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However, the new entity proved unwieldy and was restructured again in 1904.
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The company was renamed LaFrance Fire Engine Company in 1880. In 1900, Chicago industrialist Charles Locke consolidated the American Fire Engine Company, the LaFrance Fire Engine Company and other manufacturers to form the International Fire Engine Company. In 1891, Button merged with three other steam fire engine builders (Silsby, Ahrens and Clapp & Jones) to form the American Fire Engine Company. In 1873, Truckson LaFrance and a number of investors founded the LaFrance Manufacturing Company in Elmira, New York, where it manufactured, among other things, steam fire engines. Production continued under the name of Button & Blake and steam fire engines were built in the latter part of the 19th century.
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The company changed hands, and by 1841, was owned by Lysander Button. In 1832, John Rogers began building hand-operated fire in Waterford, New York. 1970 American LaFrance Pumper – American LaFrance was incorporated in 1904, but can trace its history to a period several years before that.