Extinguisher Collection

Advertising publicity leaflet, Warners Aquajects, firefighting equipment, fire extinguishers Date: 1881

Aristocratic lamp extinguishers

Timothy Marshals lock and candle extinguishers
Marquis of Worcester Timothy Marshals secret escutcheon for a lock, and self-acting candle extinguishers including John Isaac Hawkins. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J

Machine gun carrier with Vickers gun, WW1
Machine gun carrier no. 2 with a Vickers machine gun, belonging to the 2nd Battalion Cheshire Regiment, during the First World War. Seen here on a parade ground. Date: 1914-1918

An Excellent Royal Extinguisher. Cartoon of Richard, 1st Marquess Wellesley, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, extinguishing the Orange Club with the Kings (George IV) giant candle snuffer

Silbers patent burners with wicks, Plate 227
Silbers patent petroleum, paraffin or kerosene burners with circular and flat wicks, Plate 227. Date: circa 1880s

China Candlesticks, Plate 66
China Candlesticks in a range of styles, Plate 66. Date: circa 1880s

Advert for Harden hand granade fire extinguisher 1886
Put out the fire before it gets a good hold, and thus save life and property. Blue glass globe bottle filled with chemical fluid and when broken over or into the flame extinguishes fire instantly

Advert for Harness ready fire-extinguisher 1886
Sold by chemists and ironmongers everywhere, the most reliable and efficient fire-extinguisher. 1886

Zeppelin engine gondola
A scene in the rear gondola of a German Zeppelin airship. In the centre, two engineers are tending the powerful Maibach motors

Firefighter training with foam extinguisher
Firefighter training with a foam extinguisher, 18 April 1956. Date: 1956

Firefighters training with foam extinguisher
Two firefighters training with a foam extinguisher. Date: circa 1950s

Statue of Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw
Bronze statue of Captain Sir Eyre Massey Shaw (1828-1908) about 18 inches high, by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. The statue is kept in the dining room of the Massey Shaw Suite

LFB firefighters extinguishing oil can fire
Two LFB firefighters extinguishing an oil can fire

Fire prevention training for student nurses
Fire prevention training for a class of student nurses. A sub-officer of the fire prevention branch demonstrates the operation of a carbon dioxide extinguisher

RAF fire-fighting equipment by G. H. Davis
Fire-fighting in aircraft: the RAFs new automatic equipment. An aviation danger overcome: the Graviner system of preventing fire when an aircraft crashes. Date: 1939

LCC-LFB motorised pump-escape at Greenwich
LCC-London Fire Brigade motorised pump-escape at Greenwich, SE London. This fire engine also carried an in-built 60 gallon chemical extinguisher which fed through a hosereel

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Fish & Chip shop, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Behind the counter view of Blooms Fish & Chip shop at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. circa 1966

Metropolitan Police communications room, London
View of a Metropolitan Police communications room, showing three officers sitting at desks on the right. There are several push button telephones

Well, I m Blowed
The Heath Robinson Mark VII Extra Special Pneumatic Candle Flame Extinguisher, specially devised for blowing out the candle when the dressing table is a long way from the bed

Trial of the Pyroleter Fire Extinguisher, River Thames, 18
Engraving showing the trial of a fire extinguisher designed for boats, called a Pyroleter, on board a barge in the River Thames at Greenhithe, 1875

Water pump
An advertisement from 1893 for Marryweathers hand fire-engines, a device which doubles up as both a fire extinguisher and plant watering machine

Car Fire Extinguisher
Carry an efficient fire extinguisher readily accessible

The Royal Extinguisher or Gulliver Putting out the Patriots of Lilliput !!!

Fire-Fighting Equipment
Ideal first-aid fire appliances, originally supplied by Merryweathers to The Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society

Handheld Extinguisher
A hand fire suds machine being used to smother burning liquids with a semi-fluid substance containing an inert gas

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