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Worldwide Steam Fire Engine Register
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The aim of this page is to list surviving steam fire engines/pumps around the world, with details such as serial number, date of manufacture and location. If you have any additions or corrections to the list then please email me. The engines are listed alphabetically by manufacturer below.
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C. Ahrens & Co. / Ahrens Manufacturing Co. (USA)
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The Ahrens story begins with Alexander "Moses" Latta of Cincinnati, Ohio, who is widely credited with building the first successful steam fire engine in the USA in 1852. One of the employees at the Latta works was a young German-born apprentice named Chris Ahrens, and when the A. B. & E. Latta firm sold out to Lane & Bodley in 1863, Ahrens was placed in charge of fire engine production. In 1868 the business was sold to Ahrens, who renamed it C. Ahrens & Co., and a number of improvements were made to Latta's original designs. A further name change came in 1877 when the firm became known as the Ahrens Manufacturing Co., and over the next few decades Ahrens engines would develop an enviable reputation, winning numerous competitions and holding every steam fire engine world record. In 1891 Ahrens joined with rivals Silsby, Button and Clapp & Jones to form the American Fire Engine Co., but continued to develop and produce its own designs.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 32 |
1873 |
2nd size |
Butler County Historical Society, Hamilton, Ohio, USA |
| 182 |
1877 |
3rd size |
Michigan Firehouse Museum, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA |
| 202 |
1878 |
4th size |
Daviess County Historical Society, Washington, Indiana, USA |
| 274 |
1881 |
2nd size |
Oshkosh Public Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA |
| 378 |
1883 |
3rd size |
Carillon Historical Park, Dayton, Ohio, USA |
| 392 |
1884 |
3rd size |
Dallas Firefighters Museum, Dallas, Texas, USA |
| 394 |
1884 |
3rd size |
Cincinnati Fire Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| 415 |
1884 |
5th size |
St Paris, Ohio, USA |
| 425 |
1885 |
4th size |
Arcanum Fire Dept, Ohio, USA |
| 433 |
1885 |
5th size |
Seymour Fire Dept, Indiana, USA |
| 457 |
1886 |
5th size |
Wayne Township Fire Dept, Ohio, USA |
| 459 |
1886 |
4th size |
Jacksonville Fire Dept, Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
| 481 |
1887 |
5th size |
Ripley Museum, Ripley, Ohio, USA |
| 487 |
1887 |
6th size |
Allen County Museum, Lima, Ohio, USA |
| 532 |
1888 |
4th size |
Grant's Farm, St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| 541 |
1888 |
5th size |
Western Reserve Fire Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| 543 |
1888 |
3rd size |
Calico Ghost Town, California, USA |
| 544 |
1888 |
3rd size |
Los Angeles County Fire Museum, Bellflower, California, USA |
| 549 |
1888 |
3rd size |
McKinley Museum, Canton, Ohio, USA |
| 555 |
1889 |
5th size |
Morrow Fire Dept, Morrow, Ohio, USA |
| 564 |
1888 |
2nd size |
Grant's Farm, St Louis, Missouri, USA |
| 577 (1) |
1889 |
4th size |
Yakima Valley Museum, Yakima, Washington, USA |
| 605 |
1890 |
4th size |
Clinton County Historical Society, Wilmington, Ohio, USA |
| 626 (2) |
1890 |
2nd size |
Heritage Park of North Iowa, Forest City, Iowa, USA |
| 641 |
1891 |
5th size |
Belle Plaine Fire Dept, Belle Plaine, Iowa, USA |
| 668 |
1892 |
3rd size |
Tower-Soudan Historical Society, Tower, Minnesota, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Ghost Town, Murdo, South Dakota, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Cannonsburgh Village, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA |
| (1) Rebuilt with Nott boiler and rebadged as Nott No.568. |
| (2) Fitted with LaFrance engine/pump. |
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Ahrens Fire Engine Co. / Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine Co. (USA)
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In 1905 Ahrens left the American Fire Engine Co. conglomerate to form the Ahrens Fire Engine Co. One of the key figures in the company at this time was Charles Fox, son-in-law of Chris Ahrens himself and a talented engineer. He pioneered a number of innovations such as a new design of boiler with vertical tubes, and the "Columbian" steam fire engine, the first to carry its own hoses on board. In 1910 the importance of Fox's contributions was reflected in a change in the company's name to the Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine Co. The first petrol-powered engine was unveiled the following year, the first of many innovations in self-propelled engine design, and Ahrens-Fox went on to build an unassailable reputation for the highest-quality fire engines over subsequent decades.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 104 |
1905 |
1st size Continental |
Southeastern Railway Museum, Duluth, Georgia, USA |
| 106 |
1906 |
3rd size Continental |
Galion Historical Society, Galion, Ohio, USA |
| 110 |
1906 |
X1 size |
Old Firehouse & Police Museum, Superior, Wisconsin, USA |
| 112 |
1906 |
2nd size Continental |
Beerbower Park, McCleary, Washington, USA |
| 123 |
1907 |
3rd size Continental |
Everett Fire Dept, Everett, Washington, USA |
| 125 |
1907 |
3rd size Continental |
Ohio Historical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| 131 |
1907 |
2nd size Continental |
Valdez Museum, Valdez, Alaska, USA |
| 135 |
1907 |
2nd size Continental |
Aurora Regional Fire Museum, Illinois, USA |
| 139 |
1909 |
3rd size Continental |
Central Mutual Insurance Company, Van Wert, Ohio, USA |
| 140 |
1908 |
3rd size Continental |
Charleston Civic Center, Charleston, West Virginia, USA |
| 155 |
1908 |
2nd size Continental |
Michigan Firehouse Museum, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA |
| 170 |
1909 |
1st size Continental |
Schuylkill Historical Fire Society, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 179 |
1910 |
1st size Continental |
Fire Museum of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA |
| 184 |
1911 |
3rd size Continental |
Friendship Fire Co. Museum, Woodbury, New Jersey, USA |
| 199 (1) |
1913 |
2nd size Continental |
Nethercutt Museum, Sylmar, California, USA |
| 205 (2) |
1916 |
2nd size Continental |
New Hampshire, USA |
| (1) Fitted with 1913 Christie tractor. |
| (2) Last steam fire engine built by Ahrens-Fox; mounted on a White truck chassis. |
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Allerton Iron Works (USA)
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The Allerton Iron Works Manufacturing Company was formed in 1868 at Naugatuck, Connecticut and built a small number of steam fire engines over the next few years, including several for the city of New York. The company subsequently relocated to Newark, Connecticut and then to New Haven, and was known as C.G. Allerton & Co. and later Allerton & Stevens. In one form or another it is believed to have continued building steamers until the mid-1880s.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 12 |
1869 |
n/a |
Wayne County Historical Society, Wooster, Ohio, USA |
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American Fire Engine Co. / American-LaFrance (USA)
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The American Fire Engine Company was formed in 1891 as a joint venture between the Silsby Manufacturing Co. of Seneca Falls, New York, the Ahrens Manufacturing Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, the Clapp & Jones Manufacturing Co. of Hudson, New York, and the Button Fire Engine Co. of Waterford, New York. The idea of the merger was to reduce losses resulting from competition and legal disputes over patent rights, although each firm retained its own separate factory and products line. New models of engine were also introduced, the first of which was the "Columbian" (see above) that was designed for suburban fire stations of large cities. Around 1898 the "Metropolitan" model appeared, which would go on to become the company's best selling engine. On 14th December 1899, the American Fire Engine Co. joined forces with a number of other manufacturers of fire apparatus to form the International Fire Engine Company, with the aim of completely eliminating all competition of among fire equipment manufacturers. By 1904, however, the new venture was in trouble; unable to raise enough capital to cover its debts it went into receivership, and the surviving constituent companies went their own ways again. American took the decision to join forces with one of its former greatest rivals, the LaFrance Fire Engine Co. of Elmira, New York, to form the American-LaFrance Fire Engine Company, a name which would later become synonymous with the manufacture of fire engines in the United States.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 2104 |
1892 |
3rd size Ahrens |
Chattanooga Fire Dept, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA |
| 2106 |
1892 |
3rd size Ahrens |
Houston Fire Museum, Houston, Texas, USA |
| 2110 |
1892 |
3rd size Ahrens |
Gahanna, Ohio, USA |
| 2117 |
1892 |
2nd size Silsby |
FDNY Fleet Services Division, New York, USA |
| 2133 |
1892 |
4th size Silsby |
Downingtown Fire Dept, Downingtown, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 2142 |
1893 |
3rd size Ahrens |
Chicago Fire Academy, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 2215 |
1893 |
3rd size Silsby |
Jefferson, Wisconsin, USA |
| 2250 |
1893 |
3rd size Ahrens |
Rushville Fire Dept, Rushville, Indiana, USA |
| 2252 |
1894 |
3rd size Ahrens |
Loveland-Symmes Fire Dept, Ohio, USA |
| 2268 (1) |
1894 |
3rd size Clapp & Jones |
Woodland Fire Museum, Woodland, California, USA |
| 2272 |
1894 |
4th size Silsby |
USA |
| 2328 |
1895 |
3rd size Ahrens |
Los Angeles County Fire Museum, Bellflower, California, USA |
| 2359 |
1895 |
3rd size American |
Norwich Fire Dept, Norwich, New York, USA |
| 2378 |
1895 |
3rd size American |
Millers Mutual Insurance, Lansing, Michigan, USA |
| 2364 |
1895 |
5th size Ahrens |
Leipsic, Ohio/Toledo Firefighters Museum, Toledo, Ohio, USA |
| 2372 |
1895 |
5th size Silsby |
Middleport Fire Dept, Middleport, New York, USA |
| 2386 |
1895 |
5th size Ahrens |
Oxford Fire Dept, Oxford, Ohio, USA |
| 2392 |
1895 |
2nd size Clapp & Jones |
Dawson City Fire Dept, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada |
| 2428 |
1896 |
2nd size Ahrens |
New Orleans Fire Dept Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| 2437 |
1896 |
Clapp & Jones |
Bomberos de Los Andes, Valparaíso, Chile |
| 2453 |
1896 |
3rd size Silsby |
Easton Volunteer Fire Dept, Easton, Maryland, USA |
| 2471 |
1896 |
5th size Silsby |
Fire Museum, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA |
| 2483 |
1896 |
3rd size Silsby |
Wissahickon Fire Co, Ambler, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 2606 |
1898 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Dr. Lester L. Williams Fire Museum, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA |
| 2639 |
1899 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Los Angeles County Fire Museum, Bellflower, California, USA |
| 2640 (2) |
1899 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Community Volunteer Fire Company No.1, Wayne, New Jersey, USA |
| 2642 |
1899 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Fire Museum of Maryland, Lutherville, Maryland, USA |
| 2653 |
1899 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Washington, USA |
| 2665 |
1899 |
4th size Clapp & Jones |
Sanfilippo Estate, Barrington Hills, Illinois, USA |
| 2676 (3) |
1899 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
San Jose Fire Museum, San Jose, California, USA |
| 2686 |
1899 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Last Resort Fire Dept Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA |
| 2695 |
1899 |
4th size Ahrens |
Aberdeen, Mississippi, USA |
| 2696 |
1899 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Greater Southwest Historical Museum, Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA |
| 2690 |
1899 |
1st size Silsby |
Task Force Tips Museum, Valparaiso, Indiana, USA |
| 2722 |
1900 |
5th size Metropolitan |
Michigamme Museum, Michigamme, Michigan, USA |
| 2723 |
1900 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Williams County Historical Museum, Montpelier, Ohio, USA |
| 2737 |
1900 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Venerable Fire Company Museum, Slinger, Wisconsin, USA |
| 2741 |
1900 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Fort Smith Museum of History, Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA |
| 2765 |
1900 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, USA |
| 2789 |
1901 |
1st size Metropolitan |
El Paso Firefighters Museum, El Paso, Texas, USA |
| 2797 |
1901 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
New York State Museum, Albany, New York, USA |
| 2806 |
1901 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Music House Museum, near Traverse City, Michigan, USA |
| 2807 |
1901 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Parque de los Bomberos, Matanzas, Cuba |
| 2813 |
1902 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Charlotte Fire Dept, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA |
| 2821 |
1902 |
X1 size Metropolitan |
Kansas Firefighters Museum, Wichita, Kansas, USA |
| 2823 |
1902 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
San Diego Firehouse Museum, San Diego, California, USA |
| 2824 (4) |
1902 |
X1 size Metropolitan |
Oregon, USA |
| 2844 |
1902 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Pioneer Memorial Museum, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| 2859 |
1902 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Harold Warp's Pioneer Village, Minden, Nebraska, USA |
| 2888 (5) |
1902 |
2nd size Silsby |
Museum of the Albemarle, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA |
| 2892 |
1903 |
X1 size Ahrens |
Aberdeen Museum of History, Aberdeen, Washington, USA |
| 2894 |
1903 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Columbia Fire Museum, Columbia, South Carolina, USA |
| 2900 |
1903 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
USA |
| 2910 |
1902 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Idaho State Historical Society Transportation Museum, Boise, Idaho, USA |
| 2911 |
1902 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Mansfield Fire Museum, Mansfield, Ohio, USA |
| 2917 |
1903 |
5th size Silsby |
Nassau County Firefighters Museum, Long Island, New York, USA |
| 2928 |
1903 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Los Angeles County Fire Museum, Bellflower, California, USA |
| 2937 |
1903 |
5th size Cosmopolitan |
County Building, Harrisville, Michigan, USA |
| 2946 |
1903 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Evansville Museum Transportation Center, Evansville, Indiana, USA |
| 2947 |
1903 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Washington Engine Co. No.2, Riverhead, New York, USA |
| 2952 |
1903 |
4th size Metropolitan |
S.M. Vauclain Fire Co., Crum Lynne, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 2959 |
1904 |
5th size Cosmopolitan |
American-LaFrance Museum, North Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
| 2969 |
1904 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Hall of Flame, Phoenix, Arizona, USA |
| 2991 |
1904 |
1st size Metropolitan |
San Diego Firehouse Museum, San Diego, California, USA |
| 2997 |
1904 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Upper Valley Joint Vocational School, Piqua, Ohio, USA |
| 2998 |
1904 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Topeka Fire Department, Topeka, Kansas, USA |
| 3006 |
1904 |
X1 size Metropolitan |
Eureka Fire Dept, Eureka, California, USA |
| 3019 |
1905 |
2nd size? Metropolitan |
Phoenix Fire Museum, Mobile, Alabama, USA |
| 3020 |
1905 |
2nd size? Metropolitan |
Phoenix Fire Museum, Mobile, Alabama, USA |
| 3022 |
1904 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Santa Rosa Fire Dept, Santa Rosa, California, USA |
| 3030 (6) |
1904 |
3rd size Silsby |
Mount Holly Fire Dept, Mount Holly, New Jersey, USA |
| 3033 |
1904 |
5th size Silsby |
Nicholson Fire Co., Nicholson, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 3041 |
1905 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Winona County History Center, Winona, Minnesota, USA |
| 3044 |
1905 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
St Paul Fire Dept, St Paul, Minnesota, USA |
| 3057 |
1906 |
5th size Cosmopolitan |
Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, USA? |
| 3059 |
1906 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Utica National Insurance, Utica, New York, USA |
| 3061 |
1906 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Raleigh Fire Dept, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA |
| 3076 |
1905 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Capitol Fire Museum, Washington, D.C., USA |
| 3085 |
1905 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
San Jose Fire Museum, San Jose, California, USA |
| 3093 |
1905 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Wyandotte County Historical Museum, Bonner Springs, Kansas, USA |
| 3098 |
1905 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Fort Walla Walla Museum, Walla Walla, Washington, USA |
| 3100 |
1905 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Fire Museum, Altamont Fair, Altamont, New York, USA |
| 3125 (7) |
1906 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
New Jersey Fire Museum, Allaire State Park, New Jersey, USA |
| 3136 |
1906 |
4th size Metropolitan |
Smithsonian Insitution, Washington, D.C., USA |
| 3158 (8) |
1906 |
4th size Metropolitan |
Fire Dept, Burbank, California, USA |
| 3167 |
1906 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
USA |
| 3171 (9) |
1906 |
X1 size Metropolitan |
Harold Warp's Pioneer Village, Minden, Nebraska, USA |
| 3184 |
1907 |
X1 size Metropolitan |
Los Angeles County Fire Museum, Bellflower, California, USA |
| 3185 (10) |
1907 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Last Resort Fire Dept Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA |
| 3191 |
