Fire engine
Category
Models
Date
1890
Materials
Brass, Paint, Rubber
Measurements
245 x 130 mm; 340 mm (Length)
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1338937
Summary
Model of a fire engine with brass water tank with taps and valves, brass pump. Metal body painted red with lettering: 'L.C.C Fire Brigade'. Metal rail around driving position, footrest for driver. Top lifts off body. Rubber hose (broken). Loose ladder hooked onto body. Metal wheels with brass tyres. No shafts. '1890'. In notebook no.5, page 32 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'Nursery no.25 Fire Engine painted red, lettered in gold, with brass boiler, fly-wheel, air-chamber pump, delivery hose. Cylinder 1½" x 52'. Includes sketch with dimensions.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
L.C.C Fire Brigade
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 32