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.American LaFrance Custom Pumper Fire Truck Fire Engine
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.AMT
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.1:25
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| Builder: | .Civic
| | Item Status: | .Built To Order / Pre-Order
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The award-winning building and painting of the American LaFrance Custom Pumper Fire Truck City of Tory. Classic red color with accurate decals and markings. Scratch built axles and rebuilt some parts. Top building quality with crisp details overall and very high standard accuracy on each part. Add cab interior and fire pump details. Chrome parts and clear parts with rubber tire and more add-on details.
* Top building quality with great detail overall.
* Display quality assembly model of the fire pumper.
* Scratch built axles to make the wheel works
* The chrome-plated parts are nicely done .
* Chassis and subassemblies are nicely done for the water pump, suspension, pressure tanks, and other common details.
* Nicely done engine assembly with details.
* Stowage compartments and main water holding tank with great details.
* The cab is quite impressive in the detailing.
* Much of the detail can be seen through all of the windows around the cab.
* Side plate with details.
* Rubber wheel with great pattern details.
* Add lots of small exterior detail, including mirrors, lights, handles, and more.
* The decals are nicely done.
Buffing and sanding to remove the mold seam. Base color with primer and putty for better surface detail. Airbrushed and painted. Add clear paint for good finishing on Beautiful decals and markings. Wash to enhance the surface detail, increase the appearance of depth, including the engine, bolt head, and more. Brushing to emphasize and highlighting texture with the edge. Filter out the contrast and blend color effects. Polish chrome parts and polish all glossy body parts for realistic effects. Three coats of shining paint work and apply three layers of clear coat, and more on real-life finishing.
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American LaFrance (ALF) was an American vehicle manufacturer which focused primarily on the production of fire engines, fire aerials, and emergency apparatus such as ambulance and rescue vehicles. The company was located in Summerville, South Carolina. It was announced Friday, January 17, 2014 they would cease operations.
The American LaFrance Fire Engine Company was one of the oldest fire apparatus manufacturers in the United States. With roots that go back to approximately 1832, the companies that went on to become American LaFrance built hand-drawn, horse-drawn, and steam-powered fire engines. Founded in 1873 by Truckson LaFrance and his partners, including Alexander S. Diven as the LaFrance Manufacturing Company selling hand powered equipment. The International Fire Engine Company, corporate predecessor of American LaFrance, built some steam power fire engines between 1903 and 1907. Apparatus built by International included horse drawn steamers, hose wagons, and hook & ladders to chemical engines, water towers and combinations. The American LaFrance Fire Engine Company was formed in 1903. Its corporate offices and manufacturing plant were in Elmira, New York. It also operated a Canadian plant in Toronto, Ontario, where it sold apparatus under the name Lafrance-Foamite, until 1971. ALF delivered its first motorized fire engine in 1907. Over the years, American LaFrance built thousands of fire trucks including chemical engines, combination pumpers, aerial ladder trucks, Aero Chief snorkel trucks, and airport crash trucks. The classical style of the American LaFrance apparatus is easily recognized. Some of the company`s innovations led to changes in the industry, most notably the cab forward style cab.
In 1995, the company was bought by Freightliner LLC, which is a subsidiary of Daimler AG. Freightliner continued to utilize American LaFrance`s original nameplates and designations including the Eagle custom chassis. Many of their Liberty products were built on Freightliner LLC M2 or Sterling Acterra chassis. ALF operated additional manufacturing facilities in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Sanford, Florida, and Hamburg, New York. As of 2005, they were the fifth largest manufacturer of emergency vehicles in North America.
In December 2005, it was announced that Freightliner had transferred the ownership of American LaFrance to the New York-based investment firm, Patriarch Partners, LLC. The headquarters and main plant in Ladson, South Carolina were not included in the transaction. However, Patriarch Partners were allowed to use the plant until early 2007, when DaimlerChrysler began using the plant for assembly of the Dodge Sprinter. Under new ownership ALF relocated within the Charleston, South Carolina area in summer 2007 to a brand new facility, including manufacturing and corporate HQ, with nearly 500,000 sq ft (50,000 m²) of total space.
On January 28, 2008, American LaFrance filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection blaming problems with implementation of a new IBM enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. On July 25, 2008, the company emerged from bankruptcy with a revised business plan to transfer the firetruck body building portion of the business to the remaining Hamburg, NY, (formerly RDMurray Inc.) and Ephrata, PA, (formerly Ladder Towers Inc.) facilities. The Summerville, SC plant continued to manufacture fire truck cab and chassis, but focused on vocational vehicles and the Condor vehicle line. On January 17, 2014, the company announced it was ceasing operations.
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