16 man Horse Drawn Hand Pump

RS Dennis B106 DET

Appliance

Date

Details

  American la France

1956

Registration MG B320. Engine 22 was acquired in 1989 from Oradell in New Jersey. It is a series 700 Pumper with a 12 cylinder petrol engine.

RS Dennis

 1984

 Registration B106 DET. Perkins diesel 5.8ltr. This appliance saw service with South Yorkshire County Fire Service and was based at Ringinglow Road Fire Station. In 1990 it was transferred to Stocksbridge and finally retired in Feb 1998 and was purchased for the museum by staff at the Midland Bank headquarters, Sheffield.

  Leyland

 1928

Registration CH 7699. 4 cylinder petrol engine. Originally built in 1918 and converted to a fire engine in 1928.

  Leyland TL

1936

Registration ABU 1. Worked out of Croydon during the Blitz, this appliance has a 103ft Metz ladder

Bedford TK

1974

Registration GOT 877 N. Jaguar 4.2 Lt. petrol engine. Saw service in Hampshire Fire Service at the Hamble (Retained) Station. In April 1992 it went to Glaxo research and was finally acquired by the Museum in 1995.

Opel

1964

Registration BO 2651. A Chrysler 2.8ltr petrol engine. A Opel Blitz appliance from Sheffield's 'Twin' city Bochum, in Germany. Used as a Breathing Apparatus tender and personnel carrier.

Commer

1949

Registration EFK 63. 6 cylinder, 4.2 petrol engine. Little is known about the origins of this appliance except that it was bought for the Museum in 1994 for £1.

Haflinger

1968

GEN 507 G. 28BHP 2 cylinder, 400cc petrol engine.A Puch 4WD vehicle built by Liverpool Fire Service to service the narrow streets. Sold to West Riding for use in forests near Sedborough. Bought back by Ryder because it had an early model of winch.

Austin

1942

Registration GLT 683. 3.5ltr, 4 cylinder petrol engine. Originally painted grey and used as a convoy machine during WWII. Then owned by Oxfordshire Fire Service it was painted red but restored to the AFS grey when acquired by the Museum in 1984.

AEC

1969

Registration OET 333 H. 5.2ltr, diesel engine. Bought by Rotherham County Borough Fire Brigade in red and painted yellow by the Brigade Painter. The Home Office then informed the Brigade that it must be red but the painter refused to repaint the machine and so it remained yellow until Rotherham was taken over by South Yorkshire County fire Service in 1974. It was donated (in red) to the Museum in1984. it was the last wheeled escape in S. Yorks.

Shand Mason

1882

Horse drawn, Shand Mason Steamer.

Merryweather

1854

Merryweather Horse drawn 8-a-side hand pump. Used in Sheffield between 1854 and 1869. Purchased from the Isle of Man Heritage museum in 1994

Hadley Simpkin and Lott

1794

The oldest appliance in the Museum, this Hadley, Simpkin and Lott was rescued from a scrap yard in Stoke on Trent and restored by Green Watch at Mosborough Fire station.