1907 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Los Angeles County Fire Museum, Bellflower, California, USA |
| 3192 |
1907 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Forest Grove Fire Dept, Forest Grove, Oregon, USA |
| 3203 |
1907 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Fireman's Hall Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 3208 |
1907 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Museum Village, Monroe, New York, USA |
| 3209 |
1907 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Fire Dept, Boise, Idaho, USA |
| 3226 |
1908 |
4th size Metropolitan |
Museo de la Ciudad, Havana, Cuba |
| 3240 |
1908 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Galveston Railroad Museum, Galveston, Texas, USA |
| 3242 |
1908 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Knoxville Fire Dept, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA |
| 3246 |
1908 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Fire Museum, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA |
| 3258 |
1908 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Transportation Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| 3273 |
1909 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Danville Fire Dept, Danville, Virginia, USA |
| 3274 |
1909 |
5th size Cosmopolitan |
Rockland County Fire Training Centre, Pomona, New York, USA |
| 3296 |
1909 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Schuylkill Historical Fire Society, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 3304 |
1910 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Gilmore Car Museum, Hickory Corners, Michigan, USA |
| 3314 |
1910 |
5th size Cosmopolitan |
FASNY Museum of Firefighting, New York, USA |
| 3317 |
1910 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
National Guard Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA |
| 3327 |
1911 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Portland Fire & Rescue, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| 3329 |
1911 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Atlanta Historical Museum, Georgia, USA |
| 3330 |
1911 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Montgomery, Alabama, USA |
| 3332 |
1911 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Rescue Fire Company, Cambridge, Maryland, USA |
| 3342 |
1911 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Chico Fire Dept, Chico, California, USA |
| 3344 |
1911 |
5th size Cosmopolitan |
Pioneer Museum, Fredericksburg, Texas, USA |
| 3352 |
1911 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Orlando Fire Museum, Orlando, Florida, USA |
| 3355 |
1911 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, USA |
| 3356 |
1911 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Liberty Hall Museum Firehouse, Union, New Jersey, USA |
| 3368 |
1912 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
Durham, North Carolina, USA |
| 3374 |
1912 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
American-LaFrance Museum, North Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
| 3377 |
1911 |
4th size Metropolitan |
Rockville Veteran Firemen's Association, Vernon Rockville, Connecticut, USA |
| 3384 (11) |
1913 |
2nd size Metropolitan |
New York City Fire Museum, New York, USA |
| 3408 |
1913 |
3rd size Metropolitan |
Indianapolis Fire Dept Museum, Indiana, USA |
| 3413 (12) |
1914 |
1st size Metropolitan |
Manila, Philippines |
| 3437 |
1915 |
2nd size? Metropolitan |
New Jersey Firemen's Home Museum, Boonton, New Jersey, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
Metropolitan |
Museo del Bombero, Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| n/a |
1907 |
Metropolitan |
Red's Old 395 Grill, Carson City, Nevada, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Louisville, Ohio, USA |
| (1) Rebuild of Clapp & Jones of 1874. |
| (2) Fitted with 1913 Christie tractor. |
| (3) Fitted with 1914 Knox-Martin three-wheeled tractor. |
| (4) Fitted with American-LaFrance tractor No.1339. |
| (5) Rebuild of Silsby No.413 of 1873, 3rd size. |
| (6) Rebuild of Silsby No.634 of 1880, 4th size. |
| (7) Fitted with American-LaFrance tractor. |
| (8) Fitted with Christie tractor. |
| (9) Fitted with American-LaFrance tractor. |
| (10) Fitted with 1921 Seagrave tractor. |
| (11) Fitted with Christie tractor. |
| (12) Fitted with American-LaFrance tractor. |
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Amoskeag (USA)
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The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire built its first steam fire engine in 1859 and sold it for $3000 to the city of Manchester, where it remained in service for 17 years. This engine had a cylindrical frame, which also served as a water tank, under which was mounted a rotary pump. Two years later they introduced their "Harp" style of engine, which took its name from the elegant hexagonal-section solid brass frame that was shaped like a harp. More conventional designs followed from 1866 onwards, and by 1872 they were also building self-propelled engines - possibly the most famous of these saw service with the fire Dept of Hartford, Connecticut and was nicknamed "Jumbo" due to its impressive size. Amoskeag fire engines soon developed an enviable reputation for high quality construction and were shipped as far afield as Chile and Siberia. In 1877 the company was sold to the Manchester Locomotive Works, but the production of steam fire engines continued. By the time the last Amoskeag engine left the production line in 1913, a total of 853 units had been built.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 75 |
1863 |
2nd size |
North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA? |
| 78 |
1863 |
2nd size |
Pacific Heritage Association, Oregon, USA |
| 182 |
1866 |
2nd size |
Owego Fire Dept, Owego, New York, USA |
| 199 |
1866 |
3rd size |
Minersville Fire Dept, Minersville, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 283 |
1868 |
1st size |
Drake Well Museum, Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 298 |
1868 |
1st size |
Morris, Illinois, USA |
| 313 |
1869 |
1st size |
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 325 |
1869 |
3rd size |
Segunda Compañia del Cuerpo de Bomberos de Copiapó, Chile |
| 329 |
1870 |
1st size |
Charleston Fire Dept Central Station, Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
| 330 |
1870 |
1st size |
New Hampshire, USA |
| 334 |
1870 |
3rd size |
Greenwood City Fire Dept, Greenwood, South Carolina, USA |
| 340 |
1870 |
2nd size |
Portsmouth Fire Dept, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA |
| 353 |
1870 |
2nd size |
Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| 364 |
1871 |
2nd size |
Charles River Museum of Industry, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA |
| 369 |
1871 |
3rd size |
Portland Fire Museum, Portland, Maine, USA |
| 377 |
1872 |
3rd size |
Houlton Fire Dept, Houlton, Maine, USA |
| 398 |
1872 |
2nd size |
Woodstock Fire Dept, Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada |
| 409 |
1872 |
2nd size |
Sloan Museum, Flint, Michigan, USA |
| 425 |
1873 |
3rd size |
Somerville Fire Museum, Somerville, New Jersey, USA |
| 430 |
1873 |
2nd size |
Lenox Antique Fire Apparatus Association, Lenox, Massachusetts, USA |
| 458 |
1873 |
2nd size |
Exeter Fire Museum, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA |
| 459 |
1873 |
2nd size |
n/a |
| 483 |
1877 |
1st size |
USA |
| 485 |
1874 |
1st size |
Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, New York, USA |
| 529 |
1879 |
3rd size |
Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon, USA |
| 537 |
1878 |
4th size |
Historic Belmont Firehouse, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| 552 |
1885 |
4th size |
Fire Museum of Maryland, Lutherville, Maryland, USA |
| 558 |
1881 |
3rd size |
Seal Cove Auto Museum, Maine, USA |
| 560 |
1882 |
X1 size |
Central Ohio Fire Museum, Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| 571 |
1882 |
3rd size |
Fairfield Fire Dept, Fairfield, Maine, USA |
| 578 (1) |
1882 |
X1 size |
Boston Fire Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| 580 |
1883 |
2nd size |
Rockford, Illinois, USA |
| 583 |
1884 |
3rd size |
New Jersey Firemen's Home Museum, Boonton, New Jersey, USA |
| 592 |
1884 |
2nd size |
New Bedford Fire Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA |
| 596 |
1884 |
3rd size |
Carriage and Western Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California, USA |
| 613 |
1885 |
2nd size |
Reynolds-Alberta Museum, Alberta, Canada, USA |
| 626 |
1887 |
2nd size |
Los Angeles Fire Dept Museum, California, USA |
| 631 |
1887 |
2nd size |
Ohio, USA |
| 639 |
1889 |
3rd size |
Massachusetts, USA? |
| 644 (2) |
1889 |
DX1 size |
USA |
| 651 |
1890 |
3rd size |
San Jose Fire Museum, San Jose, California, USA |
| 662 |
1890 |
2nd size |
New Bedford Fire Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA |
| 666 |
1890 |
2nd size |
Snohomish Fire & Rescue, Snohomish, Washington, USA |
| 674 |
1891 |
2nd size |
Ohio, USA |
| 694 |
1893 |
3rd size |
Camden, Maine, USA |
| 701 |
1893 |
X1 size |
Fort Wayne Firefighters Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA |
| 725 (3) |
1896 |
2nd size |
Boston Fire Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| 764 (4) |
1901 |
DX1 size |
Wilson Volunteer Fire Co., Windsor, Connecticut, USA |
| 767 |
1901 |
4th size |
Swanzey Historical Museum, West Swanzey, New Hampshire, USA |
| 771 |
1902 |
3rd size |
Seaside No.1 Firehouse, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, USA |
| 779 (5) |
1905 |
X1 size |
Owls Head Transportation Museum, Owls Head, Maine, USA |
| 783 |
1905 |
2nd size |
Berlin Fire Dept, Berlin, New Hampshire, USA |
| 796 |
1906 |
3rd size |
Pemigewasset Fire Station, Lincoln, New Hampshire, USA |
| 798 |
1906 |
1st size |
Richmond, Virginia, USA |
| 809 |
1906 |
1st size |
Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, USA? |
| 810 (6) |
1908 |
X1 size |
Narragansett Fire Dept, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA |
| 819 |
1907 |
1st size |
Belfast Fire Association Museum, Belfast, Maine, USA |
| 822 |
1907 |
n/a |
Long Beach Fire Dept Museum, Long Beach, California, USA |
| 831 |
1907 |
n/a |
Wakefield Fire Dept, Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA |
| 836 (7) |
1908 |
1st size |
Cole Land Transportation Museum, Maine, USA |
| 846 |
1909 |
1st size |
Pemigewasset Fire Station, Lincoln, New Hampshire, USA |
| n/a |
1861 |
n/a |
Oklahoma State Firefighters Museum, Oklahoma, USA |
| n/a (8) |
1863 |
2nd size |
Firefighters Museum, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Denver Firefighters Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Monitor Engine Co. Firehouse Museum, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Relief Fire Company, Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
House on the Rock, Spring Green, Wisconsin, USA |
| (1) Fitted with Christie tractor. |
| (2) Fitted with 1915 American & British (A&B) petrol-electric tractor; originally self-propelled. |
| (3) Fitted with Christie tractor. |
| (4) Self-propelled. |
| (5) Fitted with 1918 American-LaFrance tractor. |
| (6) Semi-mounted on Federal truck. |
| (7) Fitted with 1917 Christie tractor. |
| (8) Either No.65 or No.70, both of which were new to St John, New Brunswick. |
|
Beduwe (Belgium/Germany)
|
|
The Beduwe firm was founded at Aachen, Germany 1840 by Peter Joseph Béduwé, who came from a family of coppersmiths and had served his apprenticeship in this trade with the Requile company near Liège in Belgium. Established as a brass foundry, the Beduwe works soon expanded to include the manufacture of church bells and fire extinguishers. In the 1860s Beduwe took over the Requile concern in Belgium and subsequently divided the Aachen and Liège branches between his two sons, while retaining overall control. At a trade exhibition in Middelburg, Netherlands the Liège branch run by Caesar Joseph Beduwe won first prize and a gold medal for its hand fire pumps. The Aachen branch, under Johann Andreas Hubert Beduwe, received a contract to supply the Aachen and Munich Fire Insurance Company with around 5000 fire pumps, to be provided free of charge to cities and communities in the Rhineland. The company also began to focus on steam fire engines, and one of these was awarded an honorary diploma at a Swiss fire equipment exhibition in 1890. Both companies continued to expand and further develop their product lines until the Second World War, after which the restructuring of industry brought an end to the activities of the Aachen branch; the Liège branch survived a little longer, but finally closed its doors in 1952.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 181 |
1902 |
n/a |
Feuerwehr Duisberg, Germany |
| 245 |
1910 |
n/a |
Stoomcentrum, Maldegem, Belgium |
| n/a |
1880 |
n/a |
Brandweermuseum Wouwse Plantage, Netherlands |
|
Bikkers (Netherlands)
|
|
Alexander Bikkers founded a company at Rotterdam in 1873 to manufacture fire pumps. His sons also became involved with the business, and in 1872 the company A. Bikkers & Zoon was granted a royal charter. In 1887 Bikkers cooperated with the English firm of Merryweather to build horse-drawn steam fire engines for the Dutch market, and in 1904 the company received an order from the municipality of Nijmegen for a steam-powered machine for emptying cesspits. It was a small step to adapt this to a self-propelled steam fire engine, and six of these were built in 1906 for use in Rotterdam and The Hague. By 1915 Bikkers had built a total of 64 horse-drawn steam fire engines, but after the war they shifted their focus to motor-powered engines, which formed the core of the business until it ceased trading in 1983.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 10 |
1897 |
n/a |
Nationaal Brandweermuseum, Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands |
| 36 |
1905 |
n/a |
Brandweermuseum, Borculo, Netherlands |
| 46 |
1908 |
n/a |
Stichting Historisch Brandweermaterieel, The Hague, Netherlands |
| 57 |
1910 |
n/a |
Stichting Stoomspuit Gorkum, Gorinchem, Netherlands |
| n/a |
1901 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Wormerveer, Netherlands |
| n/a (1) |
1907 |
n/a |
Louwman Museum/Nationaal Automobiel Museum, The Hague, Netherlands |
| n/a |
1907 |
Stationary Pump |
Stichting Historisch Brandweermaterieel, The Hague, Netherlands |
| n/a |
1913 |
n/a |
Nationaal Brandweermuseum, Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands |
| (1) This is actually a steam-powered machine built for emptying cesspits in Amsterdam, but is included here for completeness as it formed the basis of Bikkers' subsequent self-propelled steam fire engine. |
|
Braun (Germany)
|
|
In 1845 Justus Christian Braun set up a factory in Nürnberg, where he manufactured components for gas pipes. By 1868 he had built a hand-powered portable fire engine that was displayed at an exhibition in Gunzenhausen, and was also offering pumps and hydraulic presses. He soon outgrew his old premises and moved to a new site, where he rechristened the company the "Nürnberger Feuerlöschgeräte- und Maschinenfabrik AG vormals Justus Christian Braun". When Braun died in 1877, his three sons took over the running of the business, and in 1890 they introduced their first steam fire engine; around 50 of these were built before the company shifted its focus to motor-powered fire engines. In 1911 the company developed links with the Premier Cycle Co. of London, and it was renamed "Justus Christian Braun-Premier-Werke", but two years later this new concern went into liquidation. The abandoned site was leased by local wagon-builder Karl Schmidt, who restarted production of fire-fighting equipment under the name "Feuerlöschgeräte & Fahrzeugfabrik Karl Schmidt". This concern subsequently merged with Fahrzeugfabrik Ansbach AG to form "Fahrzeugfabriken Ansbach Und Nürnberg" (FAUN), which would go to become a legendary manufacturer of specialist trucks.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 16 |
1902 |
n/a |
Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany |
| n/a |
1899 |
n/a |
Feuerwehr Bamberg, Germany |
| n/a |
1905 |
n/a |
Feuerwehr Hof, Germany |
|
Budapest Pump and Machine Works (Hungary)
|
|
Ferenc (Franz) Walser was born in the Hungarian city of Pest (now part of Budapest) in 1827, and completed an apprenticeship with master bell-founder András Schaudt. In 1858 he established his own bell foundry and fire pump factory, which by 1870 was employing 200 people. Although production initially focused on hand engines, in 1876 Walser built Hungary's first steam fire engine, which was named "Budapest" and entered service the following year. By 1897 the company had becomeknown as Budapesti Szivattyú- és Gépgyár Rt. [Budapest Pump and Machine Works Ltd] and one of its steam fire engines, named "Hungária", took part in an international competition in Paris in 1900. Walser passed away the following year, but the business continued until 1913, when it merged with Teudloff-Dittrich.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
1910 |
n/a |
Tűzoltó Múzeum, Eger, Hungary |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Tűzoltó Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary |
|
Busch (Germany)
|
|
The W.C.F. Busch firm was formed in 1846 and was an established manufacturer of electric trams at Hamburg-Eimsbüttel when it took over Maschinenfabrik Melzer & Co KG of Bautzen in Saxony in 1896. The parent company's name was changed to "Wagenbauanstalt und Waggonfabrik für elektrische Bahnen vormals W.C.F. Busch" and by 1900 they company had three separate premises at Bautzen: one for building rail wagons; another for steam fire engines and other road vehicles; and a foundry. In 1903 the name was changed again to "Waggon- und Maschinenfabrik AG vorm. Busch", and several years later a small number of self-propelled steam fire engines were built. By the First World War the company had moved its operations base to Bautzen and had become the largest producer of rail wagons in Saxony, and one of the largest in Germany. A merger with Linke-Hofmann AG Breslau and Sächsischen Waggonfabrik AG Werdau in 1928 created "Linke-Hofmann-Busch-Werke AG", and the company built rolling stock under this name until 2009, when it was renamed "Alstom Transport Germany GmbH".
