Commercial Chassis ALF Rigs

[FAO25]

Thank you! That sounds a bit hard to master, but very effective. 

It takes more to describe it, especially the background to understand it, than if you just watched it done. As for effective, if it's all you got, well......

[Engine33Truck]

Fayetteville's Chief of Police owns what I think is a mid-1950s Ford/ALF.  I haven't yet managed to get pictures as I only discovered it yesterday, but when I drove by it I could tell it was an ALF by the set up of the pump panel and how the body itself was built.  Pictures soon to come.

[brucobuff]

A wrong turn during a trip thru Carney's Point NJ in May,1993 led us past this mystery rig behind the town's public works garage.
Faded lettering indicated the Dupont facility nearby as the original owner, plate below the window I believe says "antique fire engine with water and foam tanks", looked to have been there awhile.
Based on the ALF lettering: 1965-67 IH VCO190/ALF  ?/???/??
wish I had shot the back end, but appears to be entirely an Elmira product?
Warren W. Jenkins photo

[Box 2565]

Nicholasville, Kentucky
1950 Ford/American LaFrance
750 GPM - 500 Tank
Steve Hagy photo.

A wrong turn during a trip thru Carney's Point NJ in May,1993 led us past this mystery rig behind the town's public works garage.
Faded lettering indicated the Dupont facility nearby as the original owner, plate below the window I believe says "antique fire engine with water and foam tanks", looked to have been there awhile.

A really spectacular find.

[X Chief 1]

The explaination of "laying dual lines" was exactly correct.  When the engine stopped, the first thing done was to clamp off one line. Next, disconnect from the bed and connect that line to the pump. Immediately call for the hydrant to be opened.  The engineer could immediately begin delivering water from the hydrant.  Then the other line (with water up to the clamp) would be disconnected from the bed and connected to the other side of the rig.  Now you were on the hydrant with "dual" lines (2 1/2").  Worked every time.
Dan E. Boyd

[FiremanRW]

Crawford, TX VFD Engine 604
1964 Ford/American LaFrance 750/? Ex Cheswold, DE 43-2
FiremanRW photos

[START WATER]

PHILLY HAD  MANY FORD  WAGONS IN 1949

THEN GMC IN 53    55  WAS MACKS. 57  WAS GMC   59  WAS THE START OF THE INTERNATIONALS    ALL THE WAY UP TO 1971

THE INTERNATIONALS  FOUGHT MANY LARGE FIRES IN PHILLY

PUT THE BEST  LALSTING WERE THE 1949  50  AYTOCARS  THEY WERE STILL IN RESERVE   IN 73

[Box 2565]

First Segregation F.D. - Hazelton ID   Engine 108
1962 IH/American LaFrance
750 GPM – 1000 Tank

Garden City UT   Engine 1
1964 IH 4x4/American LaFrance
1000 GPM – 1000 Tank
Ex-Salt Lake County UT
Mark Boatwright photos.

[wardengine]

Montclair, NJ
1984 International 4x4/ALF #7814
750/500
Diesel/?

Bethlehem, CT
1983 International/ALF #7801
1000/2000
Diesel/?
Engine 5

Golden Glow VFC (Elmira, NY)
1980 Ford/ALF #6842
1000/1000
Diesel/?
Engine 932

Dillon, SC
1984 Mack/ALF #8044
1000/1000
Diesel/?

(factory photos)

ex montclair int alf now inservice at pioneer fire co pringle pa luzerne county

[Box 2565]

Wampum Borough PA
1946 Chevrolet/American LaFrance
500 GPM
#B 1801
Photographer unknown.

[fcdan]

Hickson, Ontario
1956 Ford Big Job F700/ALF
500/300
s/n F2938

[Buckeye 53]

Farmer City, IL      
1923 ALF/Brockway   
330   
7E12390
Don Feipel Photo

[Box 2565]

Sugar Creek Raceway (Blue Ridge, GA) "X Engine 2"

1973 Ford C/ALF
1000/750
Reg. # 2-1-3696
X-??, GA

Andrew Messer Photo

Ex-Buncombe, NC per ALF list....

[Box 2565]

Lost River F.P.D. ID   Engine 1
1958 Ford/American LaFrance
750 GPM - 1000 Tank
Mark Boatwright photo.

[Buckeye 53]

Mt. Pulaski, IL
McClean Co.      
1917 ALF / Ford Model T      
F.236
Don Feipel Photo