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Motor fire engine (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • +@nkeE.. said:
    todo eso forma parte del presente aun...
  • Steve Hagy said:
    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: Knox called Springfield, Massachusetts home and the Springfield F.D. operated a large fleet of the locally built machines including several built on the buckboard style chassis shown here.

Appleton, Gaynor, Schiff & Ridder (LOC)

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Motor engine water test (LOC)

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  • Dave Miller said:
    Probably this: “PUMPING CASCADES FOR THE FIRE CHIEFS Motor Apparatuses Draw 6,000,000 gallons form the Hudson Demonstrating Efficiency” WOMEN MOVED TO TEARS The world’s Fire Chiefs who are here attending the forty-first annual convention and fire exposition of the International Association of Fire Engineers, spent the whole of yesterday making observations at a capacity test of motor fire pumps on the pier at Fifty-fourth Street and the North River. To the thousands of residents who went to De Witt Clinton Park, overlooking the pier, the test must have appeared like an attempt to pump the Hudson River dry.” NEW YORK TIMES September 4, 1913
  • technogeo said:
    Nice detective work, puzzlemaster! This must be the event. I've found licence plates on the engines in other photos for Miss. and Minn., suggesting that it was a nationwide exposition.
  • skillful north said:
    What an amazing picture with the tall ship in the background. I love it.
  • swanq said:
    The schedule for the event is described in NYT of August 3, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04EFDD113BE633A... (Don't be confused by headline and first paragraph. The fire chiefs come later in the same column. and another report on the convention is in NYT of September 3, 1913 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0CE3DB123FE633A...
  • swanq said:
    Like Cassies grandma, I was intrigued by the "tall ship." I think it might be a coal schooner or similar east coast freighter. See pressherald.mainetoday.com/specialrpts/shipbuilding/story... for a picture of a very similar vessel, the Paul Palmer. It can't be the Paul Palmer, because she caught fire and sank off Cape Cod earlier in 1913. But apparently there was a fleet of such vessels. www.fishermensvoice.com/archives/mar01.html#bigger has a 2001 article about building such schooners in Maine. www.ahrtp.com/TallshipsOnLine/pages/PALMER1.htm is another picture of the Paul Palmer (being launched in Waldoboro, Maine in 1902)