FABCO

FABCO was a truck parts manufacturer founded in Oakland, CA. Now FABCO Automotive the company is based in Livermore, CA providing specialty drive train parts for medium and heavy duty trucks. These parts include severe duty tandem drive axles and all wheel drive systems. FABCO built complete fire apparatus from 1930 to 1945.

History
The F.A.B. Manufacturing Company was established in 1918 to build barrel pumps. F,A,B stood for the three owners. In 1919 they started to offer extended truck frames for the Model T and TT. The company name was later changed to FABCO and by the late 1920s they had expanded into specialty truck and trailer equipment primarily for the agriculture and logging industry. Around 1930 FABCO began to manufacture of fire apparatus and buses. They developed a custom chassis for fire apparatus in 1939. During WW2 FABCO was awarded contracts to build fire apparatus and firefighting trailers for the U.S. Military.

After the war the company decided to focus on the manufacture of all wheel drive units and other specialized medium and heavy duty truck equipment. The fire apparatus division was sold in 1946 to a group of employees who would start Coast Apparatus Inc.