oshkosh industry trucks & other vehicles founded 1913 headquarters appleton wisconsin u.s.a. key people jim johnson president tom adrians cfo products fire and rescue vehicles revenue us 107.8 million 2005 number of employees 780 2005 parent oshkosh corporation website www.piercemfg.com office at headquarters factory pierce manufacturing is an appleton wisconsin based manufacturer of custom fire and rescue apparatus and a wholly owned subsidiary of oshkosh corporation . pierce was acquired by oshkosh in 1996 . the company was originally founded in 1913 by humphrey pierce and his son dudley as the pierce auto body works inc. and concentrated on building custom truck bodies for the ford model t. from the 1960s to the early 1980s pierce was primarily known for building custom bodies on commercial and other manufacturer s custom chassis and was considered an oem . although the arrow name was used for their first custom chassis which debuted in 1979 the company has no affiliation with george n. pierce s famous pierce arrow motor car company of buffalo new york which operated from 1901 to 1938 . however the pierce arrow motor car company coincidentally supplied 8 and 12 cylinder engines to seagrave for use in their fire apparatus . these engines continued to be made even after pierce arrow ceased operation in 1938 . seagrave continued to deliver fire apparatus with the pierce arrow v 12 until 1970 . throughout the years pierce has had partnerships with various other manufacturers notably when it came to aerial devices they now engineer and build all their own aerial devices in house . such aerial manufacturers included snorkel pitman aerial innovations ai ladder towers incorporated lti smeal bronto skylift and nova quintech whose assets pierce oshkosh acquired in 1997 . in addition to their main facilities in wisconsin they also have facilities in bradenton florida . the florida facility is a manufacturing site for the custom saber chassis and responder line of apparatus as well as a refurbishment center . contents 1 innovations 2 products 2.1 custom chassis 2.1.1 current 2.1.2 discontinued 2.2 commercial chassis 2.3 apparatus 3 gallery 4 references 5 external links innovations edit pierce is noted for leading the way in fire apparatus innovations including first custom tilt cab dash 1984 and custom split tilt cab lance 1985 in the industry command zone fully multiplexed chassis and aerial devices 1996 tak 4 independent front suspension 2001 side roll protection system side airbags 2003 front airbags 2006 puc 2007 products edit custom chassis edit current edit arrow xt 2003 current impel 2006 current quantum ii 2005 current saber 1992 current velocity 2006 current dash cf 2011 current enforcer 2014 current discontinued edit pierce fire truck in action . huachuca city arizona 2010 . arrow 1980 2002 dash 1984 1999 dash d 8000 1988 1992 dash 2000 1999 2007 enforcer 2000 2007 reintroduced in 2014 javelin 1990 1993 lance 1985 1993 lance ii 1993 1999 lance 2000 1999 2007 quantum 1995 2004 contender custom 1999 2010 commercial chassis edit suburban contender commercial 1999 current responder 1998 reissued 2008 current apparatus edit rearmount and midmount steel aerial ladders and quints rearmount aluminum aerial ladders and quints rearmount and midmount steel aerial platforms and quints rearmount aluminum aerial platforms tractor drawn steel aerial ladders and quints telescoping and or articulating water tower booms standard rescue and heavy duty rescue midship mount pumpers rear mount rescue pumpers mini pumpers pumper tankers tenders and elliptical tankers tenders wildland brush pumpers walk in and non walk in heavy rescues homeland security vehicles command and communication vehicles foam systems fire patrol trucks gallery edit engine 55 of the greenfields fire co pa . 1999 pierce quantum pumper 6 tower of the hillcrest fire co. 1 ny . 2002 pierce dash 2000 95 midmount aerial platform quint reserve engine 249 of the clay fire territory in . 1985 pierce dash pumper reserve ladder 18 serving the lexington fire department ky. pierce arrow 105 x ladder 1 aerial 1 serving the jackson fire department ky. 1988 pierce arrow 105 canopy cab engine 14 serving the crab orchard fire department ky. 2006 pierce contender custom cab engine 30 serving the stanton fire department ky. 2002 pierce contender freightliner crew cab engine 2 serving the jackson fire department ky. 2003 pierce contender kenworth single cab engine 10 serving the morehead fire department ky. 2005 pierce enforcer with roto ray engine 8 serving the morehead fire department ky. 1993 pierce responder international crew cab engine 3 serving the west liberty fire department ky. 1993 pierce responder international single cab engine 7 serving the morehead fire department ky. 1979 pierce hendrickson custom cab references edit shapiro l. aerial fire trucks motorbooks international june 2002 . isbn 0 7603 1065 3 company history external links edit 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