance. Based in Elmira, New York, the LaFrance Fire Engine Company was originally famous as a manufacturer of steam-powered fire pumpers, some 500-or-so of which has been sold by 1900. Although the American-La France company built a handful of automobiles prior to WWI, its main business was always the building and selling of fire trucks.
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