An Illustrated Handbook of Fire Apparatus: With Emphasis on 19th Century American PiecesA pictorial guide to the evaluation of fire fighting equipment. |
Contents
List of Illustrations | 7 |
Hand Operated Squirts Pumps and Engines | 17 |
Hose Carts Carriages Wagons and Chemical Engines | 41 |
Copyright | |
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Aerial ladder Aerial ladder truck Air chamber American LaFrance B/W ill BALTIMORE Basic history Beck Engraving Company Bedford Boston Brake arm bucket brigades century Cincinnati coffee mill Crane-neck frame cylinder Date model designed developed Discharge double-deck Drawing by Beck Drawing by Joseph end-stroke FDNY fire apparatus fire fighting FIRE TUBE BOILER firefighting firemen goose-neck hand drawn hand engine characterized HOOK AND LADDER HORIZONTAL PISTON HORIZONTAL ROTARY PUMP horse drawn hose carriage hose cart hose reel hose wagon Hunneman Illustration JOHN Joseph Parry LaFrance Latta maker unknown MANUFACTURING MASS Molloy N.Y. NEW YORK Newsham OHIO Philadelphia Fire Philadelphia Fire Department Philadelphia style Photo Mills piano box PISTON AND PUMP PISTON PUMP professional department Richard Newsham self-propelled SENECA FALLS side-crank side-stroke Silsby SINGLE PISTON siphona steam fire engine Steamer built steamer frames steamer pumps straight frame style of hand Suction hose Term used interchangeably water tube boiler York Fire Department York style