HME, Incorporated

Morehead Fire Department, KY. 1979 Pierce-Hendrickson custom cab Engine 7
HME Mt. Kisco (NY) Fire/Rescue 15

HME, Incorporated (Hendrickson Mobile Equipment) is a custom fire truck manufacturer in Michigan.

The company was founded in 1913 as Hendrickson Motor Truck Company by Mangus Hendrickson and has built over 21,000 custom trucks. It now specialises in the manufacture of custom fire truck cabs and chassis under the names Spectr, 1871-W, 1871-SFO and 1871-vc. Fire apparatus carry the model name designations SilverFox and HME Ahrens-Fox.[1]

HME was the first custom fire truck manufacturer to build a tilt cab model cab over chassis and the first manufacturer to create a compressed natural gas-powered fire apparatus.

References

  1. ↑ Mort, Norman (2010). American Trucks of the 1950s. https://books.google.com/books?id=aJxRkT9awN8C&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=Hendrickson+Mobile+Equipment+history&source=bl&ots=sdPUqOwB12&sig=ZTeZ_P1QVlKFEs1uwwG1iatvIFI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjBpYiphePRAhVr1oMKHS4EDU8Q6AEIQjAG#v=onepage&q=Hendrickson%20Mobile%20Equipment%20history&f=false: Veloce Publishing Ltd. p. 44.
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