Originally powered by a Continental straight 8-cylinder gasoline motor and featured a Northern model 34BY rotary gear 650 gpm pump and 250 gallon booster tank. The windshield and cowl pictured were added by the fire department sometime after delivery.<\/em><\/p>\n![\"history\"](\"https:\/\/wardlafrance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/history.jpg\")
Ward LaFrance is named after its founder, Addison Ward LaFrance. In his early years Addison worked as an engineer for his father and uncle at American LaFrance. He as assigned the projectof developing aspring raising aerial with the added incentive that if it worked, his father would buy him a car agency (now known as car dealerships). Obviously, the spring raising ladder worked and Addison Ward LaFrance was rewarded with a car dealership. The success of the dealership led to the formation of a truck manufacturer which he named the \u201cLaFrance Truck Manufacturing Company.\u201d The similarity in name with the flourishing American LaFrance Fire Engine Co. caused confusion even back then.<\/p>\n
At a meeting with American LaFrance\u2019s company officials, it was suggested that Addison Ward LaFrance rename his company the \u201cWard LaFrance Truck Company.\u201d He did so, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n
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With manufacturing facilities located in his hometown of Elmira Heights, New York, the Ward LaFrance TruckCompany established a reputation for innovation and quality. Its distinctive name plate could soon be found on an array of diverse vehicles such as tank wreckers for the military, vans for UPS, over the road tractors, cement trucks, dump trucks, chassis for buses and trolleys, and even an armored car or two. If it had wheels and it was a truck, odds are that Ward LaFrance built it at one time or another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the first time since Ward LaFrance\u2122 ceased operation in 1979, the original engineering drawings, parts lists, and assembly indexes of every truck ever built are together in one place. We a have all resources for anyone who owns a Ward or is simply interested in keeping the spirit of Ward LaFrance alive. Check out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wardlafrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wardlafrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wardlafrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wardlafrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wardlafrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wardlafrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wardlafrance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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