Donor Name:Bert Gibbons
Date: 1851
Associated Place: Clinton, ON
Item #: M953.0057.001

Fire pump operated by tow or more men.   Small but good at fighting fires with four small wooed wheels and two nozzles.  The thick, large hose is put in water in a trough or tank , the pumps are worked and the water is pushed in through the wide hose and out the smaller hose through the nozzle.  The more pumping; the higher the pressure.

• Used around 1851 in Clinton