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As World War II drew to a close, America's premier fire apparatus builder--the American-LaFrance Foamite Corp. of Elmira, N.Y.--bet the company's future on its radical new cab-ahead-of-engine 700 Series fire engines. In a spectacular gamble to capture the superheated postwar market, all of the company's existing products were discontinued and its customers were essentially told to "take it or leave it." This bold gamble paid off and 700 Series rigs soon filled firehouses across the nation, sweeping aside all competitors and ultimately defining the breakthrough 700 as "America's Fire Engine."
This is the first comprehensive history of the game-changing 700. Individual chapters detail not only each of the eight major vehicle types but also the origins, design controversies, manufacturing, and marketing of the 700 and short-lived transitional 800 Series. The book includes a meticulously researched registry of every 700/800 series apparatus delivered, supported by many interpretive tables detailing production, specifications and major fire department fleets.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments delete deletevi
Delivery Lists, Production Tables and 700 and 800 Series Deliveries delete deleteviii
Preface delete
Chapter 1—Prologue
Chapter 2—Genesis: Bringing the 700 Series to Market
Chapter 3—Pumpers
Chapter 4—Son of 700: The Ill-Fated 800 Series
Chapter 5—Industrial Foamite Airfoam Pumpers
Chapter 6—Airport Crash-Fire-Rescue Pumpers
Chapter 7—High Ambitions: The American-LaFrance Steel Aerial Ladder
Chapter 8—Straight-Frame Aerial Ladders
Chapter 9—Tractor-Drawn Aerial Ladders
Chapter 10—Quads and City Service Ladder Trucks
Between pages 170 and 171 are 16 color plates containing 34 photographs
Chapter 11—Squads and Other Specials
Chapter 12—Engines and Pumps
Chapter 13—Elmira's Canadian Cousins
Chapter 14—Major Fleets: The Best Customers
Chapter 15—Home of the 700: The Elmira Factory
Chapter 16—Promoting the Product: 700 Series Advertising and Sales Brochures
Chapter 17—700 Series Model Designations
Chapter 18—The Details: The 700 Series Spotter's Guide
Chapter 19—America's Fire Engine: How the 700 Series Affected Our Culture
Chapter 20—Epilogue
Chapter 21—By the Numbers: Synopsis of Production
Chapter 22—Registry of Deliveries
Bibliography delete
Index delete
