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3 this big rotary gear pumper was also in service for 30 years before being traded in to Bickle-Seagrave on another new pumper in 1953. Instead of the usual chemical tank, this pumper was equipped with a booster water tank system for fighting small fires. 1 – the 1920 ladder truck – was scrapped in 1941 and replaced by a new shop-built Ford cab-over engine service ladder truck.Ī second 800 gallon-per-minute Type 45 triple combination pumper (#4062) was delivered to Windsor in 1923. Trade-in allowance was a rather paltry $350.Īfter more than two decades of service at the W.F.D. 5, this pumper was in service for more than 30 years before it was traded in to Bickle-Seagrave Ltd.
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This pair included an 800 gallon-per-minute Type 45 Triple Combination Pumper (Serial #2878) with soda-and-acid chemical tank, and a matching Type 14-6 long-wheelbase city service hook and ladder truck (#2931). The first two of these chain-drive classics were delivered to Windsor in 1920. All were retrofitted with steel windbreakers and windshields by the W.F.D. All six were powered by American-LaFrance six-cylinder engines and were built with wide-open cabs without windshields. Two more – a Type 75 pumper and another Type 14 ladder truck – were added to the Windsor Fire Department apparatus roster through the annexation of the former Town of East Windsor in 1935.Īll six sported low, gabled hoods, gracefully curved front fenders and attractive German silver radiators with a cloisonné American-LaFrance badge on the upper left. Four of these – three Type 45 pumpers and a Type 14 service ladder truck – were purchased by the City of Windsor. There were six in all, including four triple combination rotary-gear pumpers and two city service hook and ladder trucks. Founded in 1904 with roots extending all the way back to 1832, American-LaFrance – still in business today – was the North American fire apparatus industry’s largest and best-known player for most of the last century.From the early 1920s through the 1940s, the backbone of Windsor’s Fire Department was a fleet of chain-drive American-LaFrance pumpers and ladder trucks. opened a Canadian subsidiary plant and office in Toronto. In 1914, the American-LaFrance Fire Engine Company of Elmira, N.Y.