[quote name='kieferfire' post='144543' date='Aug 29 2007, 06:43 ']And some from overseas:
Magirus was founded by Conrad Dietrich Magirus 1866 in Ulm/Germany
Metz was founded by Carl Metz 1842 in Heidelberg/Germany
Rosenbauer was founded by Johann Rosenbauer 1866 in Linz/Austria
Juergen[/quote]
Grumman Aeronautical Engineering was founded by Leroy Grumman in 1930. After purchasing Howe Fire Apparatus in 1976, they officially entered the fire apparatus business.
Humphrey and Dudley Pierce have no relation to George N. Pierce.
I tell the whole story of each founding in my Iconografix books on Grumman and Pierce.
Magirus was founded by Conrad Dietrich Magirus 1866 in Ulm/Germany
Metz was founded by Carl Metz 1842 in Heidelberg/Germany
Rosenbauer was founded by Johann Rosenbauer 1866 in Linz/Austria
Juergen[/quote]
Grumman Aeronautical Engineering was founded by Leroy Grumman in 1930. After purchasing Howe Fire Apparatus in 1976, they officially entered the fire apparatus business.
Humphrey and Dudley Pierce have no relation to George N. Pierce.
I tell the whole story of each founding in my Iconografix books on Grumman and Pierce.