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 200 |
1888 |
n/a |
Nds. Akademie für Brand- und Katastrophenschutz, Celle, Germany |
| 429 |
1899 |
n/a |
Torgauer Feuerwehrmuseum, Torgau, Germany |
| 464 |
1901 |
n/a |
Deutsches Feuerwehr-Museum, Fulda, Germany |
| 530 |
1904 |
n/a |
Feuerwehrmuseum Berlin, Germany |
| 550 |
1905 |
self-propelled |
Schweizerisches Feuerwehrmuseum, Basel, Switzerland |
| 591 |
1906 |
n/a |
Primera Compañía de Bomberos 'Germania' de La Unión, Chile |
| 617 |
1908 |
n/a |
Deutsches Feuerwehr-Museum, Fulda, Germany |
| 660 |
1914 |
n/a |
AG Feuerwehrhistorik Riesa, Zeithain, Germany |
| n/a |
1889 |
n/a |
Primera Compañía de Bomberos 'Esmeralda' de Los Lagos, Chile |
| n/a |
1905 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Rakvere, Estonia |
| n/a |
1908 |
n/a |
Muzeum Pożarnictwa, Warsaw, Poland |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Museo del Heroico Cuerpo de Bomberos, Toluca, Mexico |
|
Button (USA)
|
|
Lysander Button was born at New Haven, Connecticut in 1810, although his family moved to Albany, New York in 1825. Button's first job was as a machinist in the factory owned by John Rogers at nearby Waterford. Rogers built hand-powered fire engines and Button would gain valuable experience in this area, rising through the ranks to become foreman, partner and eventually owner of the factory in 1841, which was renamed "L. Button & Co." Button introduced his own design of hand-powered engine in 1834, and these soon became very popular, developing a reputation as the best hand-engine available at the time. The company built its first steam fire engine in 1862, which was sold to the city of Battle Creek, Michigan, and fourteen years later a Button steamer won the Centennial Award at the Philadelphia International Exhibition. Button's early engines were of the straight-frame design, with a single pump and steam cylinder arranged horizontally on the frame; later engines, however, were of the crane-neck design and were offered in six sizes. Many innovations in fire engine design were introduced by Button together with Robert Blake, who was a partner in the company for a number of years, when it became known as "Button & Blake"; after Button's son Theodore joined the firm the name was changed again to "Button & Son". Lysander Button retired from engine-building in 1882, selling the factory and many of his patent rights to Holroyd & Co., also of Waterford, NY. In 1891 the Button Fire Engine Co. joined several other firms in forming the American Fire Engine Company (see above), which continued to produce steam fire engines to Button's design as part of its product range.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 46 |
1868 |
n/a |
Augusta Museum of History, Augusta, Georgia, USA |
| 79 |
1872 |
n/a |
Orange County Firefighters Museum, Montgomery, New York, USA |
| 96 |
1876 |
4th size |
S.W. Johnson S.F.E. Co. No. 1, Garnerville, New York, USA |
| 115 |
1880 |
5th size |
Aiken County Historical Museum, Aiken, South Carolina, USA |
| 138 |
1883 |
3rd size |
Ogunquit Fire Company Museum, Ogunquit, Maine, USA |
| 145 |
1885 |
6th size |
The Hershey Story Museum, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 147 |
1884 |
5th size |
Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, USA |
| 148 |
1884 |
2nd size |
USA |
| 155 |
1884 |
4th size |
New Bern Firemen's Museum, New Bern, North Carolina, USA |
| 156 |
1884 |
5th size |
Nebraska City Museum of Firefighting, Nebraska, USA |
| 169 (1) |
1885 |
4th size |
Independent Fire Company, Ranson, West Virginia, USA |
| 170 |
1885 |
3rd size |
Boothbay Railway Village, Boothbay, Maine, USA |
| 185 (2) |
1886 |
4th size |
Stillwater Fire Dept, Stillwater, New York, USA |
| 197 |
1887 |
n/a |
Surrey Hills, Mackinac Island, Michigan, USA |
| 199 |
1887 |
4th size |
Homer Fire Dept, Homer, Michigan, USA |
| 213 |
1889 |
5th size |
Union Firehouse, Belmar, New Jersey, USA |
| 251 (3) |
1891 |
n/a |
FASNY Museum of Firefighting, New York, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
3rd size |
Good Will Hose Co., Belmar, New Jersey, USA |
| (1) Rebuild of L. Button & Sons engine of 1872. |
| (2) Rebuild of L. Button & Sons engine of 1871. |
| (3) Rebuild of L. Button & Sons No.66 of 1871. |
|
Canadian Fire Engine Co. (Canada)
|
|
|
The Canadian Fire Engine Company built steam fire engines at London, Ontario in the early 1900s, but no further information has been found so far. The company's engines are almost identical to those built by Ronald, so there may be some connection?
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 105 |
1906 |
n/a |
Fort Erie LaFrance Association Museum, Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada |
| n/a |
1906 |
n/a |
Port Colborne Volunteer Fire Co., Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada |
|
Černý and Němec (Czech Republic)
|
|
|
Černý and Němec purchased a factory in Slatiňany that had been established in 1899 by Cilka and Trdlica to manufacture of sawmills and woodworking machinery. Sales of these products were poor, so the new owners of the company decided to switch to building hand-operated and steam fire engines. In 1907 the firm was bought out by renowned Czech steam fire engine manufacturer R.A. Smékal (see below), and the product line was diversified to include gymnastics equipment and even a few cars. After the death of Smékal in 1937 ownership passed to one Potůček, who introduced the manufacture of fire hoses and updated much of the machinery in the factory. Nationalisation saw the plant absorbed into the state-owned concern SIGMA Olomouc, but in more recent times it has reverted to private ownership under the name Strojírna Potůček Slatiňany (SPS).
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 83 |
1907 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Otrokovice-Kvítkovice, Czech Republic |
|
Clapp & Jones (USA)
|
|
Mirtillow R. Clapp worked for the Silsby Manufacturing Co., of Seneca Falls, New York (see below), receiving a patent in 1860 for a new design of boiler. In 1862 he started his own company to build steam fire engines - his partner in this venture was Edward D. Jones and the new firm was known as Clapp & Jones. As was the case with other manufacturers, the first Clapp & Jones steamers (such as the so-called "Village Engine") were of the straight-frame design, with both single and double pumps, and only later did they switch to a crane-neck pattern with vertical cylinders/pumps. The company built more than 600 steam fire engines over a period of thirty years as an independent entity, but in 1891 they joined several other firms to form the American Fire Engine Company (see above); each company kept its individual identity, however, and engines of the Clapp & Jones design continued to be built after the merger.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 83 |
1872 |
n/a |
FASNY Museum of Firefighting, New York, USA |
| 91 |
n/a |
n/a |
FASNY Museum of Firefighting, New York, USA |
| 112 |
1873 |
n/a |
Newton Fire Museum, Newton, New Jersey, USA |
| 131 |
1875 |
4th size |
Vintage Fire Museum, New Albany, Indiana, USA |
| 140 |
1875 |
5th size |
New York State Museum, Albany, New York, USA |
| 285 |
n/a |
n/a |
Antique Toy and Firehouse Museum, Bay City, Michigan, USA |
| 313 |
1879 |
n/a |
Comstock Firemen's Museum, Virginia City, Nevada, USA |
| 454 |
1888 |
n/a |
Pocomoke City Volunteer Fire Company, Pokomoke City, Maryland, USA |
| 466 |
1885 |
4th size |
Dover Fire Dept Antique Club, Dover, New Jersey, USA |
| 503 |
n/a |
n/a |
Fire Museum of Maryland, Lutherville, Maryland, USA |
| 572 |
n/a |
n/a |
Stroudsburg Fire Dept, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 577 |
1886 |
n/a |
Crisfield Fire Dept, Crisfield, Maryland, USA |
| n/a |
1871 |
n/a |
Besser Museum of Northeast Michigan, Alpena, Michigan, USA |
| n/a |
1873 |
n/a |
Logansport Fire Dept, Logansport, Indiana, USA |
| n/a (1) |
1874 |
n/a |
Woodland Fire Museum, Woodland, California, USA |
| n/a |
1878 |
n/a |
Fire Museum of Maryland, Lutherville, Maryland, USA (from Smithsonian) |
| n/a |
1882 |
n/a |
Lee Fire Dept, Lee, Massachusetts, USA |
| n/a |
1887 |
n/a |
Fire Station No.1, Columbus, Mississippi, USA |
| n/a |
1887 |
n/a |
Junction City Fire Dept, Junction City, Oregon, USA |
| n/a |
1888 |
n/a |
Frenchtown Volunteer Fire Dept, New Jersey, USA |
| n/a |
1889 |
n/a |
Fire Dept, Marathon, New York, USA |
| n/a (2) |
n/a |
n/a |
Old State House, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA |
| (1) Rebuilt by American Fire Engine Co. as No.2268 of 1894, 3rd size. |
| (2) Fitted with 1912 American & British electric tractor. |
|
Cole Bros. (USA)
|
|
The Cole Brothers firm was established at Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1867. Their first engine was sold to the city of Utica, New York, and saw many years of service. They built both single and double-cylinder engines of the vertical type in three different sizes. Cole Bros. engines were notable for the cylinders being placed in line rather than transversely, and they were probably the only company to use this configuration. Around sixty engines were built before production ended in the 1880s.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
1865 |
n/a |
Seneca County Museum, Tiffin, Ohio, USA |
| n/a |
1869 |
n/a |
American Heritage 'Big Red' Fire Museum, Louisville, Mississippi, USA |
| n/a |
1872 |
n/a |
Foxborough Fire Dept, Foxborough, Massachusetts, USA |
| n/a |
1876 |
n/a |
Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Manitowoc Fire Dept, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA |
|
Czermack (Czech Republic)
|
|
Reginald Czermack was born in Prague and moved as a child to Teplice (Teplitz) in the north of Bohemia, which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1868 he began building hand-powered fire engines, and 1879 established a factory for this purpose which was one of the largest in the whole of Austria-Hungary. Czermack subsequently founded the Österreichischer Bundesfeuerwehrverband (Austrian Federal Fire-Brigade Federation), and was also among the initiators of CTIF, the International Technical Committee for the Prevention and Extinction of Fire. Steam fire engines were first produced at the Czermack works in the early 1900s, with the two-cylinder "Oregon" engine being a popular design. After the First World War and the creation of the Czechoslovak state, Czermack retired to his villa in Teplice, disillusioned at the loss of the historic links between Austrian and Czech firefighters; he died there in 1929.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 334 |
1899 |
n/a |
Tűzoltó Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary |
| 1096 |
1911 |
n/a |
Tűzoltó Múzeum, Vörs, Hungary |
| 1113 |
1911 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Horn, Austria |
| 1119 |
1912 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Tachov, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Muzeum Historické Hasičské Techniky, Velké Svatoňovice, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
1903 |
n/a |
Expozice Požární Ochrany HZS ČR, Zbiroh, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
1903 |
n/a |
Musée du Service d’Incendie et de Secours, Geneva, Switzerland |
| n/a |
1907 |
n/a |
Heimathaus, Braunau am Inn, Austria |
| n/a |
1909 |
n/a |
Stadtmuseum, Pinkafeld, Austria |
| n/a |
1910 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Payerbach, Austria |
| n/a |
1911 |
n/a |
Feuerwehrmuseum Allentsteig, Allentsteig, Austria |
|
Durenne et Krebs (France)
|
|
Jean-François Durenne had a factory at Courbevoie near Paris, where he built boilers, stationary steam engines and many other products, some of which were exhibited at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1888 Durenne collaborated with Arthur Constantin Krebs, a prolific inventor and moderniser of the Paris Fire Brigade, to design and build a steam fire engine for use on the streets of the capital. This was a double-pump design with the cylinders and pumps oriented vertically ahead of the boiler; a smaller model was also introduced a few years later. Durenne et Krebs received a patent for their boiler design in 1892, and one of these boilers was later used as the basis for a self-propelled fire engine initiated by Lt.-Col. Vuilquin of the Paris Fire Brigade and built by the firm of Weyher et Richemond in 1904.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
1895 |
n/a |
Le Mans, France |
| n/a |
1906 |
n/a |
Paris, France? |
|
Fire Appliances Manufacturing Co. (England)
|
|
The Fire Appliances Manufacturing Co. was established at Northampton in 1888 as a branch of the Sphincter Grip Hose Company. They built a limited number of high-quality steam fire engines carrying the "Vulcan" name for both the home and export markets. For a few years their engines were serious competitors to those of the established firms of Merryweather & Sons and Shand, Mason & Co., and were even placed ahead of their rivals' products in several steam fire engine contests. However, the competition eventually got the better of them and in 1893 the company was wound up.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Quinta Compañía de Bomberos, Callao, Peru |
|
Flader (Germany)
|
|
|
Friedrich August Flader established a brass foundry at Jöhstadt in Saxony in 1860 under the name F.A. Flader & Comp., and early products included hand- and bucket-pumps. Flader's hand-operated pumps became so successful that in 1872 he founded a new company, Feuerspritzenfabrik E.C. Flader, to manufacture these (E.C. were the initials of his second wife, Emilie Clementine). Flader also began to build steam fire engines from 1891, and by 1911 a company catalogue was listing twelve different two- and three-cylinder models, with names such as "Kiel", "Altona", "Rheinpreußen", "Posen", "Eckernförde", "Wilhelma" and "Oregon". In 1905 they constructed a self-propelled three-cylinder steam fire engine for the Kiel Fire Dept, but this was unfortunately not very successful and was withdrawn from use after just two years' service. Flader steam engines were also mounted on automobile chassis produced by Bussing, Daimler-Benz, Opel and others. The company later built petrol-powered fire pumps in both two- and four-wheeled versions, followed by portable pumps mounted on skids. It was these latter units that would form the basis of the company's success in subsequent decades, and the company still produces portable and trailer-mounted fire pumps today with the "Johstadt" trademark under the name PF Pumpen und Feuerlöschtechnik GmbH.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 248 |
1909 |
n/a |
Eesti Tuletõrjemuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia |
| 249 |
1909 |
n/a |
Feuerwache Übigau, Dresden-Übigau, Germany |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Segunda Compañía de Bomberos de Osorno, Chile |
| n/a |
1900 |
n/a |
Hasičské Muzeum, Nový Oldřichov, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
two-wheeled |
Barcelona, Spain |
|
Ichihara (Japan)
|
|
The Ichihara Sokutō Shokikai Seisakusho (Ichihara Factory for Pumps and Various Appliances) was located in the Kakigara-chō area of Tokyo. Early products included a two-wheeled portable hand-powered pump that could be pulled to the scence of a fire by several men. The company's built its first horse-drawn steam fire engine in 1899 - this was almost identical to an English Shand Mason engine, a number of which were imported into Japan from the late 19th century onwards. By the 1930s they were building turbine fire pumps that were often mounted on an American automobile chassis.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 1 |
1899 |
n/a |
Tokyo Fire Museum, Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Disaster Education Center, Aomori Prefecture, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Goshogawara Fire Brigade, Aomori Prefecture, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
North Fire Station, Sagiyama, Gifu City, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Matsumoto City Museum, Matsumoto, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Nagoya Fire Academy, Nagoya, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Folk Museum, Ono, Fukui Prefecture, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Michinoku Folklore Village, Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Osho City Fire Museum, Iwate Prefecture, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Surisawa, Daito-cho, Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Yamasa Soy Sauce Factory, Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Miyagi Fire Fighting Academy, Sendai, Japan |
|
Jauck (Germany)
|
|
Georg Andreas Jauck established a bronze foundry at Leipzig in 1796, where he cast bells for many churches in eastern Germany. From the mid 19th century he also began to build fire-fighting equipment for fire Depts in both Germany and Austria. At first only hand-powered fire pumps were built, but from 1876 steam fire engines of a horizontal, single cylinder/pump design were also offered. The firm of G.A. Jauck ceased to exist in 1903.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 167 |
1894 |
n/a |
Centralne Muzeum Pożarnictwa, Mysłowice, Poland |
|
Jeffers (USA)
|
|
