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Mitchell Type R Raceabout 1911

A “racing” car from the early 1910s,Equipped with an impressive overhead valve engine that delivers 30 HP.The engine has a starter motor and starts easily.The gearbox has 3 gears and operates normally.This Mitchell rides well.The Mitchell was part of the famous Lindley Bothwell collection in Los Angeles (USA) f..
1924 American-LaFrance Type 40 Combination Chemical and Hose Fire Truck | The Quail Auction 2026

Register No. 4867 Built in 1924, this American-Lafrance Type 40 Combination truck represents the kind of purpose-built fire apparatus that helped define American municipal fire service in the interwar years. Equipped with double-chain drive and powered by a 75-horsepower, 570 cu-in T-head four-cylinder engine, it was supplied new to the City..
Mitchell Type R Raceabout 1911

A “racing” car from the early 1910s, Equipped with an impressive overhead valve engine that delivers 30 HP. The engine has a starter motor and starts easily. The gearbox has 3 gears and operates normally. This Mitchell rides well. The Mitchell was part of the famous Lindley Bo..

Mitchell

US, 1903 – 1923

(1) Mitchell Motor Car Co, Racine, Wisc., 1903 – 1910

(2) Mitchell-Lewis Motor Co, Racine, Wisc., 1910 – 1916

(3) Mitchell Motors Co Inc, Racine, Wisc., 1916 – 1923

Mitchell and Lweis had been wagon builders since 1834, and their first Mitchell car was a light two-seater powered by a 7hp air-cooled 2-cylinder engine, using single chain drive, and priced at $1.200. In 1905 a 9hp engine was used on the Mitchell car, and air or water cooling was available. 4-cylinder engines of 18 and 30hp appeared in the 1906 Mitchell car range, and in 1907 shaft drive was employed on all Mitchell car models. Until 1910, 20 and 35hp fours were made, having pair-cast cylinders in 1910 when they were joined by a 50hp 6-cylinder Mitchell car. In 1913 a new range of T-head engines was introduced in a Mitchell car designed by René Petard and known as the ‘American-built French car’. A 40hp four and 50 and 60hp sixes were made in this Mitchell car range, which had high-cowled torpedo-style bodies and electric starters. Piston strokes were very long at 7 inches. At this time it was said that the Mitchell car company made 96% of all components. In 1916 a short-lived Mitchell 48hp V8 was made, and the following year the Mitchell car company settled down to making a range of conventional sixes of no great distinction. In 1920 a sloping radiator gave rise to the epithet, ‘the drunken Mitchell’ and this was hastily replaced by a vertical radiator for 1921. However, the company had lost a lot of money on their 1920 Mitchell car models, and few of the redesigned Mitchell cars were sold, as they lacked any distinctive qualities.

The 6-cylinder engines of the Mitchell car had acapacity of 4.7-litres. After production ceased in 1923, the Mitchell car factory was bought by Nash.

Source: Georgano, encyclopedia of motorcar; GNG

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American LaFrance

US, 1907 – 2014

LaFrance Manufacturing Company

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 Truxton Slocum 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. American LaFrance (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

Historic vehicles

Type 1 1903-1904 Steam-powered Combination Hose & ChemicaL Wagon
Type 3 1906-1906 Packard "N" Two-Tank ChemicaL Car - only 1 built
Type 4 1909-1912 Simplex based chassis - 2 built (see also Technisches Museum Sinsheim site )
Type 5 1910-1911 First complete ALF motor fire apparatus - 4 cyl.
Type 6 1910-1914 LaFrance Commercial truck
Type 8 1908-1910 ALF roadster type passenger car
Type 10 1911-1920 Improved larger version of Type 5
Type 12 1911-1925 6 cyl. 800, 900 & 1000 GPM pumper (see also in Riga Motor Museum)
Type 14 1912-1926 City service ladder truck
Type 15 1913-1925 1400 GPM Pump and hose car
Type 16 1912-1916 Front drive aerial ladder truck
Type 17 1913-1926 Tractor drawn - aerial, water tower, ladder
Type 18 1913-1913 2-wheel front-drive steam fire engine tractor
Type 19 1915-1928 1000 GPM Pump and hose car, 6 cyl.
Type 25 1914-1914 Front drive, straight frame aerial ladder
Type 28 1915-1915 Front drive service ladder truck
Type 30 1914-1914 Front drive, bevel-gear drive water tower
Type 31 1915-1929 2-wheel front-drive tractor
Type 32 1915-1927 LaFrance/Model "T" Ford, Alf "F" series
Type 33 1917-1926 Front drive straight frame service ladder truck
Type 34 1916-1916 Centrifugal pumper
Type 52 1922-1927 "Village Queen" Model "T" Ford trailer pump
Type 65 19??-19?? 400 GPM Junior pumper
Type 75 1915-1927 750 GPM 6 cyl Pumper - large number built
Type 91 1927-1927 500 GPM Pumper - Buda-6 cycl. engine
Type 92 1927-1927 600 GPM Pumper - Buda-6 cycl. engine
Type 94 19??-19?? Service ladder truck, Buda-6 cycl.
Type 96 19??-19?? Same as Type 94 but configured as a Quad
Type 99 1927-1932 GMC Cosmopolitan, Buick 6-cyl. - see 100 series
Type 500 1941-1946 Narrow cab and body design
Type 600 1941-1946 Narrow cab and body design
100 Series 1926-1929 Metropolitan
200 Series 1929-1931 Master
300 Series 1931-1935 V-12 powered, 312A
400 Series 1933-1938 Junior 450/600/475 GPM
400 Series 1935-1940 Senior1000/1250/1500 pump-in-cowl design
500 Series 1938-1941 New enclosed streamlined design
600 Series 1941-1946 Improved 500 Series
JO/JOX Series 1938-1946 mid-mount aerial ladder - Cab-ahead
700 Series 1947-1959 Cab-ahead-of-engine design
800 Series 1956-1958 Updated 700 Series (Pumpers only)
900 Series 1958-1974 New wide-cab design
Pioneer I, II & III 1964-1978 Also Sparton I TCM flat-panel cab
Pacemaker 1973-1976 TCM canopy cab-forward
1000 Series 1970-1974 Premium version of 900 Series
Century Series 1974-1985 New wider cab
Century 2000 1986-1994 Redesign by Kersey/ALF
Patriot 1992-1994
ALF Eagle 1996–2014 All-new custom chassis
ALF Metropolitan 1999–2014 Entry-level custom chassis
Freightliner Business Class, M2 2002–2014 Commercial chassis