American Volunteer Fire Trucks [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

~ (Author), Wayne Sorensen (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Krause Publications; illustrated edition edition (March 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873412362
• ISBN-13: 978-0873412360
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #790,884 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Good Reference Guide, February 12, 2002

By	"hawkjet" (Spring, Texas) - See all my reviews

I am a serious toy fire engine collecter (over 100 and counting).
This book is an invaluable guide in dating the fire engines and support vehicles that come my way. This book contains the pictures and descriptions of fire engines used by volunteer fire departments over a 150 year span (1850-2000). One note of concern, it virtually ignores the American Lafrance company which made the cadillac of fire engines during virtually the same span of the book.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great pictures, a little too regional, February 21, 2001

By	William Howey (Northern, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This book was loaded with B/W pictures of Fire Apparatus from the early part of the century, right thru the publication of the book. Many of the pictures were from Manufacturers own archives, which gives a unique idea of what the equipment looked like pre-service. A great many of the pictures were from WI, and Western US states, with not enough from the Northeastern US.

Color pictures of some of the more noteworthy trucks would have been nice, to set off distinct eras in equipment manufacture.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great pictures, a little too regional, February 21, 2001

By	William Howey (Northern, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This book was loaded with B/W pictures of Fire Apparatus from the early part of the century, right thru the publication of the book. Many of the pictures were from Manufacturers own archives, which gives a unique idea of what the equipment looked like pre-service. A great many of the pictures were from WI, and Western US states, with not enough from the Northeastern US.

Color pictures of some of the more noteworthy trucks would have been nice, to set off distinct eras in equipment manufacture.