firehoses

Incredible photograph! Many thanks!

fire truck?? what a long hose..

Classic trucks. And the pile of hoses is very drawing.

the Autopiano factory and headquarters in the background was in NY. Amazingly, this may be the only photo identifiable as that building on the web, google doesn't have any images of it.

In 1913, the International Association of Fire Engineers (now the International Association of Fire Chiefs) held their 41st annual conference in New York City. One component of the event was a competition for the newly developed motorized pumper. On September 3 at 6:30 a.m., the 12-hour pump test began with 11 pieces of apparatus competing. A length of hard suction hose was used by each engine to draft water from the Hudson River. Overall performance of the equipment was determined by using a point system. The motor had to remaining running during the complete 12-hour test period. Apparatus from the following companies began the event. Ahrens-Fox American LaFrance - Two units Knox Luietweiler Nott - Two units Robinson - Two units Seagrave Waterous Eight of the engines completed the test. The Luietweiler, one Nott and one Robinson failed. The Ahrens-Fox earned the highest score. In addition to this information, I have added a few notes to some of the other photos in this grouping. In this photo: The two Nott fire engines that participated are pumping.

Spaarnestad Photo/SFA006000376 Second world war, battle for United Kingdom. Londoners off to their work after large bombing raid of 29 December 1941. The streets still full with fire hoses. United Kingdom, London, 29 December 1941. Hi, I'm an admin for a group called London at war, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

This was the day of the big City raid, when the iconic pic of St Paul's rising above the flames was taken. So it is most likely in The City somewhere, but I can't quite place that tube station, things've changed a lot down there. [ EDIT: Ah. The raid I'm referring to was 29 Dec 1940. So I'm not sure this photo isn't misdated, for the reason that heavy raids on London ceased after May 1941, though there still were lighter attacks. I can't find any reference to a heavy raid on this date. 'The last major attack on London was on 10 May [1941]: 515 bombers destroyed or damaged many important buildings, including the British Museum, the Houses of Parliament and St. James's Palace. The raid caused more casualties than any other: 1,364 killed and 1,616 seriously injured.[7] Six days later 111 bombers attacked Birmingham; this was the last major air raid on a British city for about a year and a half.' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz ]

Its Holborn isnt it Fin??

I don't think so, Lud. It might be Moorgate.

Ah right I was going with the entrance to the tube which looked like the Holborn entrance. Its just a bit blurred or we could read the underground sign.

In 1913, the International Association of Fire Engineers (now the International Association of Fire Chiefs) held their 41st annual conference in New York City. One component of the event was a competition for the newly developed motorized pumper. On September 3 at 6:30 a.m., the 12-hour pump test began with 11 pieces of apparatus competing. A length of hard suction hose was used by each engine to draft water from the Hudson River. Overall performance of the equipment was determined by using a point system. The motor had to remaining running during the complete 12-hour test period. Apparatus from the following companies began the event. Ahrens-Fox American LaFrance - Two units Knox Luietweiler Nott - Two units Robinson - Two units Seagrave Waterous Eight of the engines completed the test. The Luietweiler, one Nott and one Robinson failed. The Ahrens-Fox earned the highest score. In addition to this information, I have added notes to the other photos in this grouping. In this photo: the Robinson engines are to the front with the Knox behind them.