Equipment Collection (#50)

LCC-LFB Clerkenwell Emergency Tender
Clerkenwells emergency tender with its fire crew in Proto breathing apparatus. Clerkenwell fire station was built in 1870

LCC-LFB Clerkenwells emergency tender
Emergency tender belonging to Clerkenwell fire station. The ET was primarily a means of providing firefighters with breathing apparatus and illumination at incidents

Barnet Fire Brigade with appliance
Barnet Fire Brigade posing with an appliance

An example of a horsed steam pump of the London Fire Brigade

Wembley Fire Brigade motorised pump-escape and crew. Wembley split from Harrow in 1894, formed its own Urban District Council and established Wembley Fire Brigade

LCC-LFB Merryweather Hatfield fire engine
An LFB firefighting crew on a motorised steam pump. The motorised age came to the London Fire Brigade at Southwark in September 1909

Engine room of LFB fireboat Massey Shaw
London fireboat engineers at work in the engine room of the Massey Shaw. Showing the Port and Starboard engines and various engine and pressure gauges behind the two firefighters

Engine room of London Fire Brigade fireboat
London firefighter engineers at work in the engine room of a fireboat

MBW-MFB-London Fire Brigade museum artefact
MFB rolled leather fire hose with screw couplings. Copper rivets were introduced in around 1819. This type of hose was phased out in the late 1800s

Manually pulled and operated Insurance Company engine
A manually pulled and operated Insurance Company fire engine

Diagram of a fire brigade respirator

LCC- MFB horse drawn steamer at Westminster
A steamer and crew at Westminster fire station, Francis Street, Victoria, during the latter years of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (it was renamed the London Fire Brigade in 1904)

Self-propelled fire engine at LCC-LFB Southwark HQ
The Hatfield motor pump was the first petrol driven engine appliance in which the engine was used to operate the fire pump

LCC-LFB fire engine drills at Southwark HQ
The Metropolitan Fire Brigade was renamed the London Fire Brigade in 1904, with much of its former equipment still in regular use. Self-propelled fire engines were being introduced by 1904

LCC-MFB petrol driven motor tender
This chain transmission driven first-aid tender carried the first small water tank which operated under pressure of carbon dioxide gas

LCC-LFB rear of a Shand Mason steam fire engine
The working end of the Shand Mason horse drawn steam fire engine, showing the detail of the steam driven fire pump

LCC-LFB fire engine trials at Crystal Palace
The Merryweather Hatfield pump was first developed by Merryweather of Greenwich in the late 1890s. By 1916 the decision was taken to move totally to motorised fire engines

Shand Mason Bristol motor steam fire engine
This Shand Mason motor steam fire engine with independent pumping and propelling engines was developed later than Merryweathers Fire King self-propelled steam engine

LCC London Fire Brigade Dennis motorised pump
A Dennis pump from No 1 station Southwark, which was the headquarters station of the London Fire Brigade, based at Southwark Bridge Road SE1

LCC-LFB Merryweather chain-driven Hatfield pump
A chain-driven Hatfield type pump. Note the chain drive to the rear wheel axle. This was one of four such pumps that the Brigade purchased from Merryweather of Greenwich

LCC-LFB Daylight Rubber Co fire, Farringdon Road
A major fire at the Daylight Rubber Co warehouse in Farringdon Road required many pumps and a turntable ladder to quell the blaze, involving rubber goods

A fire damaged television set
The aftermath of a fire in a television set at 98 Philbeach Gardens, London SW5

LCC-LFB 100ft mechanical turntable ladder (TL)
An example of the all steel turntable ladder which was first introduced into the London Fire Brigade in the 1930s. It required a pump to be in attendance to supply water to its monitor

LCC-LFB Control Room at Lambeth HQ SE1
Brigade control was located in the basement of the Headquarters building. A view of the card index rotary drums that recorded the address of every London thoroughfare

London Fire Brigade, mobile communications van, WW2
London Fire Brigade, mobile communications van

Mobile Communications Van, WW2
London Fire Brigade, mobile communications van

NFS (Salvage Corps) protective sheets, WW2
Salvage sheets put in place by NFS Salvage Corps workers protect goods and equipment from water damage

NFS (Salvage Corps) working at a fire, with salvage sheets protecting goods and equipment from water damage

NFS firefighters and salvage corps working at a fire
Firefighters from Clerkenwell and the NFS Salvage Corps at work at a warehouse fire. The fire engines from right to left are; a towing unit

NFS (London) breathing apparatus training, WW2
NFS firefighters, with instructor, demonstrating a compressed air breathing apparatus set and the Proto oxygen breathing apparatus sets

MFB at Southwark HQ and scaling ladders
A ladder cart at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade HQ at Southwark SE1. Scaling ladders were separate interlocking ladders which when placed together

NFS (London Region) Fire Force 34 Emergency Tender, WW2
An example of an NFS emergency tender (ET), its crew and some of the specialist cutting equipment it carried. This ET was in Fire Force district 34

Head of a turntable ladder (TL) showing the TL monitor and the control handle operated by the firefighter at the top of the ladder

Home Office Incendiary Bomb Test, WW2
Home Office Incendiary Bomb Test -- the bomb sets fire to a house

Franklin. E. Smith hose coupling, WW2
A firefighter demonstrating the strength of a Franklin.E. Smith hose coupling

London (NFS) firefighter in breathing apparatus, WW2
Side view of the Mark IV Proto (oxygen) breathing apparatus set, showing the re-breather bag, mouthpiece, control valves and cooler

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