Fire Cart/Apparatus

Donor Name:Village of Crediton
Date: 1856
Associated Place: Crediton, ON
Item #: M953.0056.001

Horse-drawn fire fighting pump built in 1856.  It is a 20-30 man power fire hose pump.  There are five host fittings on top and three different types of nozzles (straight hard spray, medium wide spray and wide angle spray).  Also on top are two oil burning lanterns.  The maker of this machine is "Cowing and Co. builders, Seneca Falls, NY."