Fire Engines Photos

Oh, definitely more pictures please, Dave - especially of its "workings", and operation, in steam.

There's only a few of them, on this 'Site; where the vehicle 4-legged power "burns hay" and the pump "burns coal".....

And, Pic # 19011 has a discussion going, on William Rose Steamer vs Shand Mason Steamer differences; and we don't have enough pictures to see.....

And, to show today's generation, that "The Stuff", didn't always come "From Above"; in those days, the crews had to shovel it out, from the Horse Stables.......

Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B

Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 06 January 2010.

And that is my mate Roger in the picture.....I dont think he can get into that fire tunic now !!!!!! Sorry Rog didnt mean it !!!!!

Added by Barrie Green on 06 January 2010.

I've never been sure where the 1876 date and provenance of the "Chester" LB Vertical came from.
Chester originally had a "medium-sized" Merryweather Greenwich which was a twin cylinder horizontal with eccentric-operated slidevalves. I have a photo of the The Earl Of Chester's Volunteer Brigade with Steamer, Manual and Wheeled escape ( and at least three different patterns of uniform - maybe for the different crews? ). The only example of a Greenwich still working is the TEHIDY HOUSE engine well cared for by Charlie Daniel. There is another in Liverpool Museum Collections - the 1800 gpm HOLT.


Added by John Carstairs Hallam on 17 August 2010.

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