. Water & sewage works . VfOTOR J?IRE A PPARATUS t?j By H. W. PERRY, New York City CHIEFS chemical wagon, Kissel-Kar. #T \\ITHIX tlic next ten years over $80,000,000 zvill be inzested in mo-tor-driven fire apparatus. The majority of this will be spent ivithin fiveyears. During the last eighteen months the number of pieces of motor ap-paratus has increased from 600 to over 2,000. There are nozv in use 20,000pieces of apparatus drazvn by horses. Pittsburg is motorizing itsfire department and zvill effect a ^o7c profit on the transaction. The prop-erty loss in Springfield, Mass., z
. Water & sewage works . VfOTOR J?IRE A PPARATUS t?j By H. W. PERRY, New York City CHIEFS chemical wagon, Kissel-Kar. #T \\ITHIX tlic next ten years over $80,000,000 zvill be inzested in mo-tor-driven fire apparatus. The majority of this will be spent ivithin fiveyears. During the last eighteen months the number of pieces of motor ap-paratus has increased from 600 to over 2,000. There are nozv in use 20,000pieces of apparatus drazvn by horses. Pittsburg is motorizing itsfire department and zvill effect a ^o7c profit on the transaction. The prop-erty loss in Springfield, Mass., zvas $369,000 less in igi2 than in 1907. Thenumber of motcfrs in use between these dates was increased by 19. Isnt itself-evident that motors will eventually supplant fire horses in the U. Perry has made an intimate study of this question, upon which he pre-sents interesting facts in this article. FIRE departments of a majority ofcities in the United States willbe completely motorized five yearshence. Many have sto
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