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Fire pump bucket and hose

Fire pump bucket and hose

Portable fire pump

Portable fire pump

Fire pump, Midland & Great Central Railway, stirrup pump manufactured by Merryweather c.1890, ex-Ecclesfield Station.

Fire pump, Midland & Great Central Railway ex Ecclesfield Station

1890
Fire pump, red, metal cylinder on 3 feet, plate attached "Shand, Mason & Co".

Fire pump

Fire pump stirrup type, 'Regent', from Boothstown Rescue Station, coal mining use.

Fire pump stirrup type

Fire pump, London & North Eastern Railway, large wooden box on three wheels with double handle pump on top. Overall: 1420 mm x 980 mm x 2360 mm.

London & North Eastern Railway Fire Pump

Fire pump bucket and hose, coal mining use

Fire pump bucket and hose

Mather & Platt electric fire pump, used for driving a sprinkler system at Blackpool Town Hall. cast iron; A centrifugal impeller pump and motor, switchgear, resister bank for starting motor, switchgear and resistor bank (or shunt). The pump is a fine example of a Manchester-built Mather and Platt fire pump. Whereas several steam powered fire pumps of the early twentieth century survive in preservation, this is the only electrically driven pump of its era made by this famous local company which this museum has acquired at the time of writing in 2009.

Mather & Platt electric fire pump

circa 1938