William Jeffers was born in 1809 in the town of Milton, Massachusetts and moved to Pawtucket, Rhode Island as a young man, where he was apprenticed as a cabinet maker. He later moved into repairing mill machinery, and in 1848 he was called upon to repair the hand fire engine of the Rhode Island Engine Company. This experience led him into the business of building hand fire engines, and his reputation for quality workmanship spread rapidly, with orders flooding in from across the country. In 1861 he also began to build steam fire engines: two sizes of single-pump engines were offered, as well as one size of double-pump engine, and all were of the vertical pattern. The first engine went to Pawtucket, Rhode Island and Jeffers continued building fire engines until 1874, with a total of 63 being produced. In December 1875 he sold the steam fire engine business to a concern in Bridgeport, Connecticut, who built a handful of engines of Jeffers' design. William Jeffers continued to build hand fire engines until his death in March 1879.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 193 |
1880 |
n/a |
Middlebury Fire Dept, Middlebury, Vermont, USA |
| n/a |
1864 |
n/a |
Paterson Museum, Paterson, New Jersey, USA |
| n/a |
1872 |
n/a |
Woonsocket Fire Dept, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA |
|
Johnson (USA)
|
|
James B. Johnson first set up business at the Metropolitan Works, South Boston, Massachusetts in 1859. Soon afterwards he transferred his operations to the McKay & Gallagher factory in East Boston, where he built his first steam fire engine named "Antelope", a horizontal design with single steam cylinder and pump. This engine was demonstrated in several cities and loaned to various fire Depts, but was never actually sold. Johnson's second engine was sold to the city of Salem, Massachusetts and was named after their chief engineer, William Chase. In the autumn of 1859, after building these two engines, Johnson transferred his business again to the Portland Co. Works at Portland, Maine, where he built his next engine known as "Greyhound". Johnson built a total of around thirty steam fire engines before he ceased operations in 1869 - all of these were of a horizontal design, except for one, which was a double-cylinder vertical engine.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
1864 |
2nd size |
Fire Museum, Manchester, Connecticut, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Firehall No.1, Santiago, Chile |
|
Kernreuter (Austria)
|
|
Franz Kernreuter established a factory at Hernals in north-west Vienna in 1886. Early products included machine tools and hand-operated fire pumps, but within a few years the company was also offering steam fire engines of both a single- and double-cylinder vertical design. These seem to have been phased out shortly before the First World War when the firm began to build petrol-powered pumps, which were offered at least until the late 1920s.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 5 |
1889 |
n/a |
Traktorenmuseum fam. Andrä, Windpassing, Austria |
| 30 |
1900 |
n/a |
Feuerwehrmuseum Perchtoldsdorf, Austria |
| 57 |
1904 |
n/a |
Czech Republic |
| 88 |
1907 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Hradec nad Moravicí, Czech Republic |
| 134 |
1911 |
n/a |
Technisches Museum, Vienna, Austria |
| 137 |
1911 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Vienna, Austria |
| n/a |
1889 |
n/a |
Tehnicki Muzej, Zagreb, Croatia |
| n/a |
1902 |
n/a |
Feuerwehr Vöcklabruck, Austria |
| n/a |
1903 |
n/a |
Feuerwehr Neulengbach, Austria |
| n/a |
1909 |
n/a |
Ebenfurther Feuerwehrmuseum, Ebenfurth, Austria |
| n/a |
1910 |
n/a |
Steirisches Feuerwehrmuseum, Gross St Florian, Austria |
| n/a |
1910 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Schrems, Austria |
| n/a |
1913 |
n/a |
Landesfeuerwehrkommando NÖ, Tulln, Austria |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Burgenländisches Feuerwehrmuseum, Eisenstadt, Austria |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Oö. Feuerwehrmuseum/Historisches Feuerwehrzeughaus St. Florian, Austria |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Osijek, Croatia |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Starý Bohumín, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Slovenski Gasilski Muzej, Metlika, Slovenia |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Tehniški Muzej Slovenije, Soteska, Slovenia |
|
Knaust (Austria)
|
|
In 1822 the mechanic Heinrich Ludwig Fricke established a factory at Leopoldstadt near Vienna to build fire pumps and hydraulic machinery, and became the first person to use stainless metal fittings on fire-fighting equipment. When Fricke died, the company passed to his nephew, Wilhelm Knaust, who renamed it accordingly. Knaust built its first steam fire engine in 1867 - this was known as the "Donau" model, and was a two-cylinder vertical design. In 1874, collaboration with the Vienna Fire Dept (Wiener Berufsfeuerwehr) led to the production of an engine with two horizontal cylinders, followed four years later by a combination fire-pump/portable steam engine. In 1883 Knaust returned to the vertical configuration, introducing a three-cylinder design that would formed the basis for their subsequent Knaust engines due to its quiet running, ease of starting from any crank position and the ability to vary the speed from 30 to 200 rpm. In 1899 Wilhelm Knaust handed the company over to his son Gustav, and died two years later. The year 1903 saw the production of a chemical fire engine powered by electricity for the Vienna Fire Dept, the first of 40 such machines that were built for the city. The First World Saw an increased demand for the firm's products, but the subsequent depression took its toll and the company filed for bankruptcy in 1929. There was an attempt to resurrect the company under the auspices of Austro-Fiat, but that failed and Knaust was eventually wound up in 1938. Some of Knaust's plans and designs, as well as personnel, were acquired by the fire-engine builders Rosenbauer (see below).
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 17587 |
1885 |
n/a |
Förderverein Nürnberger Feuerwehr-Museum, Nürnberg, Germany |
| 26496 |
1904 |
n/a |
Feuerwehrmuseum, Klosterneuburg, Austria |
| 28233 |
n/a |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Veľké Uherce, Slovakia |
| 28470 |
1910 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Gainfarn, Austria |
| n/a |
1877 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Radiměř, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
1895 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Donawitz, Austria |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Oö. Feuerwehrmuseum/Historisches Feuerwehrzeughaus St. Florian, Austria |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Hauptfeuerwache Floridsdorf, Vienna, Austria |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Aspang Markt, Austria |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Hasičské Muzeum, Čechy pod Kosířem, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Muzeum Hasičské Techniky, Chrastava, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Zámek Kinských, Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Vimperk, Czech Republic |
|
Krauss (Germany)
|
|
Georg von Krauss was born in Augsburg, Bavaria in 1826. After attending the Royal Polytechnic School, he went to work briefly for the Maffei Locomotive Works in Munich, and then for the Royal Bavarian State Railways. He subsequently found employment as a master machinist with the Northeast Railway in Zurich, where he was involved with building his first four locomotives. In 1866 he established his own locomotive factory in Munich-Neuhausen, known as Krauss Locomotive Works (Locomotivfabrik Krauss & Comp.), followed by branches in the south of Munich in 1872 and Linz (Austria) in 1880. Although his main focus was building locomotives, Krauss also became involved in the expansion of railway lines in Germany and the conversion of the horse-drawn tramways to steam power in Munich and Vienna, as well as being one of the founders of the Institute of German Engineers (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure). From the 1880s he also manufactured a small number of steam fire engines. Krauss received numerous honors from the German state for his contributions to engineering. He died in 1906, just a year after supervising the relocation of his factory to Allach outside Munich. His name survives to this day in the title of the company Krauss-Maffei, which was formed in 1931 by a merger between Krauss's firm and his greatest rival Maffei, also based in Munich.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 791 |
1879 |
n/a |
Stadtmuseum, Burghausen, Germany |
|
LaFrance (USA)
|
|
Truckson LaFrance was descended from French Huguenot immigrants, who had settled in Pennsylvania. In the 1860s he found employment at the Elmira Union Iron Works in Elmira, New York, and obtained several patents for improvements in rotary steam engine design. This attracted the attention of the head of the company, John Vischer, who entered into a partnership with LaFrance to build steam fire engines. They soon gained the support of a group of local businessmen, who purchased the company in April 1873 and renamed it the "LaFrance Manufacturing Company". In 1878 they entered a steam fire engine in the Paris Exposition, but sadly this was a disaster - French boiler legislation meant the engine could not even be demonstrated, and this fiasco nearly bankrupted the company. Salvation came in the form of Thomas Hotchkiss, a wealthy local businessman, who financed the building of another fire engine named after his wife, Jeannie Jewell. This engine was entered into a contest at Chicago in September 1878, where it proved its superiority over the opposition. In 1880 the company was renamed the "LaFrance Steam Engine Company", and several years later they began to manufacture an ingenious design of ladder truck conceived by inventor Daniel Hayes. LaFrance was approached to join the fledgeling American Fire Engine Co. (see above) in 1891, but declined the offer; however, they later reconsidered and join forces with American and a number of other manufacturers of fire equipment to form the International Fire Engine Co., which was incorporated on 14th December 1899. When this venture collapsed a few years later due to financial difficulties, the American Fire Engine Co. and LaFrance teamed up in January 1904 to form the American-LaFrance Fire Engine Co., which moved its headquarters to Elmira, New York in 1906.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 4 |
1881 |
4th size |
Hawkinsville Fire Dept, Hawkinsville, Georgia, USA |
| 112 |
1886 |
3rd size |
Fire Station No.7, Salem, Oregon, USA |
| 117 |
1886 |
6th size |
Greensboro Historical Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA |
| 141 |
1888 |
6th size |
New Ulm Fire Department, New Ulm, Minnesota, USA |
| 156 |
1888 |
1st size |
Taber Museum, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 246 |
1893 |
3rd size |
B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| 270 |
1893 |
4th size |
San Francisco Fire Dept Pioneer Museum, San Francisco, California, USA |
| 289 |
1894 |
1st size |
FASNY Museum of Firefighting, New York, USA |
| 307 |
1894 |
3rd size |
Jamestown Fire Dept Memorial Museum, Jamestown, Rhode Island, USA |
| 309 |
1894 |
3rd size |
Port Jervis Fire Dept, Port Jervis, New York, USA |
| 343 |
1895 |
3rd size |
Hope Firehouse, Burlington, New Jersey, USA |
| 349 |
1896 |
3rd size |
Ithaca Fire Dept, Ithaca, New York, USA |
| 386 |
1897 |
4th size |
San Francisco Fire Dept Pioneer Museum, San Francisco, California, USA |
| 399 |
1898 |
4th size |
West Farmington, Ohio, USA |
| 431 |
1899 |
4th size |
Firefighters Historical Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 451 |
1904 |
3rd size |
Clearfield County Historical Society, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 476 |
1902 |
2nd size |
Jacksonville Fire Museum, Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
| 492 |
1903 |
3rd size |
Chambersburg Fire Museum, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 496 |
1904 |
3rd size |
Town Hall Museum, Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio, USA |
| 503 |
1904 |
1st size |
Detroit Historical Museum, Detroit, Michigan, USA |
| 510 (1) |
1905 |
1st size |
Fire Museum of Maryland, Lutherville, Maryland, USA (from Baltimore FD) |
| 531 |
1907 |
1st size |
Buffalo Fire Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA |
| n/a |
1892 |
n/a |
FDNY Fleet Services Division, New York, USA |
| n/a |
1901 |
n/a |
New York City Fire Museum, New York, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Museo del Bombero, Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Nevada City - Outdoor History Museum, Montana, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Fire and Rescue Historical Society, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA |
| (1) Fitted with 1916 Christie tractor. |
|
Lange & Gehrkens (Germany)
|
|
|
In 1854 Lange & Gehrkens opened a machine factory and boiler works in Ottensen, now a quarter of the city of Hamburg. In addition to equipment for mills and woodworking machinery they also built boilers and steam engines. At the instigation of the local fire brigade they began work on a steam fire engine in 1868, which was completed a year later and sold to the town of Altona for 6000 Marks. Named "Alte Liese", it weighed 3650 kg, could pump 1500 litres of water per minute, and remained in operation until 1911. This was the only steam fire engine ever built by the company and it still exists today.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 1 |
1869 |
n/a |
Feuerwehrmuseum Schleswig-Holstein, Norderstedt, Germany |
|
Gustav List (Russia)
|
|
|
Gustav Ivanovich List was born in Berlin in 1835 and studied factory production techniques in the United States. In 1856 he moved to Russia to work as a mechanic at a sugar factory in Voronezh region, in the south-west of the country. It was there that he built his first fire pump, which was used to fight fires in the sugar factory and the surrounding area by what is regarded as the first volunteer fire brigade in Russia. In 1863 List relocated to Moscow, where he opened a small factory to manufacture hand-operated fire pumps. These were awarded a gold medal by the Russian Technical Society the same year, and the company would go on to win many more honours at exhibitions across Europe. Unfortunately the works was subsequently destroyed by fire, so List opened a new factory on the Sofia Embankment opposite the Kremlin, which allowed him to produce 2000 fire pumps per year. This was later followed by a branch in Baku, plus a second factory in Moscow near the Butyrsk Gate. However, it was not until 1896 that List built his first steam fire engines, which were also the first ever produced in Russia and drew heavily on Western European designs. By the time of List's death in 1913, the company had reputedly built 3500 fire engines and was employing around 1300 people. The firm also built a number of automobile fire engines from 1907 onwards, but fire Depts in Russia were generally slow to accept these. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, List's factories were nationalised by the Bolsheviks but continued to produce fire-fighting equipment until at least the 1930s.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
1912 |
n/a |
Pozharno-Tekhnicheskaya Vystavka, Chelyabinsk, Russia |
|
Ljusne (Sweden)
|
|
|
The history of the Ljusne works can be traced back to 1671, when the Royal Board of Mines granted permission for a blast furnace and several forges to be built in the town, which lies around 140 miles north of Stockholm. A sawmill was also constructed in the 1850s to take advantage of the abundant timber resources in the region. In 1876 an offshoot company was formed, known as Ljusne Mekaniska Verkstad (Ljusne Mechanical Workshop), to build steam boilers, stationary and portable steam engines, steam pumps and sawmill equipment. On 28th September 1877, they also unveiled a prototype steam fire engine, which was a copy of an American engine built by Nichols & Co. of Vermont that had been imported into the country for trials earlier that year. Their first production engine, a No.5 size, was delivered to Motala on July 14th 1878 after being exhibited at an agricultural show in Jönköping, where it won an award - it was demonstrated over the next few days by Ljusne's representative, the engineer C.A. Hellstrand. The next two engines sold were No.3 size units that went to Hudiksvall and Söderhamn in August and October 1878, respectively. In 1881 the Ljusne concern merged with the Woxna ironworks, some 50 miles to the west - this had been established in 1726 and had been manged with great success by the German businessman Wilhelm Kempe since 1848. The resulting company became known as Ljusne-Woxna AG and a private railway was built to connect the two factories. Sadly Kempe passed away in 1883 and with him ended the production of Ljusne steam fire engines. The drawings and patterns for the engines were acquired by C.A. Hellstrand, and production of steam fire engines was subsequently initiated at the Ludwigsberg factory in Stockholm (see below).
