
Items are sold as-is, where-is, with no warranty written or implied. Payments must be received within (5) business days from invoice date. Payments are to be made online or to the East Aurora office only. Note: we no longer accept personal and/or company checks. Applicable sales tax(es) will be charged on all items. A 14% non-discounted buyer's premium will be added to the high bid price for payments made with credit cards and debit cards. Please make all payments payable to: Auctions International Inc. For payments made by wire transfer a transaction fee of $15.00 will be added on top of the discounted 10% buyers premium to cover the bank service charge.

For payments made with cash, money order, ACH check, guaranteed funds (cashiers check, bank check, certified check) or cash directly deposited into a First Niagara Bank a discounted buyer's premium of 10% will be added to the high bid price. Item(s) sold SUBJECT to seller's approval after bids close. If you are going to have trouble picking your purchased items up by the deadline, call our office immediately!

Items left on seller's premises after the designated pickup deadline are subject to re-possession by the seller. Buyer must contact the seller to schedule a removal appointment, before access will be granted to the merchandise. Buyer solely responsible for removal of items from seller's premises within (10) Business Days after bid approval. ↑ a b c George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.

↑ a b c d e Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr.Hemmings, March 12, 2014, archived from the original on Ma accessed on Aug. ↑ Jim Donnelly: American LaFrance, the firefighting legend, is no more.↑ Lynn Tilton Is Not A Billionaire, And Her Fortune Is Sinking, at, accessed February 12, 2017.82, accessed on Aug(English): "The consolidated company will be known as the LaFrance-Republic Corp." Archived from the original on Octo accessed on Aug. (No longer available online.) In: American LaFrance. George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr.Brutus (experimental vehicle) on ALF frame.For this purpose, the frames were shortened and the equipment was reduced to the bare essentials. According to a source, this brand name was also written with spaces.įire engines were converted into racing cars, mostly called Speedsters, as early as the 1920s.

īetween 19, other cars were built that were now marketed as American La France. In 1905 a prototype with a cardan drive followed, which was probably also called La France. The brand name was spelled with a space, according to a source. The company manufactured about 10 to 15 passenger cars in 1903, which were marketed as La France. Īmerican La France, built in 1926, 2019 at the Solitude Revival Received vehiclesĪ large number of ALF vehicles can be seen in the Auto- und Technik-Museum Sinsheim. These included chassis, ambulances, fire trucks and turntable ladder vehicles for fire brigades as well as tank trucks. In January 2014, the company announced that it would cease operations.Īmerican LaFrance manufactured and sold a comprehensive range of fire and rescue vehicles. American LaFrance was acquired by the investment firm Patriarch Partners in 2005. Between 19, American LaFrance was a subsidiary of Freightliner and thus also of Daimler-Benz and Daimler-Chrysler. In 1929 American LaFrance merged with the Republic Motor Truck Company to form LaFrance-Republic. The manufacturing facilities were set up in Elmira, New York. The actual International Fire Engine Company was founded in 1903 by merging with the American Fire Engine Company and renamed the American LaFrance Fire Engine Company in the same year. In 1873 the LaFrance Manufacturing Company was founded, which manufactured hand pumps and steam engines.
