Steam fire engine at floods, Grangemouth

Maker
John Peat Munn
Production date
Sep 1927
 Description
View of the steam powered fire pump belching smoke from a wide chimney and multiple pipes leading from it as it pumps out flood waters. Some schoolboys with their books and someone riding Kerr's (?) delivery bicycle have stopped to watch.
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Object detail

Department
Photo
Collection
Munn Photographic Collection/Family & Personal Papers Group
Maker
Production date
Sep 1927
Subject person
Subject place
Institution Pl/Grangemouth/Grangemouth area
Subject notes
Grangemouth Town Council purchased a pump in 1902. The fire under the pump boiler was lit on leaving the fire station and within 7 minutes there was sufficient pressure to power the pump. The engine was drawn at speed by two horses, and with the pump belching smoke, it was a remarkable sight. After the First World War the pump was towed by a lorry. A motorised fire engine replaced it in 1928.
Accession number
P14396

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