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
1878 |
No.5 |
Väsby Kungsgård, Sala, Sweden |
| n/a |
1881 |
No.4A |
Sandvikens Brandmuseum, Sandviken, Sweden |
| n/a |
1882 |
No.3 |
Fire Station, Östersund, Sweden |
| n/a |
1890? |
No.3 |
Brandbilsmuseet, Gysinge, Sweden |
| n/a |
n/a |
No.4 |
Mönsterås Hembygdsmuseum, Mönsterås, Sweden |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Brandmuseum, Munkfors, Sweden |
|
Ludwigsberg (Sweden)
|
|
Jacques Lamm established a foundry and mechanical workshop at Skinnarviken, just outside Stockholm in 1843, naming it "Ludwigsberg" in honour of his father, Solomon Ludwig Lamm. The business grew rapidly over the next few decades to become one of the largest in Sweden, and in 1881, after the death of Jacques Lamm, control of Ludwigsbergs Verkstads AB (Ludwigsberg Workshop Ltd) passed to his son, Carl Robert Lamm. In 1883 Ludwigsberg began building steam fire engines to Ljusne's design, after the latter's representative, C.A. Hellstrand, acquired the drawings and patents for these (the engines carried both the Ljusne and Ludwigsberg names initially). Ludwigsberg engines were offered in a range of sizes, and in addtion to the standard four-wheeled engine, there was also a two-wheeled version for use with a single horse. As well as being extremely popular on the home market, Ludwigsberg steam fire engines were sold as far afield as Spain and India. When the company was bought out by Luth & Rosén AB in 1904, this popularity was reflected in the decision to maintain the Ludwigsberg name. At the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, there was a Ludwigsberg stand displaying such products as pumps, steam and motor fire engines, high-pressure air-compressors, ice and refrigerating machines, steam turbines, etc. However, in 1916 the Ludwigsberg name was eventually dropped altogether, and with it seems to have ended the production of steam fire engines.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 122 |
1892 |
No.4A |
Gamla Linköping, Sweden |
| 307 |
1895 |
No.4A |
Brandkårsmuseum, Borås, Sweden |
| 433 |
1900 |
n/a |
Danmarks Tekniske Museum, Helsingør, Denmark |
| 453 |
1900 |
n/a |
Savonlinnan VPK, Savonlinna, Finland |
| 481 |
1905 |
No.5 |
Fire Brigade, Örebro, Sweden |
| 499 |
1894 |
No.9 |
Fire Station, Sollefteå, Sweden |
| 555 |
1902 |
n/a |
Kuusankosken Palomuseo, Kouvola, Finland |
| 588 |
1904 |
No.6 |
Kai Piirainen, Kotka, Finland |
| 589 |
1904 |
No.7 |
Motala, Sweden |
| 598 |
1905 |
No.7 |
Tranås Vagnsmuseum, Tranås, Sweden |
| 646 |
1908 |
n/a |
Jokioinen, Finland |
| 682 |
1910 |
n/a |
Färingsö Hembygdsförening, Ekerö, Sweden |
| 722 |
1912 |
No.3 |
Fire Brigade, Uddevalla, Sweden |
| n/a |
1886 |
No.1 |
Marinmuseum, Karlskrona, Sweden |
| n/a |
1888 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| n/a |
1888 |
n/a |
Sundsvall, Sweden |
| n/a |
1889 |
n/a |
Plataforma Bombers Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain |
| n/a |
1890 |
No.4A |
Pori, Finland |
| n/a |
1892 |
No.3 |
Brandmuseet, Råå-Helsingborg, Sweden |
| n/a |
1894 |
n/a |
Trondheim, Norway |
| n/a |
1894 |
No.3 |
Landskrona, Sweden? |
| n/a |
1896 |
No.3 |
Faktorimuseet, Eskilstuna, Sweden |
| n/a |
1900 |
n/a |
Kristianstad, Sweden |
| n/a |
1901 |
No.7 |
Teknikens och Sjöfartens Hus, Malmö, Sweden |
| n/a |
1896 |
No.7 |
Vagnmuséet, Malmö, Sweden |
| n/a |
1902 |
n/a |
Turun Keskuspaloaseman Museotila Kellari, Turku, Finland |
| n/a |
1908 |
n/a |
Trelleborgs Museum, Trelleborg, Sweden |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Kuusankosken Palomuseo, Kouvola, Finland |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Porin VPK, Pori, Finland |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Kaukas Factory Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Brandkårsmuseet, Simonstorp, Sweden |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Forsbacka, Sweden? |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Lund, Sweden |
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Magirus (Germany)
|
|
Conrad Dietrich Magirus was born in Ulm in 1824, the son of a grocer and factory owner. As a young man he spent seven years in Italy gaining valuable business experience, before returning to Ulm and taking charge of the local fire Dept. He soon realised the shortcomings of the equipment available at that time, so in 1864 he established his own factory to manufacture all kinds of fire-fighting equipment, but especially portable ladders. By the turn of the century, Magirus was experimenting with the use of steam power, and in 1902 they produced a prototype steam fire engine, which was named "Josefine" after chief engineer Josef Steinhauser. In July 1903 the company completed its first self-propelled steam fire engine for the Berufsfeuerwehr Köln (Köln Fire Service), and this was followed by a similar machine for Munich in 1904. The boilers were fired by petrol, which allowed rapid heating and almost smokeless operation; the two-cylinder engine produced around 60 hp and this was coupled to a dual-piston pump that moved around 2000 litres of water per minute. The drive to the rear wheels was via chains and the whole outfit weighed 4750 kg. Magirus built a total of 17 steam fire engines, of which eight were self-propelled and the rest were horse-drawn; the last engine, a large horse-drawn outfit, was supplied to the town of Wismar in 1914. The company still operates today under the name Magirus Brandschutztechnik, and is one of the leading European manufacturers of fire trucks and turntable ladders.
|
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
1908 |
n/a |
Feuerwehr Kirchheim, Germany |
|
Merryweather & Sons (England)
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The Merryweather story begins with the firm of Hadley, Simpkin and Lott of Long Acre, London, who had by the late 1700s established a successful business building fire-fighting apparatus. In 1807 they took on an apprentice, Moses Merryweather, who went on to marry Henry Lott's niece in 1836. By this time Lott had become the sole partner, and when he retired, Moses took over the company and renamed it Merryweather & Sons. The company built its first steam fire engine in 1861 - named "Deluge", it was followed a year later by "Torrent", and both engines went to Frederick Hodges' private fire brigade in Lambeth. In 1863 Merryweather entered the engine "Sutherland" with twin horizontal cylinders in an international competition at Crystal Palace, and took first prize; the engine was subsequently purchased by the Admiralty for use at Devonport Dockyard, where it served until 1905. When Moses Merryweather passed away at the age of 79, the company was taken over by his son Richard, and on his death in 1877, it passed to his younger brother, James Compton Merryweather. It was under his dynamic leadership that it would become a world-leader in steam fire engine production: by the turn of the century, Merryweather were Fire Engine Makers by Appointment to the Royal Family, and their steam fire engines were in use in every corner of the globe. In 1885 they introduced the "Greenwich" model with twin horizontal cylinders; this was followed a decade later by the even more popular "Greenwich Gem" that was built in several sizes that could deliver from 200 to 500 gallons per minute. In 1899 Merryweather & Sons introduced their first self-propelled steam fire engine, christened the "Fire King", and within three years it had all but replaced the horse-drawn engine on the home market at least. However, by this time steam power was already starting to be threatened by the internal combustion engine, and as early as 1903 Merryweather built a petrol-powered self-propelled chemical engine. The company increasingly shifted its focus towards motor-powered fire engines to meet the challenge of firms such as Dennis and Leyland, and Merryweather & Sons would prove themselves just as successful in this new arena as they had in the previous one. The company maintained and developed its reputation for the highest quality fire engines, and are still producing fire-fighting equipment under the Merryweather & Sons name to this day.
