EWK ALF-1

The ALF-1 was an amphibious fire-fighting vehicle (ALF, from the German for amphibious fire appliance) built by Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern on the basis of its M2 amphibious bridging vehicle. It entered service with the fire department of Mainz in 1968.

According to an article in the book 'Kfz der Feuerwehr' (Oswald, Motorbuch-Verlag), passed on to the archive owner in 2002, the ALF-1 did not meet expectations, so the planned ALF-2 was never ordered. The book says the ALF-2 was never built, but correspondence from EWK suggests the company did build an ALF-2 prototype at its own cost, essentially a Bison amphibious truck with an equipment body in place of the cargo bed and modified floats. In 1985 the ALF-1 was handed to the Trier fire department for use purely as a boat.

The folder also contains photographs of a scale model of the ALF-1.