Smeal Picks Up LTI.......

[GA_Dave]

Yesterday, I had a conversation with the Chief of the Etowah - Horse Shoe FD in North Carolina.  His Department operates the last apparatus delivered from L.T.I.  According to him, the only other apparatus in the factory was a tractor drawn aerial for Philadelphia that was not complete and that the PFD had already rejected, due to the demise of American LaFrance.  The company, now known as L.T.C., did not yet know what would become of the TDA.  Production will continue in the same factory under the new company, a division of Smeal.  He also told me that L.T.C. (Smeal) had purchased, from ALF, all the equipment and machinery to build the cabs and chassis used by ALF, but that the cabs would look "somewhat different".  Perhaps the Sentron will return?