NOTE: Merryweather engines are generally stamped with a number on the pump and the boiler. These numbers would have initially been the same, but if the engine had a replacement boiler during its life then this number will be higher than the pump number - this is shown below by a number in squared brackets after the original pump/boiler number where known. Because of the lack of data for many surviving Merryweather engines, they are listed below by geographical location rather than number.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
1905 |
Curricle Valiant |
Bomberos Voluntarios de Ensenada, Argentina |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Bodegas Lopez, Mendoza, Argentina |
| n/a |
c.1907 |
Greenwich Gem |
Bomberos Voluntarios de San Fernando, Argentina |
| 1378 |
1895 |
County Council |
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia |
| n/a (1) |
n/a |
Valiant |
Museum of Fire, Penrith, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| 2351 (2) |
1905 |
Greenwich Gem |
Johnny Nuttin, Marke, Belgium |
| n/a |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Bakkersmolen, Essen-Wildert, Belgium |
| 8530 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Belgium |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Palhoça, Santa Catarina, Brazil |
| n/a (3) |
n/a |
(Greenwich Gem) |
Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil |
| n/a |
1865 |
County Council |
Museu Histórico do Corpo de Bombeiros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| n/a |
1896 |
Squire's |
Museu Histórico do Corpo de Bombeiros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| n/a (4) |
n/a |
(Double Vertical) |
Museu Histórico do Corpo de Bombeiros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Museu do Trem, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| n/a |
n/a |
Metropolitan |
Museu Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich |
Museu Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil |
| n/a |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Museu da Companhia Paulista, Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil |
| n/a (5) |
1898 |
Greenwich Gem |
Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| n/a |
c.1872 |
Horizontal single-cyl. |
Whitby, Ontario, Canada |
| 936 |
1886 |
Greenwich |
Musée des Pompiers de Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Tercera Compañia de Bomberos de Antofagasta, Chile |
| n/a |
n/a |
Victoria |
Museo FCAB (Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia), Antofagasta, Chile |
| n/a |
c.1911 |
Greenwich Gem |
Museo Bomberil, Ancud, Chiloe, Chile |
| n/a |
c.1912 |
Greenwich Gem |
Primera Compañia de Bomberos de Angol, Chile |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Cuerpo de Bomberos de Castro, Chile |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Primera Compañía de Bomberos de Coronel, Chile |
| n/a |
c.1885 |
Horizontal single-cyl. |
Primera Compañía del Cuerpo de Bomberos de Curacautín, Chile |
| n/a |
1903? |
Valiant four-wheeled |
Duodécima Compañía de Bomberos de Iquique, Chile |
| 1532 |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Cuartel Central del Cuerpo de Bomberos de La Serena, Chile |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich vertical |
Primera Compañía de Bomberos de Los Ángeles, Chile |
| n/a |
c.1902 |
Greenwich Gem |
Cuerpo de Bomberos, Lota, Chile |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Primera Compañía del Cuerpo de Bomberos de Melipilla, Chile |
| n/a |
1869 |
Horizontal double-cyl. |
Segunda Compañía de Bomberos, Santiago, Chile |
| n/a |
1873 |
Horizontal single-cyl. |
Quinta Compañía de Bomberos, Santiago, Chile |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Santiago, Chile |
| n/a |
c.1907 |
Metropolitan |
Tercera Compañía de Bomberos de Temuco, Chile |
| 1535 |
n/a |
Victoria |
Museo de los Bomberos, Havana, Cuba |
| 1332 |
n/a |
Victoria |
Parque de los Bomberos, Matanzas, Cuba |
| 1227 |
n/a |
Victoria |
Museo Municipal de Historia, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba |
| n/a |
n/a |
Horizontal single-cyl. |
Museo del Bombero, Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| n/a |
1891 |
Greenwich |
Museo del Bombero, Guayaquil, Ecuador |
| 3257 |
1913 |
Greenwich Gem |
Milton Keynes Museum, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England |
| 1150 [2541] |
1891 |
Greenwich |
Cornwall, England |
| 4322 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Wheal Martyn, Carthew, St Austell, Cornwall, England |
| 2142 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Mount Edgcumbe, Torpoint, Cornwall, England |
| 896 |
1885 |
Metropolitan |
World of Country Life, Exmouth, Devon, England |
| 1965 |
1902 |
Greenwich Gem |
Highlands End Holiday Park, Bridport, Dorset, England |
| 8558/B785 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
British Engineerium, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England |
| 2354 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Essex, England |
| 1292 |
1890 |
County Council |
Alresford Fire Station, Alresford, Hampshire, England |
| 2890 (6) |
n/a |
(Valiant) |
National Motor Museum, Beaulieu, Hampshire, England |
| 2743 |
1908 |
Greenwich Gem |
Hollycombe House, Hampshire, England |
| n/a |
n/a |
Valiant |
Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, Herefordshire, England |
| n/a |
n/a |
Valiant |
Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery, Kent, England |
| n/a |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Lancashire, England |
| 7034 |
1940 |
Valiant Pump |
North Ings Farm Museum, Dorrington, Lincolnshire, England |
| n/a |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
North Ings Farm Museum, Dorrington, Lincolnshire, England |
| [3254] |
1887 |
Metropolitan |
Discovery Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England |
| 3702 |
1914 |
Greenwich Gem |
Bressingham Steam Museum, Diss, Norfolk, England |
| n/a |
1914 |
Valiant Pump |
Bressingham Steam Museum, Diss, Norfolk, England |
| 3343 |
1913 |
Valiant |
Time and Tide Museum, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England |
| n/a |
1885 |
County Council |
FSNMT, Weedon, Northamptonshire, England |
| 1952 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
National Railway Museum, York, North Yorkshire, England |
| n/a |
1887 |
Metropolitan |
Oxfordshire, England |
| n/a |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Bygones Museum, Claydon, Oxfordshire, England |
| n/a |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Blists Hill Victorian Town, Telford, Shropshire, England |
| n/a |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Bridgnorth Fire Station, Shropshire, England |
| 2428 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England |
| 7473 |
1941 |
Valiant Pump |
Fire & Police Museum, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England |
| 1305 |
1894 |
Greenwich |
Staffordshire, England |
| 4716 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Chasewater Railway, Staffordshire, England |
| 1868 [4296] |
1901 |
Greenwich Gem |
Long Shop Museum, Leiston, Suffolk, England |
| 2092 |
1904 |
Greenwich Gem |
Surrey, England |
| 1521 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Surrey, England |
| 1742 |
c.1890 |
Valiant Pump |
Surrey, England |
| 3543 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Surrey, England |
| 7456 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Surrey, England |
| 7610 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Surrey, England |
| 1541 |
1890 |
Double Vertical |
Shipton-on-Stour Fire Service, Shipton-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England |
| 7227 |
1940 |
Valiant Pump |
Wiltshire, England |
| 1258 |
1880 |
Horizontal single-cyl. |
National Railway Museum, York, North Yorkshire, England |
| n/a |
1863 |
Admiralty |
Science Museum at Wroughton, Wiltshire, England |
| n/a |
1902 |
n/a |
Science Museum at Wroughton, Wiltshire, England |
| 2577 |
1905 |
Valiant Pump |
Redditch, Worcestershire, England |
| n/a |
n/a |
District Council |
England |
| n/a |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Musée Maurice Dufresne, Azay-le-Rideau, France |
| n/a |
n/a |
Squire's |
Musée du Cheval et de l'Attelage, Liverdy-en-Brie, France |
| 1203 |
n/a |
Horizontal single-cyl. |
Musée du Sapeur-Pompier, Mulhouse, France |
| 1314 |
n/a |
Greenwich |
Musée du Sapeur-Pompier, Mulhouse, France |
| 3787 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
France |
| n/a |
n/a |
Horizontal single-cyl. |
Berufsfeuerwehr Regensburg, Germany |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich |
North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany |
| 3272 (7) |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Zollern, Dortmund-Bövinghausen, Germany |
| 954 |
1887 |
Metropolitan |
Feuerwehrmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 1582 |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Feuerwehrmuseum Schloss Salem, Salem, Germany |
| 1821 (8) |
1898 |
Valiant four-wheeled |
Feuerwehrmuseum Schloss Salem, Salem, Germany |
| n/a |
n/a |
Victoria |
Mysore Rail Museum, Mysore, Karnataka, India |
| n/a |
1899 |
Greenwich |
National Transport Museum of Ireland, Howth, Fingal, Ireland |
| [5062]? |
1880 |
Greenwich Gem |
Jameson Distillery, Midleton, Co. Cork, Ireland |
| 3872 |
n/a |
Valiant |
Jurby Transport Museum, Jurby, Isle of Man |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Museo Vigili del Fuoco, Carate Brianza, Italy |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Galleria Storica dei Vigili del Fuoco, Mantova, Italy |
| 3024 |
n/a |
Valiant |
Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia, Milan, Italy |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Museo Storico dei Vigili del Fuoco, Milan, Italy? |
| n/a |
n/a |
Portable High Speed |
Museo Storico dei Vigili del Fuoco, Milan, Italy |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Rome, Italy |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Turin, Italy |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Vercelli, Italy |
| n/a (9) |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Japan Firefighters Association (Nissho), Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
Metropolitan |
Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico |
| n/a (10) |
n/a |
Horizontal double-cyl. |
Nationaal Brandweer Museum, Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands |
| n/a |
1901 |
Greenwich Gem |
Hall of Flame, Ferrymead, New Zealand |
| n/a |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Southward Car Museum, Otaihanga, New Zealand |
| 466 |
n/a |
Horizontal single-cyl. |
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Holywood, Co. Down, Northern Ireland |
| 1925 |
1908? |
n/a |
Carrickfergus Museum, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland |
| n/a |
n/a |
Victoria |
Cuartel General del Cuerpo Nacional de Bomberos, Lima, Peru |
| n/a (11) |
n/a |
Greenwich |
Compañía de Bomberos Garibaldi No.7, Callao, Peru |
| n/a |
c.1898 |
Victoria |
Compañía de Bomberos Salvadora Callao No.9, Callao, Peru |
| n/a |
c.1894 |
Greenwich Gem |
Compañía de Bomberos Salvadora Lima No.10, Lima, Peru |
| n/a |
1895 |
Valiant Mansion |
Compañía de Bomberos Olaya No.13, Chorrillos, Lima, Peru |
| n/a |
c.1907 |
Valiant four-wheeled |
Compañía de Bomberos Grau No.16, Barranco, Lima, Peru |
| n/a |
n/a |
Horizontal single-cyl. |
Museu de Marinha, Lisbon, Portugal |
| n/a |
n/a |
Horizontal double-cyl. |
Museu de Marinha, Lisbon, Portugal |
| n/a |
n/a |
Metropolitan |
Museu de Marinha, Lisbon, Portugal |
| n/a |
n/a |
Curricle Valiant |
Bombeiros Municipais do Funchal, Madeira, Portugal |
| 4424 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Russia |
| 2691 |
1908 |
Greenwich Gem |
Alloa, Scotland |
| 1898 |
1901 |
Greenwich Gem |
Museum of Fire, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1818 |
1901 |
Double Vertical |
Museum of Transport, Glasgow, Scotland |
| 5216 |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Glenkinchie Distillery, Pencaitland, East Lothian, Scotland |
| n/a |
1901 |
Greenwich Gem |
Strathclyde Fire & Rescue Museum, Strathclyde, Scotland |
| n/a (12) |
n/a |
(Greenwich Gem) |
James Hall Museum of Transport, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| n/a |
n/a |
Metropolitan |
The Big Hole, Kimberley, South Africa |
| n/a |
n/a |
Metropolitan |
Plataforma Bombers Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain |
| n/a |
1896 |
Curricle Valiant |
Plataforma Bombers Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain |
| n/a |
1896 |
Greenwich Gem |
Museo Naval de Ferrol, A Coruña, Spain |
| n/a (13) |
n/a |
(Valiant) |
Collecció d'Automòbils de Salvador Claret, Girona, Spain |
| n/a |
n/a |
Curricle Valiant |
Parque de Bomberos, Castellón de la Plana, Spain |
| n/a |
n/a |
Curricle Valiant |
Museo del Fuego y de los Bomberos, Zaragoza, Spain |
| 1351 (14) |
1895 |
Double Vertical |
Feuerwehr- und Handwerker-Museum, Endingen, Switzerland |
| n/a (15) |
1893 |
Greenwich |
Museo de la Revolución Industrial, Fray Bentos, Uruguay |
| n/a |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
San Jose Fire Museum, San Jose, California, USA |
| [2990] (16) |
1868 |
Horizontal single-cyl. |
New Hampshire, USA |
| 1728 (17) |
1900 |
Greenwich Gem |
Maryland, USA |
| n/a (18) |
1885 |
Greenwich Gem |
Central Insurance Co., Van Wert, Ohio, USA |
| n/a (19) |
1901 |
Greenwich Gem |
Fire Museum, York, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 3049 |
1907 |
Greenwich Gem |
Spooner's Cafe & Bar, Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales |
| n/a |
n/a |
Valiant Pump |
Ceredigion, Wales |
| 1788 |
1898 |
Greenwich Gem |
Penrhyn Castle, Llandygai, Gwynedd, Wales |
| 2366 |
n/a |
Greenwich Gem |
Welsh Transport Heritage Centre, Gorseinon, Swansea, Wales |
| (1) Mounted on four-wheeled chassis. |
| (2) Ex-Aelbeke Fire Brigade, but new to John Sumner & Co., Manchester, England. |
| (3) Boiler and engine/pump mounted on truck in 1929. |
| (4) Boiler and engine/pump mounted on Latil truck in 1925. |
| (5) Ex-Culter Paper Mills, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
| (6) Fitted to petrol-engined estate fire engine based on 1907 Gobron Brillié touring car. |
| (7) Ex-Buckfastleigh Fire Station, Devon, England. |
| (8) Ex-Lord Leconfield, England. |
| (9) Gift from Peru in 1993. |
| (10) Rebuilt with Bikkers boiler. |
| (11) Boiler and engine/pump mounted on truck in 1930. |
| (12) Boiler and engine/pump only; mounted on truck for display purposes. |
| (13) Used as power source for self-propelled carriage. |
| (14) Ex-Wakefield Lodge, Northamptonshire, England. |
| (15) Wheels removed and used as stationary pump; ex-Liverpool Fire Brigade, England. |
| (16) Ex-Earl of Jersey's Middleton Park estate, West Yorkshire, England. |
| (17) Ex-Aberdeen Fire Brigade, Scotland. |
| (18) Ex-Sherborne, Dorset, England (formerly in Henry Ford Museum). |
| (19) Ex-Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England. |
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Mieusset (France)
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Claude Mieusset established a factory in Lyon in 1860 to build fire-fighting equipment, including hand-operated fire pumps. He later expanded his range to include steam fire engines, two of which were sold to the city of Lyon in 1896 and 1905, while others were shipped overseas. These appear to have been influenced by Shand Mason's designs and featured a two- or three-cylinder pump mounted vertically behind the boiler. Mieusset is also credited with building the world's first three-cylinder internal combustion engine in 1885. Around the turn of the century Claude's son joined the business and they began to build automobiles and petrol-powered fire engines. Claude Mieusset passed away in 1927 and two years later the firm was bought out by Maheu-Labrosse.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 1605 |
1917 |
n/a |
Moulin de Chalier, Arpaillargues et Aureillac, Gard, France |
| n/a |
1893? |
n/a |
Undicesima Compagnia di Pompieri di Santiago, Chile |
| n/a |
c.1912 |
n/a |
Segunda Compañía de Bomberos, San Fernando, Chile |
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Nichols & Co. (USA)
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Roscoe J. Gould of Newark, New Jersey began building steam fire engines in 1865. His "Variable Pump Fire Engines" had two pumps on the same piston rod with a valve to shut one off, so that all the power of the cylinder could be exerted on one pump when using a long hose or when a larger amount of water needed to be discharged. This design was developed by John N. Dennisson, also of Newark. In 1875 the Gould company was purchased by B.S. Nichols & Co. of Burlington, Vermont. Nichols displayed a "Gould" engine at Philadelphia's Centennial Exhibition in 1876, where it was commended as simple, compact and strong, and awarded the highest medal and two diplomas; the price was quoted as £1000. The following year a Nichols & Co. steam fire engine took part in trials in Sweden against British-built Merryweather and Shand Mason engines, and was used as the basis for the first fire engines manufactured by the Swedish Ljusne company. In 1886 the Nichols company was taken over by W.S. Lang, Goodhue & Co., who continued to build "Gould" fire engines for several more years.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 31 |
1876 |
5th size |
Louisiana Fire Museum, Gretna, Louisiana, USA |
| 34 |
1876 |
n/a |
Tekniska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
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Nott (USA)
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William S. Nott was an Irish immigrant to the United States, whose first employment was with the firm of E. Preston & Co., a manufacturer of industrial belts and fire equipment in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1879 he became a partner in the firm, which was renamed Preston & Nott, but by 1887 he had enough money behind him to strike out on his own as the W.S. Nott Company. Around the turn of the century Nott decided to commence building steam fire engines, which soon brought him into direct conflict with the newly-incorporated International Fire Engine Company, which was attempting to eliminate all competition in the manufacture of fire apparatus. The first Nott steamer was completed in January 1902, and he soon found himself unable to cope with demand; a new factory was constructed in northeast Minneapolis to increase production, which allowed Nott to offer six different sizes of engine. When the International Fire Engine Co. collapsed in 1904, Nott found himself able to compete with rival manufacturers on more equal terms, meeting the challenge of American-LaFrance with his "Universal" steam fire engine design. The year 1914 spelt the end of domestic orders for steam fire engines as motor-powered engines began to dominate, but Nott was unwilling to make the necessary investment to compete in this new market and wound up his Nott Fire Engine Co. subsiduary in 1915. However, Nott continued to be involved with the manufacture and sales of fire equipment until the 1940s.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 432 |
n/a |
n/a |
Charlottesville Volunteer Fire Co., Charlottesville, Virginia, USA |
| 547 |
n/a |
2nd size |
Los Angeles County Fire Museum, Bellflower, California, USA |
| 551 |
n/a |
2nd size |
Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, California, USA |
| 558 |
1904 |
1st size |
Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, Tigard, Oregon, USA |
| 633 |
1905 |
1st size |
Wyckoff Fire Dept, Wyckoff, New Jersey, USA |
| 646 (1) |
n/a |
3rd size |
Freeport Exempt Firemen’s Association, Freeport, New York, USA |
| 651 |
1905 |
1st size |
La Crosse County Historical Society, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA |
| 685 |
n/a |
n/a |
Florida, USA |
| 691 |
n/a |
n/a |
Jackson Fire Museum, Jackson, Mississippi, USA |
| 736 (2) |
n/a |
n/a |
Firehouse 3 Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, USA |
| 737 |
n/a |
3rd size |
Tucson Fire Dept, Tucson, Arizona, USA |
| 740 (3) |
n/a |
3rd size |
East Hampton Fire Dept, East Hampton, New York, USA |
| 786 |
n/a |
n/a |
Coos Bay Fire Dept, Coos Bay, Oregon, USA |
| 791 (4) |
1912 |
n/a |
Minnesota, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Museo Municipal, Sagua la Grande, Cuba |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Napa, California, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Koochiching County Historical Society, International Falls, Minnesota, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Royalton Historical Museum, Royalton, Minnesota, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
3rd size |
Natchez Fire Dept, Natchez, Mississippi, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Wausau Fire Dept, Wausau, Wisconsin, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Laramie Fire Dept, Laramie, Wyoming, USA |
| (1) Fitted with 1918 American-LaFrance Type 31 tractor. |
| (2) Possibly rebuild of Clapp & Jones engine. |
| (3) Fitted with 1919 American-LaFrance Type 32 tractor. |
| (4) Fitted with American-LaFrance Type 31 tractor. |
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Reaney & Neafie / Neafie & Levy (USA)
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Jacob G. Neafie was born in New Jersey in 1815, and after serving his apprenticeship as a machinist he found employment in with the shipbuilders Thomas Holloway of Philadelphia. In 1844 Neafie formed a partnership with Thomas Reaney and William Smith under the name of Reaney, Neafie & Co.; the following year Smith was replaced by Captain John P. Levy as the financial partner. In the 1850s a local inventor by the name of Joseph L. Parry developed a design for a steam fire engine, which subsequently came to the notice of the Philadelphia Hose Company No.1. In 1857, having raised the necessary funds, they approached Reaney, Neafie & Co. to build an engine to Parry's design. Parry himself supervised the construction and the engine was given its first trial on Christmas Day 1857, being delivered to the Company No.1 early the following year. The engine proved a great success, and in August 1858 it was sent to Boston to participate in the steam fire engine contest to be held there. Reaney & Neafie were offered in three sizes, and by the time Thomas Reaney retired from the firm in 1861 they had build several dozen steamers. The company subsequently became known as Neafie & Levy, and continued to fulfill orders for engines from across the United States and even from overseas (the 38th engine built in 1868 went to Cuba). John Levy died in 1868 and the firm stopped producing steam fire engines several years later, although Neafie continued shipbuilding for another three decades.
