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Firemen’s Arch Of Ladders

The Metropolitan Fire Brigade intends to take part in the welcome to the Duke and Duchess, and it is planned that with their equipment the men shall form a novel arch under which the Royal procession will pass. This will be carried out with the ladders, which, mounted on their trollies, will be extended to form the two wings of the arch of welcome. With the firemen at their posts on the vehicles, this will form an effective picture, which should be all the more striking because of its novel formation.

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The Telegraph, 5 April 1927

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Fire-Hose Comedy.

An unrehearsed incident accompanied the naming ceremony of a new motor fire engine in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, recently.

The new engine, which replaces a manual fire-engine which had been in use for the last 76 years was named “Alert” by the wife of the chairman of the parish council.

During the subsequent display by the brigade, when one of the firemen was holding the hose the water was unexpectedly turned on. Another fireman standing close by was bowled over and had his helmet sent flying by the force of the water.

In his anxiety to save his colleague further discomfiture the first fireman swung the nozzle round, with the result that the stream caught a group of spectators, who hastily scattered, but not before many had been knocked over and drenched.

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Western Mail, 12 April 1928

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A fire engine is loaned to Innisfail

Co-operation between Fire Station Chief Officers in the North was proved today when Chief Officer Griffiths of the Cairns Brigade consented to loan the Innisfail Brigade one of the Cairns engines.

Cheif Officer A. F. King, of the Innisfail Brigade, stated that he had telephoned Chief Officer Griffiths and enquired whether he had a spare engine to lend Innisfail.

“Cheif Officer Griffiths was most kind,” said Chief Officer King,” and told me that Innisfail could have the loan of their Denis machine until our Denis was repaired.

“This will mean,” added Chief Officer King,” that a lot more time can be spent on our machine to give it a good overhaul.”

Firemen from Innisfail went to Cairns to this morning to collect the Cairns Denis engine.

The motor of the Innisfail Fire Brigade Denis engine was damaged when the machine was proceeding to a

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Hose Laying Fire Engine.

A new British hose-laying fire engine capable of carrying over a mile of 3 1/2 inch rubber lined canvas hose will go to aid Trinidad’s programme of fire service expansion, to cover busy industrial cities, small towns and villages on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean.

The new fire-engine has joined company with other British appliances in the Trinidad Fire Brigade, a 60ft. turntable ladder, a dual-purpose pump and wheeled escape ladder, and a powerful 600 gallon water tender, which carries a rear mounted fire pump, first aid, hose reel, ladder and searchlight.

In the new hose layer, the lengths are stored already coupled, in narrow compartments which form the rear section of the vehicle. Mounted on the roof are monitors for delivering water fed from a turbine pump mounted in the centre of the vehicle.

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Winton Fire Brigade.

New Motor Fire Engine.

Though Winton has not had more than one very serious fire, and that some years ago, it is the first town in Western Queensland to equip its fire brigade with a modern motor fire engine. The engine was housed in the Station of the Rockhampton Fire Brigade ready to be despatched to its destination.

There have, however, been other very serious fires in the west, notably at Longreach and Barcaldine, resulting in the destruction of some thousands of pounds of worth of property, and the Winton Fire Brigade, with such events in mind and ill-equipped as it is at present with an antiquated plant, consisting of only a hand hose cart, decided that nothing but an up-to-date fire engine, fully equipped, would meet requirements in the case of a conflagration in the town.

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The Capricornian, 9 April 1921

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