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AMERICA’S FIRE ENGINE: THE AMERICAN-LAFRANCE 700 SERIES, 1947-1959

By Walter M. P. McCall and Alan M. Craig

McFarland & Company 800-253-2187 mcfarlandbooks.com ISBN 9781476689203 $49.95

While more than 20 U.S.-based companies have specialized in firefighting apparatus over the past 100-plus years, American-LaFrance was arguably

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