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HME, Incorporated (HendricksonMobileEquipment) is a customfire engine manufacturer inMichigan.
The company was founded in 1913 (112 years ago) (1913) as theHendrickson Motor Truck Company by Magnus Hendrickson. Hendrickson Motor Truck Company was purchased by The Boler Company in 1978 and later sold the truck manufacturing portion in 1985. After the Atonne Group, located inWyoming, Michigan, purchased the company in 1985, the company changed to specializing in the manufacture of custom fire truck cabs and chassis. HME's fire apparatus carry the model name designations SilverFox and HMEAhrens-Fox.[1]
HME was the first custom fire truck manufacturer to build a tilt cab model cab-over chassis and the first manufacturer to create acompressed natural gas-poweredfire apparatus.
