Steam fire engine - Poole Museum
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Steam fire engine - Poole Museum
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 22 Apr 2017
An 1892 Shand Mason horse-drawn steam fire engine. This is the business end and consists of a three cylinder, simple expansion, Scotch crank pumping engine with slide valves. I suddenly realised that although I had photographed it over a year ago I had yet to post it on Geograph.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.712691
Longitude
-1.988759