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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.

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.

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.

Our engraving represents a side elevation of a compact form of steam fire engine, manufactured by Silsby, Mynderse Co., which is a modification of theplai and arrangement of the parts of the one ...

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 ...