Sometimes change is good

November 16th, 2007

Fire engines of the early 1700’s were pulled to the scene of a fire by the firefighters, they would then man the seesaw hand pump. Some of these required up to forty men to pump. Most did not have a suction hose, the pump had to be filled by water buckets.

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