(Note: Engines to Parry's design were also built by S.W. Landell & Co., Hunnsworth, Eakin & Co. and the Philadelphia Hydrauilic Works.)
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 1 |
1858 |
1st size |
Fireman's Hall Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 28 |
1862 |
2nd size |
Haggin Museum, Stockton, California, USA |
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Řezáč (Czech Republic)
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The firm of Řezáč a spol. was based in Prague, but no further information has been found so far.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
1912 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Uherský Brod, Czech Republic |
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Ronald (Canada)
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Andrew Hyslop and John D. Ronald established an engineering and shipbuilding firm at Chatham, Ontario in the mid 19th century. In the 1860s they also turned their attention to building steam fire engines. However, financial difficulties, and an acrimonious dispute with the town of Chatham over their choice of steam fire engine to replace its hand-powered engines, led to the sale of the Hyslop & Ronald plant to engineer David Park in 1877. The following year, J.D. Ronald was approached by the town of Brussels, Ontario, with the offer of a loan of $20,000 to relocate his works there. In addition to steam fire engines, the newly-established Brussels Steam Fire Engine & Agricultural Works built separators and offered castings for implements such as reapers and mowers. From the 1880s the company began shipping steamers to western Canada, with engines being purchased by fire Depts at Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver. Ronald was still building steam fire engines in the mid 1890s, but the subsequent fate of the company is unclear; no doubt they eventually found it impossible to compete with cheaper engines being imported from the United States.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
1870 |
(Hyslop & Ronald) |
Civic Center, Chatham, Ontario, Canada |
| n/a |
1879 |
n/a |
Doon Heritage Village, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada |
| n/a |
c.1882 |
n/a |
Fire Fighters Museum, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| n/a |
1883 |
n/a |
Fire Department, Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada |
| n/a |
1890 |
n/a |
Brant Museum, Brantford, Ontario, Canada |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Firefighters Museum of Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Firefighters Museum, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada |
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Rose (England)
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William Rose established a business manufacturing hoses, fire escapes and other fire-fighting equipment at the Metropolitan Works, Oldfield Road, Salford in north-west England. By the 1890s, he had supplied over a hundred fire brigades with horse-drawn fire manual fire engines, fire escapes, hose tenders and carts. In 1897 Rose built his first steam fire engines, which were very similar design to those offered by Shand, Mason & Co. The first two engines built were 350 gpm machines and went to Selly Oak and Kings Norton in Birmingham, but the range was later expanded to include 250 gpm and 450 gpm models. Rose's engines were of very high quality and won a number of awards, often proving themselves superior to the products of Merryweather and Shand Mason. William Rose & Co. finished building steam fire engines in 1902, but the Metropolitan Works continued producing fire hoses until its eventual closure in 1974.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 466 |
1892 |
Metropolitan |
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Holywood, Co. Down, Northern Ireland |
| n/a |
1876 |
Metropolitan |
Burton upon Trent Fire Station, Staffordshire, England |
| n/a |
n/a |
Metropolitan |
Essen, Germany |
| n/a |
n/a |
Metropolitan |
n/a |
| n/a |
1900 |
Double Vertical |
n/a |
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Rosenbauer & Kneitschel (Austria)
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In 1866, Johann Rosenbauer established a trading house for fire-fighting supplies in Linz, Austria. In 1906 Konrad Rosenbauer joined forces with Heinrich Kneitschel, who had previously been head of production with the Flader company, to produce his own fire equipment under the name of Rosenbauer & Kneitschel. In 1910 the company produced its first petrol-powered fire pump, and this was closely followed by the first steam fire engine, which was sold to the Nettingsdorf paper factory in Linz.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
1913 |
n/a |
Oö. Feuerwehrmuseum/Historisches Feuerwehrzeughaus St. Florian, Austria |
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Shand, Mason & Co. (England)
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|
Note: Shand Mason engines are generally marked with a number on the pump and sometimes on the boiler too - where known, the boiler number is shown below by a number in squared brackets after the pump number. Because of the lack of data for many surviving Shand Mason engines, they are listed below by geographical location rather than number.
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| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
n/a |
London Brigade Vertical |
Fire Brigade, La Boca, Argentina |
| n/a |
n/a |
Light Portable Pump |
San Antonio railway works, Patagonia, Argentina |
| n/a |
n/a |
London Brigade Vertical |
Georgetown, Ascension Island |
| n/a (1) |
n/a |
Double Vertical |
Antique Mechanical Music Museum, St Peters, New South Wales, Australia |
| n/a |
1891 |
Equilibrium |
Museum of Fire, Penrith, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| n/a |
1895 |
London Brigade Vertical |
South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service, Adelaide, South Australia |
| n/a |
n/a |
Volunteer |
Fire Services Museum, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| n/a |
n/a |
Double Vertical |
Autoworld, Brussels, Belgium |
| n/a |
1871 |
Vertical single-cyl. |
Brockville Museum, Brockville, Ontario, Canada |
| n/a |
1871 |
Equilibrium |
Pompiers Auxiliares de Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| n/a |
n/a |
Equilibrium |
Museo Bomberil "Benito Riquelme", Talca, Chile |
| n/a |
n/a |
Equilibrium |
Museo Nacional Masónico, Havana, Cuba |
| n/a |
n/a |
Double Vertical |
Sala de los Bomberos, Havana, Cuba |
| n/a |
n/a |
London Brigade Vertical |
Národní Technické Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic |
| 2015 |
1909 |
Double Vertical |
Bedfordshire & Luton Fire & Rescue Service, Bedfordshire, England |
| n/a |
1894 |
Double Vertical |
Royal Berkshire Fire & Rescue Service, Berkshire, England |
| n/a |
n/a |
Equilibrium |
Museum Collections Centre, Birmingham, England |
| n/a |
1898 |
Stationary Pump |
Museum Collections Centre, Birmingham, England |
| n/a |
1911 |
Double Vertical |
Prestwood, Buckinghamshire, England |
| n/a (2) |
1912 |
Double Vertical |
Prickwillow Engine Trust, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England |
| n/a |
1880 |
London Brigade Vertical |
Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service, Cheshire, England |
| n/a |
1893 |
Double Vertical |
Tatton Park, Cheshire, England |
| n/a |
1893 |
Double Vertical |
Flambards Theme Park, Helston, Cornwall, England |
| n/a |
1913 |
Volunteer |
Devon, England |
| n/a |
1892 |
Equilibrium |
Poole Museum, Poole, Dorset, England |
| 1498 |
1901 |
Double Vertical |
Beamish - The Living Museum of the North, Stanley, Co. Durham, England |
| n/a |
1903 |
Double Vertical |
Beamish - The Living Museum of the North, Stanley, Co. Durham, England |
| 1833 |
1890 |
Double Vertical |
British Engineerium, Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England |
| 1127 |
1875 |
Volunteer |
Fire Service College, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire, England |
| 1909 |
1907 |
Double Vertical |
Fire Service College, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire, England |
| 1558 |
1906 |
Double Vertical |
Badminton Estate, Gloucestershire, England |
| 561 |
1885 |
London Brigade Vertical |
Milestones Museum, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England |
| n/a |
1904 |
n/a |
Breamore Countryside Museum, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England |
| 1686 |
1905 |
Double Vertical |
Hampshire, England |
| 1639 (3) |
n/a |
Double Vertical |
Hampshire, England |
| 1842 |
1908 |
Double Vertical |
Hampshire, England |
| n/a |
1896 |
Double Vertical |
Hertfordshire Fire & Rescue Service, Hertfordshire, England |
| 2017 (4) |
1876 |
London Brigade Vertical |
Hertfordshire, England |
| 2606 |
1897 |
Double Vertical |
Kent Fire & Rescue Service Museum, Maidstone, Kent, England |
| 1456 |
1900 |
Light Portable Pump |
Kent, England |
| 1400 |
1898 |
Double Vertical |
British Commercial Vehicle Museum, Leyland, Lancashire, England |
| 1981 |
1880 |
London Brigade Vertical |
Snibston Discovery Museum, Leicestershire, England |
| n/a |
1898 |
Double Vertical |
Normanby Hall Museum, Burton-upon-Stather, Lincolnshire, England |
| n/a |
1901 |
Double Vertical |
National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool, England |
| 715 |
1891 |
London Brigade Vertical |
London Fire Brigade Museum, Southwark, London, England |
| 1843 |
n/a |
Double Vertical |
Greater Manchester Fire Service Museum, Rochdale, England |
| n/a (5) |
1890 |
Double Vertical |
Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Brentford, Middlesex, England |
| n/a |
1896 |
Double Vertical |
Whitewebbs Museum of Transport, Enfield, Middlesex, England |
| n/a |
c.1895 |
Stationary Pump |
Bressingham Steam Museum, Diss, Norfolk, England |
| 1895 |
1881 |
Equilibrium |
Bridewell Museum, Norwich, Norfolk, England |
| n/a |
1905 |
Double Vertical |
York Castle Museum, York, North Yorkshire, England |
| n/a |
1883 |
Double Vertical |
North Yorkshire, England |
| n/a (6) |
n/a |
Double Vertical |
Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England |
| 1482 |
1896 |
Equilibrium |
Richmond, North Yorkshire, England |
| n/a |
1882 |
Equilibrium |
Fire & Police Museum, Sheffied, South Yorkshire, England |
| n/a |
n/a |
Light Portable Pump |
Wortley Top Forge, Sheffied, South Yorkshire, England |
| n/a |
1911 |
Volunteer |
Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England |
| 1001 |
c.1895 |
Light Portable Pump |
Surrey, England |
| 1625 |
n/a |
Double Vertical |
Surrey, England |
| n/a |
1909 |
Double Vertical |
Warwickshire, England |
| n/a |
1909 |
Light Portable Pump |
Warwickshire, England |
| 1592 |
1901 |
Double Vertical |
West Midlands Fire Service, England |
| n/a |
1875 |
Equilibrium |
Bradford Industrial Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England |
| n/a |
1891 |
Equilibrium |
Armley Mills - Leeds Industrial Museum, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England |
| 1996 |
1892 |
Double Vertical |
Arundel Castle, West Sussex, England |
| n/a |
1896 |
Volunteer |
Warnham Court, Horsham, West Sussex, England |
| n/a (7) |
n/a |
n/a |
Petworth House, Petworth, West Sussex, England |
| 964 |
1894 |
Double Vertical |
Science Museum at Wroughton, Wiltshire, England |
| n/a |
n/a |
Double Vertical |
Musée des sapeurs-pompiers de Lyon et du Rhône, Lyon, France |
| n/a |
n/a |
Self-Propelled |
City Museum, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India |
| n/a (8) |
n/a |
(Double Vertical) |
Museo Vigili del Fuoco, Carate Brianza, Italy |
| n/a (9) |
n/a |
Equilibrium |
Museo Storico dei Vigili del Fuoco, Milan, Italy |
| n/a (10) |
n/a |
n/a |
Museo Storico dei Vigili del Fuoco, Milan, Italy |
| n/a (11) |
n/a |
(Double Vertical) |
Museo Storico dei Vigili del Fuoco, Milan, Italy |
| n/a (12) |
n/a |
(Equilibrium) |
Museo Storico dei Vigili del Fuoco, Milan, Italy |
| n/a |
n/a |
Double Vertical |
Trieste, Italy |
| n/a |
c.1897 |
Light Portable Pump |
Kurabo Museum, Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
London Brigade Vertical |
Kyoto Fire Academy, Kyoto, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
Equilibrium |
Tokyo Fire Academy, Tokyo, Japan |
| n/a |
n/a |
Light Portable Pump |
Tokyo Fire Museum, Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan |
| [1198] |
1899 |
Double Vertical |
Latvijas Ugunsdzēsības Muzejs, Riga, Latvia |
| n/a |
1884 |
Volunteer |
Stichting Historisch Brandweermaterieel, The Hague, Netherlands |
| 1302 |
1899 |
Equilibrium |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| n/a |
1889 |
London Brigade Vertical |
Plains Vintage Railway & Historical Museum, Ashburton, New Zealand |
| n/a |
1873 |
Single Horizontal |
Hall of Flame, Ferrymead, New Zealand |
| n/a |
1887 |
London Brigade Vertical |
Jubilee Fire Museum, Masterton, New Zealand |
| n/a |
1874 |
Equilibrium |
Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo, Norway |
| n/a |
n/a |
Equilibrium |
Fredrikstad, Norway |
| n/a |
n/a |
London Brigade Vertical |
Brannmuseet, Stavanger, Norway |
| n/a |
n/a |
Light Portable Pump |
Fire Brigade, Grimstad, Norway |
| n/a |
n/a |
Volunteer |
Museu do Regimento de Sapadores Bombeiros, Lisbon, Portugal |
| n/a |
n/a |
Light Portable Pump? |
Muzeul Naţional Tehnic, Bucharest, Romania |
| n/a (13) |
n/a |
(Double Vertical) |
Pozharno-Tekhnicheskaya Vystavka, St Petersburg, Russia |
| 1513 |
1889 |
Double Vertical Village |
Grampian Transport Museum, Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| 978 |
1873 |
Equilibrium |
Museum of Fire, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1305 |
n/a |
n/a |
Fife, Scotland |
| n/a |
1895 |
Double Vertical |
Dallas Dhu Whisky Distillery, Forres, Moray, Scotland |
| 2097 |
1900 |
Double Vertical |
Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Highland, Scotland |
