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About those Henderson KY rigs. The one as E6 has no Ward id plates on it anywhere. inside the cab is a Midwest plate however complete with the Ward 80series # listed as the "chassis" and 31584 listed as the "serial". I'm guessing that Midwest was the Ward dealer at the time? The guys at Henderson have told me that they've never bought any modern rigs used;everything has been new. Was there also a 1973 listed as being delivered to Indy or the Indy area dealer? If so, thats probably the other Henderson rig(E4).
I do show a 1972, 80-651 with a delivery date of 3/31/72, that is listed as Indianapolis, IN, just like the other one was. Does anyone know if the Indianapolis FD ever had any Ambassador pumpers?
O.K., this is the first time I've read this thread and I started on the last page and I'm going forward. I don't recall seeing this question answered so hopefully I'm not repeating something that was previously posted. Midwest Fire & Safety out of Indianapolis was noted for many years as being the sales distributor for Boyer apparatus in Indiana and Kentucky for a loooooong time. Midwest then went on to sell a whole lot of Pierce fire engines (they are no longer a Pierce dealer as of last year). Anyway, for a couple of years in between Boyer and Pierce, Midwest sold, come on, guess, fill in the blanks, W rd L F an e apparatus. I recall at least one Ford/WLF rig that had no WLF identification, but was identified on the Midwest name plate with a WLF serial number (didn't Firefox in Houston do something similar?).
Also, to the best of my knowledge Henderson does not/has not purchased used apparatus.
Steve
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