Fire Engines Photos

This one previously served one of the VFD's in Dade County, GA and was painted solid white. They got it second hand from an unknown FD in New York State.

Added by GA_Dave on 29 February 2008.

The angled four piece windshield was a characteristic of this generation of Ward La France apparatus, the so-called "Ambassador" series.

This design was intended to improve driver visibility close in to the front bumper of the vehicle - but the idea was not adopted by other manufacturers, except for an even odder reverse slope windshield adopted by rival American La France on its lower priced product line...

Most contemporary manufacturers such as Mack, ALF, Maxim and Seagrave continued to build cabs with high cowls, even though the mid-engine configuration of these meant that they could have been built with much deeper windshields too.

Added by Rob Johnson on 16 August 2017.

Actually, this cab design was introduced in 1962 and called the "Ultravision" design. The name "Ambassador" wasn't used until the 1970's and applied only to pumpers.

Added by GA_Dave on 16 August 2017.

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