The American LaFrance Company Collection contains product guides, brochures, specification manuals, blueprints and publications regarding the company's fire engines and other fire equipment.Īmerican LaFrance-Foamite Corporation, Quarter Century Club By-Laws with an Amendment, February 23, 1959.Īmerican LaFrance memo regarding operating instructions for apparatus with automatic transmissions, December 8, 1959. More information can be found in the following collections: Biography Files (BF20-425, BF39-500) Archival Collection (CL 18 - Tom Byrne Papers, CL 11 - John Huonker/ Hi-Bar Collection, CL 91 - Broadway Middle School Library Files) Manuscript Collection (MC 12 - William Lacey Collection) Postcard Collection (PTC.2) Photograph Collection (PC 14, 15) Stereographic Cards (SC 04) Maps, Architectural Drawings, Oversized (MP) and Subject Files (VF 265-020, VF265-025, and VF265-062). After years of financial difficulties and multiple owners, American LaFrance ceased production in January 2014. In 1985, the Elmira plant was shut down by American LaFrance’s parent company, Figgie International, Inc. In 1903, this new company became known as American LaFrance Fire Engine Co. In 1900, it merged with several other firefighting apparatus manufacturers.
The company manufactured steam fire engines and other firefighting equipment.
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This collection is a series of donations made by former employees and members of the LaFrance family.Īerials, American LaFrance, Asa LaFrance, Blazes, Fire Trucks, The Phoenix, Pumpers, Truxton LaFrance.Īmerican LaFrance, originally called the LaFrance Manufacturing Company, was established by Jon Vischer and Truckson LaFrance in Elmira in 1873.
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