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Hand & Horse Drawn Apparatus

 

The listing below contains information on seven of the the museum's major holdings of hand and horse drawn apparatus.  Return to the Hand and Horse Drawn Apparatus Main Page for other pieces of apparatus.

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Year
Nation
Maker
Description
 Picture
1725
England
Newsham
Hand drawn 5th size manual fire engine.  Used in England.  Bedpost style pumper. Next to largest engine built by Richard Newsham.
1740
England
Newsham
Hand drawn 3rd size manual fire engine.  Used in England.  Earliest Newshams used in New York were this size and style.
1760
England
Newsham
Hand drawn and carried manual fire engine.  Used in England.  restored by Don Hale.
1820
England
Simpson
Hand drawn manual fire engine.  Built by Simpson of Pimlico, London.  Used in England.
1838
England
Merryweather
Hand drawn manual estate fire engine
1880
England
Merryweather
Hand pushed barrow style fire engine.  Merryweather built similar engines as late as 1920 and mounted them on a motorcycle side car. 
1850
England
Shand Mason
Hand drawn manual estate fire engine.  original paint and equipment.  used in England.
 

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