HME, Incorporated is a Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

 based custom truck manufacturer.

The company was founded in 1913 as Hendrickson Motor Truck Company by Mangus Hendrickson and has built over 21,000 custom trucks. It now specialises in the manufacture of custom fire truck cab & chassis under the names Spectr, 1871-W, 1871-SFO and 1871-vc. Fire apparatus carry the model name designations SilverFox and HME Ahrens-Fox.

HME was the first custom fire truck manufacturer to build a tilt cab model cab over chassis and the first manufacturer to create a Compressed Natural Gas

Compressed natural gas

Compressed natural gas is a fossil fuel substitute for gasoline , diesel, or propane/LPG. Although its combustion does produce greenhouse gases, it is a more environmentally clean alternative to those fuels, and it is much safer than other fuels in the event of a spill...

powered fire apparatus.