American LaFrance Fire Truck Gas Cap Postcard

An American LaFrance Gas Cap doubles as a hood ornament on a beautifully restored vintage fire truck in the Kansas Firefighters Museum located in the Historic Engine House No. 6 in Wichita, Kansas. The fire station opened in 1909. It was restored in 1993 and was placed on the National and Kansas Registers of Historic Places in 1994. In 1921, the Wichita Fire Department became the first fully motorized fire department in the United States. It's now a museum featuring displays of fire helmets, uniforms, badges, caps, wooden water mains, hydrants, nozzles, alarms, leather buckets, extinguishers, ladders, toys, fire related photographs, and fire manuals. The memorial garden south of the Kansas Firefighters Museum was dedicated in June, 2002. The garden includes a wall with the names of Kansas fallen firefighters, a courtyard of engraved bricks donated by family and friends and "Last Call," a life sized statue of a firefighter holding a fallen firefighter. The American LaFrance Fire Engine Company was one of the oldest fire apparatus manufacturers in America. It closed in 2014.