1926 LaFrance Pumper - Fort Myers FL
Posted by: PeterNoG
N 26° 38.401 W 081° 51.983
17R E 413767 N 2946857
This Fire Fighting Vehicle is in the Southwest Florida Museum of History on Jackson Street just south of Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd in Fort Myers, Florida.
Waymark Code: WMM4BQ
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 07/19/2014
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This was not the first LaFrance Pumper in Fort Myers.
After two devastating fires in 1914, the city voted to purchase their first motor driven fire engine.
The new American LaFrance engine arrived on April 6, 1915. It cost $9,500 and was equipped with a 750 gallon per minute pumper, 1200 feet of hose and 42 feet of ladder. It had a 105 horsepower 6 cylinder engine that could travel 45 miles per hour.
It is unclear where that 1915 LaFrance went to or where this 1926 LaFrance came from.
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