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A steam fire engine recently built by Messrs. Reany, Neafie & Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., for a hose company in that city, is stated to have given great satisfaction, and is designed for city use.

is the construction of steam fire-engines, under the management and patents of Messrs. LEE & LARNED. A short time ago, there was no copy to follow, and no precedent to refer to, in adapting a ...

SUNBURY — Officials from the Sunbury Steam Fire Engine Company are offering city officials their land for $1 a year in a lease to build a new main headquarters if the city department consolidates.

The biofuel is being used to continually maintain the steam locomotive engine’s fire, which then protects their boilers. As much as 530 tons of coal was poured into three steam engines last year ...

Throughout the mid nineteenth century fire engines were either horse drawn or pulled by men, until steam power came into use later in the century. This engine was used in Banham in Norfolk.

Of late years the attention of inventors has been di-rf S,ed to the application of steam to the suction and forcing of water in fire engines ; and many powerful fire engines worked exclusively by ...

This steam fire engine was horse drawn. It was used for transferring water from lakes on the Tehidy Estate in Cornwall. Nowadays fire engines have an emergency response of just minutes from the ...