Loan To Museum
<From Our Own Reporter) TIMARU, Aug. 18. The Timaru Fire Board’s Merryweather steam fire engine will be lent to the Ferrymead Park and Museum of Science and Industry. Almost a century old, the engine is one of four of its type in the country. The board said that the engine should be returned to Timaru whenever required and that the cost of its transport should be paid by the museum.
The engine weighs two tons. It has iron wheels and a double-acting piston pump. The board acquired the engine from the works of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company, Ltd, at Smithfield about 12 years ago. The engine had originally been used as a fire-fighting appliance at the works but for several years it had been used as a water pump.
It is at present at Waimate, where it is maintained by a member of the town’s volunteer fire brigade, Mr W. B. Hardwicke.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31761, 19 August 1968, Page 1
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156Loan To Museum Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31761, 19 August 1968, Page 1
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