Curtis-Heiser

The George Heiser Body Company is an American truck body fabricator, paint and repair service located in Seattle, Washington. The company roots go back to 1908 as the Motor Sheet Metal Works manufacturing sheet metal automobile parts. The company built fire apparatus from about 1940 to 1980 much of it in association with L.N. Curtis using the Curtis-Heiser name.

The George Heiser Body Company still exists, but it no longer produces fire equipment.

History
The company had a long association with nearby Seattle based Kenworth trucks providing them with body parts, truck cabs and bus bodies. In 1940 they built their first fire apparatus based on a Kenworth truck.

In 1948 L.N. Curtis, a large west coast fire equipment dealer began a relationship with the company. Over the next 32 years most of the apparatus built by the George Heiser Body Company would be done in association with L.N. Curtis using the Curtis-Heiser name. In 1980 both companies stopped producing fire apparatus. Curtis-Heiser frequently built apparatus on a Kenworth heavy truck chassis.