MOTORIZED AERIAL LADDERS BY MAKE
NEWARK FIRE DEPARTMENT

This is a listing of the 57 motorized aerial ladder trucks, and 10 tractors used to motorize horse-drawn aerials, that have served in the NFD for the 90-year period from 1913 to 2003. They are listed by make with the total number in parentheses. The two snorkels, nor the ladder tower, nor horse-drawn city trucks, have been listed, as they are not aerial ladders. The year shows how many pieces were purchased, their NFD Shop register numbers, and what companies the rigs served with

AHRENS-FOX (8 plus 1 tractor)

1925 (3 plus 1 tractor)
Reg. 0054 - Trucks 6-4-14 (Trailer attached to a 1925 Ahrens-Fox tractor, Reg. 56)
Reg. 0055 - Trucks 11-5-9-13
Reg. 0056 - Truck 4 (Tractor - Attached to a 1925 Ahrens-Fox trailer, Reg. 54)
Reg. 0061 - Trucks 11-15

1927 (2)
Reg. 0087 - Trucks 1-10-14-4-14-6-14
Reg. 0090 - Trucks 3-12-15

1930 (3)
Reg. 0025 - Trucks 2-3-9-11
Reg. 0031 - Trucks 5-10
Reg. 0063 - Trucks 1-3-7-6-12

AMERICAN LAFRANCE (8)

1913 (1)
Reg. 0051 - Trucks 9-1-7

1936 (1)
Reg. 0002 - Trucks 1-2-7

1938 (1)
Reg. 0001 - Trucks 1-12-6 (Trailer attached to a 1942 Mack tractor)

1940 (1)
Reg. 0009 - Truck 8

1949 (3)
Reg. 0028 - Trucks 2-11-12
Reg. 0044 - Truck 4
Reg. 0048 - Trucks 9-8

1978 - (1)
Reg. 1002 - Trucks 11-6 (Also Reg. 1352)

BOYD (1)

1914 (1)
Reg. 0052 - Trucks 9-2 (Tractor replaced with a Christie Front-Drive tractor)

CHRISTIE FRONT-DRIVE (4 tractors)
Note: Two additional tractors were purchased in 1915, for a grand total of six, but they were attached to Gleason & Bailey city service trucks, not aerials, therefore they are not listed here.

1915 (1)
Reg. 0000 - Trucks 5-3 (Attached to a 1909 American LaFrance horse-drawn aerial - Replaced by an FWD tractor)

1916 (3)
Reg. 0000 - Truck 2 (Attached to the 1914 Boyd trailer)
Reg. 0000 - Trucks 3-7 (Attached to a 1907 American LaFrance horse-drawn aerial - Replaced by an FWD tractor)
Reg. 0000 - Truck 9 (Attached to a 1902 American LaFrance horse-drawn aerial - Replaced by an FWD tractor)

COMMERCIAL (1)

1918 (1)
Reg. 0018 - Trucks 5-6 (Attached to a 1925 Ahrens-Fox tractor - Replaced by the 1942 Mack tractor)

EMERGENCY-ONE (15)

1985 (1)
Reg. 1110 - Truck 1 (Quint - Also Reg. 1301)

1986 (2)
Reg. 1109 - Trucks 9-4 (Also Reg. 1309)
Reg. 1111 - Trucks 11-7 (Also Reg. 1307)

1987 (2)
Reg. 1112 - Truck 12 (Also Reg. 1312)
Reg. 1113 - Truck 8 - (Also Reg. 1308)

1989 (2)
Reg. 1104 - Trucks 11-7 (Also Reg. 1311)
Reg. 1105 - Truck 6 (Also Reg. 1306)

1991 (1)
Reg. 1319 - Trucks 9-4

1992 (1)
Reg. 1320 - Truck 10

1994 (1)
Reg. 1315 - Truck 5

1996 (1)
Reg. 1321 - Trucks 11-7
 

1997 (1)
Reg. 1323 - Truck 9

1999 (1)
Reg. 1324 - Truck 12

2003 (1)
Reg. 1303 - Truck 11

F.W.D. (3 tractors)
Note: An additional tractor was purchased in 1922, for a grand total of four, but it was attached to a Gleason & Bailey city service truck, not an aerial, therefore it is not listed here.

1922 (2)
Reg. 0060 - Trucks 4-10-12 (Attached to a 1903 American LaFrance horse-drawn aerial)

1923 (2)
Reg. 0057 - Trucks 7-13 (Attached to a 1907 American LaFrance horse-drawn aerial - Replaced Christie)
Reg. 0059 - Trucks 4-9 (Attached to 1909, and 1902 American LaFrance horse-drawn aerials - Replaced Christie)

MACK (2 plus 1 tractor)

1922 (2)
Reg. 0052 - Trucks 2-9-7
Reg. 0053 - Trucks 3-8

1942 (1 tractor)
Reg. 0056 - Truck 6 (Attached to the 1918 Commercial trailer) - Wagon 1 - Truck 6 (Attached to the 1938 American-LaFrance trailer)

MAXIM (1)

1959 (1)
Reg. 0018 - Truck 2

PIRSCH (8)

1944 (2)
Reg. 0012 - Trucks 3-6
Reg. 0059 - Trucks 5-10-12

1953 (3)
Reg. 0024 - Trucks 2-7 (Tractor attached to 1953 Pirsch trailer, Reg. 33)
Reg. 0027 - Trucks 5-9
Reg. 0033 - Trucks 3-10 (Trailer attached to 1953 Pirsch tractor, Reg. 24)

1956 (1)
Reg. 0005 - Trucks 1-11

1962 (1)
Reg. 0011 - Trucks 5-8

1964 (1)
Reg. 0031 - Truck 3 (Also Reg. 31F)

SEAGRAVE (12)

1969 (1)
Reg. 0038 - Trucks 9-12 (Trailer attached to 1983 White tractor - Also Regs. 38F, 1038, 1323, 1353)

1972 (3)
Reg. 0077 - Truck 7 (Also Regs. 77F, 1077)
Reg. 0080 - Truck 10 (Also Regs. 80F, 1080)
Reg. 0081 - Trucks 11-8 (Also Regs. 81F, 1081)

1973 (2)
Reg. 0055 - Truck 5 (Also Regs. 55F, 1055)
Reg. 0082 - Truck 2 (Also Regs. 82F, 1082)

1974 (2)
Reg. 0040 - Trucks 4-7 (Also Regs. 1040, 1351)
Reg. 0083 - Trucks 3-2 (Also Reg. 1083)

1975 (1)
Reg. 0089 - Trucks 9-7-4-5 (Also Regs. 1089, 1304)

1982 (3)
Reg. 1001 - Trucks 1-4 (Also Reg. 1354)
Reg. 1016 - Trucks 12-5 (Also Reg. 1305)
Reg. 1100 - Truck 10 (Also Reg. 1310)

WARD LAFRANCE (1)

1966 (1)
Reg. 0039 - Trucks 9-6

WHITE (1 tractor)

1983 (1)
Reg. 1038 - Truck 5 (Attached to 1969 Seagrave trailer)