American LaFrance Closing

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Auctioning all the hard property off probably won't be all that hard, but I wonder about the intellectual property - particularly the names and designs of LTI and Telesquirt/Snorkel.  The major builders all have their own ladder lines, but it's possible that a mid-major might want to pick up some good designs with known reputations.  The American LaFrance name really isn't worth much anymore, I don't think. Too many problems for too long. It's interesting that no one associated with ALF (or Patriot, or whoever the holding company was) seems to be in any way available.  I would imagine that there are a lot of questions (and some very hard ones, too) that need to be answered. I do believe that anyone with any business sense at all won't try to resurrect the ALF name.