| 1127 |
c.1893 |
Double Vertical |
Strathclyde Fire & Rescue Museum, Strathclyde, Scotland |
| n/a |
n/a |
Double Vertical |
Highland Folk Museum, Newtonmore, Scotland |
| n/a (14) |
n/a |
Light Portable Pump |
Grampian Transport Museum, Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
| n/a |
n/a |
New Volunteer |
Parque de Bomberos Voluntarios, Santander, Spain |
| n/a |
n/a |
Light Portable Pump |
MUBOMA, Alcoy, Spain |
| n/a |
1862 |
Double Cylinder (vert.) |
Museiföreningen Räddningstjänsten Storgöteborg, Gårda, Sweden |
| n/a |
1876? |
Equilibrium |
Museiföreningen Räddningstjänsten Storgöteborg, Gårda, Sweden |
| n/a |
n/a |
Equilibrium |
Härnösand, Sweden |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Länsmuseet, Jönköping, Sweden |
| n/a |
1877 |
Single Horizontal |
Norrköping, Sweden |
| n/a |
n/a |
London Brigade Vertical |
Izmir, Turkey |
| n/a (15) |
1890 |
Double Vertical |
Hall of Flame, Phoenix, Arizona, USA |
| n/a (16) |
1890 |
Double Vertical |
Illinois, USA? |
| n/a |
1912 |
Double Vertical |
Welsh Museum of Fire, Skewen, Neath, Wales |
| (1) Imported from UK in 1980s. |
| (2) Fitted with pneumatic tyres. |
| (3) Engine/pump only. |
| (4) Fitted with replacement engine/pump during working life. |
| (5) Originally London Brigade Vertical single-cylinder model. |
| (6) Converted to run on petrol. |
| (7) Two-cylinder horizontal engine/pump mounted on gun carriage with Clarkson boiler. |
| (8) Boiler and engine/pump only. |
| (9) Fitted with solid rubber tyres and converted to oil-fired. |
| (10) Fitted with pneumatic tyres. |
| (11) Boiler and engine/pump only. |
| (12) Boiler and engine/pump only. |
| (13) Boiler and engine/pump only. |
| (14) Mounted on Albion truck. |
| (15) Ex-Rugby Fire Brigade, Warwickshire, England. |
| (16) Ex-Warwick Fire Brigade, England (formerly in Henry Ford Museum). |
Silsby (USA)
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 39 |
1862 |
1st size |
Marysville Fire Dept, Marysville, California, USA |
| 207 |
1869 |
3rd size |
Elgin Fire Barn No. 5 Museum, Elgin, Illinois, USA |
| 208 |
1869 |
4th size |
Bucyrus Historical Society, Bucyrus, Ohio, USA |
| 232 |
1870 |
3rd size |
Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 278 |
1871 |
3rd size |
Darlington Fire Dept, Darlington, South Carolina, USA |
| 288 |
1871 |
3rd size |
Madison County Historical Society Museum, London, Ohio, USA |
| 356 |
1872 |
3rd size |
Lima Fire Fighters Memorial Museum, Lima, Ohio, USA |
| 361 |
1872 |
3rd size |
Pennsylvania National Fire Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 378 |
1872 |
3rd size |
Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, USA? |
| 400 |
1873 |
4th size |
Cambridge Fire Dept, Cambridge, Ohio, USA |
| 405 |
1873 |
3rd size |
Wade House, Greenbush, Wisconsin, USA |
| 409 |
1873 |
5th size |
Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| 413 (1) |
1873 |
3rd size |
Museum of the Albemarle, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA |
| 418 |
1873 |
3rd size |
North Lee County Historical Society, Fort Madison, Iowa, USA |
| 426 |
1873 |
3rd size |
Huron County Museum, Goderich, Ontario, Canada |
| 437 |
1874 |
2nd size |
William Cameron Fire Co. Museum, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 438 |
1874 |
2nd size |
Canal Fulton Fire Dept, Canal Fulton, Ohio, USA |
| 465 |
1874 |
4th size |
Beaufort, South Carolina, USA |
| 483 |
1874 |
3rd size |
Honesdale Fire Dept, Honesdale, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 503 |
1875 |
3rd size |
Morven Park, Leesburg, Virginia, USA |
| 514 |
1875 |
2nd size |
Delaware County Historical Society, Hopkinton, Iowa, USA |
| 534 |
1875 |
2nd size |
Fire Dept, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada |
| 548 |
1877 |
3rd size |
Hall of Flame, Phoenix, Arizona, USA |
| 557 |
1877 |
3rd size |
Brockport Fire Dept Museum, Brockport, New York, USA |
| 560 |
1877 |
3rd size |
Union Fire Co. No.1, Hamburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 562 |
1877 |
3rd size |
Bridgeton Fire Dept, Bridgeton, New Jersey, USA |
| 581 |
1878 |
2nd size |
Harlan Fire Dept, Harlan, Iowa, USA |
| 588 |
1878 |
4th size |
USA |
| 589 |
1878 |
3rd size |
Tremont Fire Company, Tremont, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 604 |
1879 |
4th size |
New Bern Firemen's Museum, New Bern, North Carolina, USA |
| 607 |
1879 |
3rd size |
Brenham Fire Dept, Brenham, Texas, USA |
| 612 |
1879 |
3rd size |
Venerable Fire Company Museum, Slinger, Wisconsin, USA |
| 616 |
1879 |
3rd size |
Salisbury Fire Dept, Salisbury, Maryland, USA |
| 626 |
1880 |
3rd size |
Firefighters Museum Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| 634 (2) |
1880 |
4th size |
Mount Holly Fire Dept, Mount Holly, New Jersey, USA |
| 636 |
1880 |
5th size |
Everett Fire Dept, Everett, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 655 |
1881 |
4th size |
Marietta Fire Museum, Marietta, Georgia, USA |
| 657 |
1881 |
5th size |
Friendship Fire Dept, Friendship, New York, USA |
| 684 |
1882 |
4th size |
Spring City Fire Dept, Spring City, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 685 |
1882 |
5th size |
Seneca Falls Museum of Waterways and Industry, New York, USA |
| 686 |
1882 |
6th size |
Alma Fire and Mining Museum, Alma, Colorado, USA |
| 688 |
1882 |
4th size |
Hanover Fire Museum, Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 693 |
1882 |
4th size |
Sanger, California, USA |
| 712 |
1882 |
5th size |
Hempstead Fire Dept, Hempstead, New York, USA |
| 714 |
1882 |
4th size |
Otter Tail County Historical Society, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, USA |
| 717 |
1883 |
3rd size |
Sioux Falls Fire Dept, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA |
| 725 |
1883 |
5th size |
Pennsylvania, USA |
| 731 |
1883 |
5th size |
Silver Dollar City, Branson, Missouri, USA |
| 758 |
1883 |
3rd size |
Chariton Fire Dept, Chariton, Iowa, USA |
| 767 |
1884 |
5th size |
Oxford, Massachusetts, USA |
| 797 |
1884 |
5th size |
Compañía de Bomberos Unión Chalaca No.1, Callao, Peru |
| 834 |
1882 |
5th size |
Transportation Museum, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA |
| 841 |
1886 |
2nd size |
Gettysburg Fire Dept, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
| 853 |
1886 |
1st size |
American-LaFrance Museum, North Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
| 854 |
1886 |
3rd size |
Phoenix Fire Co. No.2 Museum, Chillicothe, Ohio, USA |
| 856 |
1886 |
5th size |
Monroe Fire Dept, Monroe, North Carolina, USA |
| 859 |
1885 |
4th size |
Bytown Fire Brigade, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| 873 |
1887 |
5th size |
New Jersey Fire Museum, Allaire State Park, New Jersey, USA |
| 899 |
1888 |
n/a |
Washington Fire Dept, Washington, North Carolina, USA |
| 907 |
1888 |
5th size |
Los Angeles County Fire Museum, Bellflower, California, USA |
| 910 |
1888 |
5th size |
American Heritage 'Big Red' Fire Museum, Louisville, Mississippi, USA |
| 911 |
1888 |
4th size |
Cicero, New York, USA |
| 912 |
1888 |
5th size |
Old Fire Hall, Vinalhaven, Maine, USA |
| 925 |
1888 |
5th size |
New York, USA |
| 933 |
1888 |
4th size |
Bozeman Fire Dept, Bozeman, Montana, USA |
| 951 |
1889 |
2nd size |
Spokane Fire Dept, Spokane, Washington, USA |
| 962 |
1889 |
2nd size |
East Liverpool, Ohio, USA |
| 1001 |
1891 |
4th size |
Yantic Fire Engine Co., Yantic, Connecticut, USA |
| n/a |
1899 |
n/a |
Toronto Fire Dept, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Edaville Railroad, South Carver, Massachusetts, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Engine House No.5 Museum, Allendale, Michigan, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Watkins Glen Fire Dept, Watkins Glen, New York, USA |
| n/a (3) |
n/a |
n/a |
Toledo Firefighters Museum, Toledo, Ohio, USA |
| (1) Rebuilt by American Fire Engine Co. as No.2888 of 1902, 2nd size. |
| (2) Rebuilt by American Fire Engine Co. as No.3030 of 1904, 3rd size. |
| (3) Silsby frame, wheels and boiler recently fitted with non-original pump for display purposes. |
Smekal (Czech Republic)
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 7 |
1892 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Klatovy, Czech Republic |
| 8 |
1892 |
n/a |
Hasičské Muzeum, Bechyně, Czech Republic |
| 11 |
1894 |
n/a |
Expozice Požární Ochrany HZS ČR, Zbiroh, Czech Republic |
| 43 |
1901 |
n/a |
Feuerwehrmuseum, Salzbergen, Germany |
| 52 |
1904 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Semily, Czech Republic |
| 59 |
1907 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Roztoky, Czech Republic |
| 62 |
1908 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Svojanov, Czech Republic |
| 79 |
1910 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Opočno, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
1893 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Kouřim, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
1895 |
n/a |
Hasičské Muzeum, Postřekov, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
1897 |
n/a |
Hasičské Muzeum, Přibyslav, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
1907 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Polička, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
1908 |
n/a |
Veselý Kopec (open-air museum), Vysočina, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
1911 |
n/a |
Hasičské Muzeum, Ostrava-Přívoz, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
1912 |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Bořitov, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Chotětov, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Muzeum Hasičské Techniky, Chrastava, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Jilemnice, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Netolice, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Poděbrady, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Národní Technické Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Fire Brigade, Svitávka, Czech Republic |
Thirion (France)
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 86 |
1876 |
n/a |
Musée Départemental des Sapeurs Pompiers du Val d'Oise, Osny, France |
| 8047 |
1875 |
No.2 |
Louwman Museum/Nationaal Automobiel Museum, The Hague, Netherlands |
| 8876 |
1893 |
Type C |
Musée des Sapeurs-Pompiers de France, Montville |
| 10964 |
1901 |
n/a |
Musée des Sapeurs-Pompiers de France, Montville |
| 11607 |
1903 |
n/a |
Musée Départemental des Sapeurs-Pompiers, Bagnoles de l’Orne, France |
| 11623 |
1904 |
n/a |
Dives-sur-Mer, France? |
| n/a |
1878 |
n/a |
Château-Musée Louis-Philippe, Eu, Normandy, France |
| n/a |
1878 |
n/a |
Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico |
| n/a |
1896 |
n/a |
L'Espace du Sapeur-Pompier, Plougastel-Daoulas, Brittany, France |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Cuerpo de Bomberos de San Felipe, Chile |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Musée des Sapeurs-Pompiers de la Loire, Firminy, France |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Reggio Calabria, Italy? |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares, Málaga, Spain |
Thompson (Australia)
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Victoria, Australia |
Tidow (Germany)
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 2431 |
1912 |
n/a |
Freiwillige Feuerwehr Weetzen, Weetzen, Germany |
| n/a |
1904 |
n/a |
Freiwillige Feuerwehr Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, Germany |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Muzeum Pożarnictwa, Warsaw, Poland |
Troetzer (Poland)
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| n/a |
1887 |
n/a |
Komenda Wojewódzka Państwowej Straży Pożarnej, Łodz, Poland |
Tullgarn (Sweden)
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 10 |
1910 |
n/a |
Kanalmuséet, Håverud, Mellerud, Sweden |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Helsingin Pelastuslaitoksen Palomuseo, Helsinki, Finland |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Midsommarkransens Brandstation, Sweden |
Waterous (Canada/USA)
| Serial No. |
Year |
Size/Type |
Owner/Location |
| 8 |
1888 |
n/a |
Pope County Museum, Glenwood, Minnesota, USA |
| 11 |
1888 |
n/a |
Kandiyohi County Historical Society Museum, Willmar, Minnesota, USA |
| 17 |
1889 |
n/a |
Barnesville Fire Hall, Barnesville, Minnesota, USA |
| 28 |
1890 |
n/a |
Jordan Fire Dept, Jordan, Minnesota, USA |
| 62 |
1894 |
No.2 |
Firefighters Hall and Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| 65 |
1893 |
n/a |
Ellsworth Fire Dept, Ellsworth, Wisconsin, USA |
| 74 |
1895 |
No.2 |
Griggs County Museum, Cooperstown, North Dakota, USA |
| 93 |
1898 |
No.2 |
Pine City Fire Dept, Pine City, Minnesota, USA |
| n/a |
1899 |
2nd size |
Victoria Fire Dept, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
| n/a |
1900 |
1st size |
Dawson City Fire Dept, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada |
| n/a |
1901 |
3rd size |
Reliance Fire Museum, Estes Park, Colorado, USA |
| n/a |
1912 |
2nd size |
Vintage Fire Museum, New Albany, Indiana, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, California, USA |
| n/a (1) |
n/a |
n/a |
Sauder Village, Archbold, Ohio, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Kiel Fire Dept, Kiel, Wisconsin, USA |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Grand Forks Fire Dept, Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Thunder Bay Historical Museum, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Musée des Pompiers de Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Western Development Museum, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Tercera Compañía de Bomberos, Santiago, Chile |
| n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
Compañía de Bomberos, San Bernardo, Chile |
| (1) Motor-powered pumper fitted with boiler and steam engine. |
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