The photos you see here of several of our fire apparatus pieces offer just a glimpse into the tremendous number of engines, pumpers and other apparatus in our collection. Please enjoy the photos below, but to really experience more than 300 years of firefighting, come visit the Museum soon!

	Robert Hicks, Firemen’s Home member and Museum Guide, polishes up a 1924 LaFrance Brockway Torpedo. The Brockway was obtained and fully restored by Mastic Chemical Co.No.1, Inc., Mastic, Long Island, NY, to use during the Bicentennial Celebration in their town. The company had previously owned the same model Brockway Torpedo.
	1928 Ahrens Fox of Westfield Fire Department, Westfield NY, manufactured by Ahrens Fox Company, Cincinnati, OH. Piston pump of 1000-gallon capacity, mounted in front of a 6-cylinder engine. Although this machine was used in Westfield for 30 years and performed constantly, its total mileage was only 2800 miles.
	1916 American LaFrance, 3rd size Combination City Service-Tiller. This Type 33 chain front drive, 4 cylinder, H&L truck was owned by Oyster Bay Fire Co.No.1 of Long Island, NY. Delivered new to Oyster Bay in July 1916, it remained in operation for 40 years until 1956.
	In 1731, NY City ordered two engines from Richard Newsham of Cloths Fair, England. Built in 1725, the Newsham is the first successful and oldest authenticated fire engine in NY State. It was the forerunner in design of the gooseneck style engine, invented in 1810 by James Smith. Donated by NY Exempt Firemen’s Association in 1925.
	Curator Emeritus Dennis Randall shows Museum visitors the highlights of Jefferson Engine No.26, of the old NY Vol. FD. This engine built prior to 1842 was one of the handsomest, best-geared, lightest running and fastest engine of its day. The four panels were painted by W. Hoffman in 1855 on convex surfaces.
	On April 13, 1855, the Sun Fire Co. of Alexandria, Virginia ordered a new fire engine for $2400 from John Rogers, of Baltimore, Maryland. The Sun Engine, while in use during the Civil War, was damaged to the amount of $250. Alexandria decided to sell the apparatus and purchase a new steam engine. The Sun engine was sold June 30, 1887 to the Volunteer Firemen’s Association of NY City for $300.00. It was used as a parade piece until 1925 when it was one of the first of four engines donated to start the American Museum of Firefighting.
	Mfg’d by Jeffers & Co., Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1863, this crane neck, sidestroke, with squirrel tail suction was originally owned by Neptune Engine Co. of Jamaica NY. Hand pulled, and later converted to be horse drawn.
	This hand pulled hose sleigh was built in March 1904 by Frederick Rice, the village blacksmith and charter member of Oriskany Independent Fire and Hose Company, Oriskany, NY and used from 1904 to 1923. The cost to the company was $20.00. The sleigh sat on rollers to facilitate pulling it out of the firehouse onto the snow-covered street.
	1939 Buffalo of Mattydale Fire Dept. No.2, Mattydale N.Y., manufactured until the late 1940’s by Buffalo Fire Appliance Corp. Buffalo, N.Y. Model “Pathfinder” is a 500-gpm triple combination pumper with a Hale pump. Mattydale FD is known for the “Mattydale Lay,” the first pre-connected cross bed hose lay, invented and installed on this engine by Chief Burton L. Eno in 1947-48.
	1878 Steam Engine No.83 of “Francis N. Wilson” Steamer Co.No.5 of Catskill, NY, built by Clapp & Jones Mf’g Co., Hudson NY. This machine, operated by a single but powerful horizontal cylinder, vibrated or “walked” so much that her engineer said, “She was all right so long as we tied her to a tree.” She earned her first merit during a fire near the Catskill National Bank. The engine was placed at the side of the Creek and hose laid up to Main St. The water was played on the rear of the burning building, but the stream pumped by the new steamer was so powerful that it shot clear through the structure, burst the shutters on the front and hurled them across the street!

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