Fire engine
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- OBJECT TYPE
- HORSE-DRAWN/STEAM PUMP/DOUBLE CRANE NECK FRAME/SECOND SIZE (700 G.P.M.)
- DATE
- 1870
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1967.0040.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Amoskeag Mfg. Co.
- MODEL
- UNION
- LOCATION
- Manchester, New Hampshire, United States of America
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- 353
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 5
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- WOOD FRAME, WHEELS & PARTS/ BRASS BOILER & PTS/ COPPER/ CAST-IRON/ SYNTHETIC OR RUBBER ? HOSE/ LEATHER OR SYNTHETIC ? COVERED SEAT PAD & SKIRT/ GLASS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 410.0 cm
- Width
- 177.0 cm
- Height
- 270.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- 2495.0
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Fire Fighting
- Category
- Fire engines
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Amoskeag
- Country
- United States of America
- State/Province
- New Hampshire
- City
- Manchester
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1867 TO AT LEAST 1900, AS ENGINE WAS STILL IN USE AT THAT DATE.
- Canada
-
THIS ENGINE WAS USED TO FIGHT THE GREAT OTTAWA-HULL FIRE OF APRIL 1900. LATTERLY IT BELONGED TO NRC BUILDING DIV., & BEFORE THAT TO NCC/ TYPE OF FIRE ENGINE BOUGHT BY CANADIAN CITIES, PARTICULARLY FROM 1860S, EG.SAINT JOHN-2 1863, 1 IN 1864; WINDSOR IN 1868, & MORE AFTER 1870. OTTAWA PURCHASED UNION IN 1870. - Function
-
Unknown - Technical
-
BUILDERS WERE THE 1ST TO INTRODUCE THE "CRANE NECK" ENGINE WHICH GREATLY REDUCED THE TURNING CIRCLE OF LARGE FIRE ENGINES, IMPROVING MANOEUVRABILITY. AMOSKEAG STEAM PUMP DESIGN WAS CONCEIVED BY N.S. BEAN, LOCOMOTIVE WORKMAN FROM MANCHESTER LOCOCMOTIVE WORKS. SIZE CORRESPONDS TO PUMPING CAPACITY OF ENGINE. STEAMERS WERE FIRST INVENTED IN 1852 BY ALEXANDER & MOSES LOTTA & ABEL SHANK. GRADUALLY THEY REPLACED HAND PUMPS IN CANADIAN CITIES, & WERE LATER GRADUALLY REPLACED BY MOTORIZED FIRE VEHICLES STARTING CA. 1910. STEAM PUMPERS WERE TYPE OF FIRE ENGINE BOUGHT BY CITIES WHICH HAD ADEQUATE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS FOR THIS TYPE OF FIRE FIGHTING. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- 1) METAL PLAQUE ON REAR READS "NO 353/ BUILT BY THE/ AMOSKEAG/ MANUFG CO/ MANCHESTER, N.H."/ 2) "UNION" PAINTED IN YELLOW W. RED & GREEN SHADOWING/ 3) METAL PLAQUE ON DEXTER SIDE OF BOILER READS "UNION" & "1870"/ 4) 2 PLAQUES READING "UNION"/ 5) PLAQUE READS "PATENTED/ JUNE 12,/ 1860"/ 6) RAISED LETTERING ON HUBS READS "PATENTED/ FEBRUARY 5, 1867"
- Missing
- unkown
- Finish
- FRAME & WHEELS PAINTED RED/ BOILER PAINTED BLACK/ BLACK HOSES & PAINTED PARTS/ UNFINISHED COPPER & BRASS/ BLACK LEATHER
- Decoration
- YELLOW STIPING & LEAF MOTIF ON FRAME/ YELLOW STRIPING ON WHEELS
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Amoskeag Mfg. Co., Fire engine, 1870, Artifact no. 1967.0040, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1967.0040.001/
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