The wheelbase had grown 25 inches to 190, and overall length had been extended from 26 feet, 5 inches, to 30 feet, 4 inches. Dual foam nozzles replaced the single nozzle on the forward cab roof and four cab doors help to identify this type. The Type 0-11A became the second version. A 300 gpm Hale pump was separately powered by a small four-cylinder Continental Model PE 90 engine. The 602 cubic inch 240 hp engine gave a top speed of 60 miles per hour. Mechanically the 0-10 fit very well into the contemporary military fleet in that it used the same Continental Model R6602-71 engine used in the M-series 5-ton trucks, and the Spicer 6455 five-speed transmission and Timken T-136-1 two-speed transfer were also already in the supply system. Air Force 0-10 weighed 26,900 pounds completely loaded with 4,500 pounds of fire fighting agents, which were primarily carbon dioxide and a foam solution. Over the next eight years, American LaFrance and Marmon-Herrington built more than 1,100 of these boxy all-terrain 0-10, 0-11A and 0-11B crash trucks, which could be airlifted anywhere in the world. The first 0-10 CFR vehicle was handed over to the USAF in 1951. was awarded several large contracts to build a new generation of advanced crash fire rescue trucks for United States Air Force. Federal money was made available to purchase fire apparatus for Civil Defence and to bolster local fire protection. With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, America got the cold war jitters.
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