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Fire Engines (Paperback)
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Fire Engines (Paperback)
Series: Shire Library, 852
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More complex and imposing than any other vehicle in the British
emergency services, the fire engine has a long and interesting
history. The earliest water pumps had been developed by the
eighteenth century - basic manual pumps that had to be hauled
around by people or horses, and were often only used on
fire-insured premises. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
horse-drawn, steam-powered fire engines, and eventually motorised
fire engines, came to revolutionise firefighting, offering far
greater versatility and the brigades came to be run by the
municipalities. In this beautifully illustrated introduction, Eddie
Baker charts the history of fire engines and their variants, and
the increasingly complex equipment they have carried, such as
high-rise ladders and high-pressure hoses. He also explains the
wider history of the fire service and how the engines have been
shaped by its needs and, most importantly, those of the
firefighters themselves.
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