Simon-Duplex Fire Apparatus

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About Simon-Duplex Fire Apparatus

Welcome to the Simon-Duplex Fire Apparatus Group. Fire Engines built on the Simon-Duplex chassis. The group will also accept Warner & Swasey chassis fire trucks.

Duplex started as the Duplex Power Car in Charlotte, Michigan in 1906. One of the first to build a 4x4 automobile. The company was reorganized into the Duplex Truck Company in 1916. Merger with the Warner & Swasey Company in 1955. The Duplex Division of Warner & Swasey closed down in 1975. Warner & Swasey built a few fire trucks with it's name from 1975 to 1977, then as only Duplex. In 1986, Duplex was purchase by Simon, a European Company. They changed the name to Simon-Duplex and built fire chassis til 1998, they could not find a buyer for the Duplex chassis division and they closed it down. Simon also owned Ladder Towers, Inc. (LTI) which was sold in 1997.