Ahrens-Fox

Ahrens-Fox, known as the Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine Company, Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine Corp., Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine Company Inc. and Ahrens-Fox/C.D. Beck & Company, was a fire apparatus manufacturer located in Ohio.

Considered a classic in fire apparatus, Ahrens-Fox was in operation between 1910 and 1956. Products included its famous piston pumpers, as well as the Model FCB cab, forerunner of the Mack C chassis. Mack had acquired C.D. Beck, which had been subcontracted to build Ahrens-Fox apparatus in 1953, and appropriated the FCB design.

In 1962, a former employee bought the remaining assets, parts, records and name of the company. These were in turn purchased by an apparatus aficionado in 1993, who leased the name to HME Incorporated. HME has resurrected the Ahrens-Fox name for a line of custom apparatus.