. Public works . satisfaction of Captain David This machine was made bythe Rowe Motor Mfg. Co., Downing-ton, Pa. The apparatus is equippedwith a 60-gallon chemical engine andwill hold 800 feet of 2i/ inch hose. Thespeed of the machine is 25 miles anhour. The engine is four-cylinder, vertical,water-cooled. The crank shaft is madeof specially heat-treated steel. Thecrank case consists of a single alumi-num casting as an upper half. Lubrica-tion is by means of a gear pump. The Three-Wheel Cycle-Chemical. The motor-cycle is beginning to bedeveloped as a fire-fighting machine
. Public works . satisfaction of Captain David This machine was made bythe Rowe Motor Mfg. Co., Downing-ton, Pa. The apparatus is equippedwith a 60-gallon chemical engine andwill hold 800 feet of 2i/ inch hose. Thespeed of the machine is 25 miles anhour. The engine is four-cylinder, vertical,water-cooled. The crank shaft is madeof specially heat-treated steel. Thecrank case consists of a single alumi-num casting as an upper half. Lubrica-tion is by means of a gear pump. The Three-Wheel Cycle-Chemical. The motor-cycle is beginning to bedeveloped as a fire-fighting machineand a new step in the development is athree-wheel cycle equipped as a com-plete chemical apparatus. The Day-ton machine illustrated here has justIjeen put on the market by the DavisSewing Machine Co., Dayton, O. It isbuilt for two men and carries a chem-ical tank, ladders, two Boyd hard ex-tinguishers, a hose box and hoseequipped with nozzle and Dietz lan-terns. The machine is equipped withDavton .\irless i-\ll:i.\-\T|\ (VEXTXOR CITY. X. J.) ignition is Bosch dual magneto and thecarburetor of the Reyfield automatictype. Cooling is accomplished bymeans of a centrifugal pump directlycoupled to the engine gears whichforces water through engines to alarge honeycomb radiator. The clutchis of the disc type and the transmis-sion, three speed selective—three for-ward and one reverse. The drive is ofthe worm type. There are two inde-pendent braking systems. The wholedesign is calculated for service anddurabilitv. A TRUSSED LADDER. One of the exhibits at the New Or-leans Convention will be a PirschPatent Trussed Ladder. This ladder,which is illustrated in the accompany-ing cut, has been in extensive use inmany fire departments. The makersclaim that this ladder can be climbedon either side. The burning of theends, it is claimed, will in no wayweaken the ladder and the constructiontiiakes the apparatus strong and trussed ladder is made by PeterPirsch & Co., Kenosha,
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