THE LOST BRIGADE
MANY A SLIP ’TWIXT CLUTCH AND GRIP
“The best-laid plans o’ mice and men gang aft agley.” This could well have been applied to the spectacular first official turn-out of the Brooklyn branch of the Fire Brigade, which took place in the presence of the Mayor, Ministers .of the Crown, and the members of the Fire Board yesterday. When the alarm was given the engine dashed out of the station, and went whirring down the main street, whilst the official party stood waiting for its return all expectant of the water-shooting display that was to be given. After a time the members of ‘ the party began to ask one another where the brigade had gone to. They looked around, until one saw the scarlet engine doing its best to climb the Brooklyn Road from Happy Valley. It was a case of three steps forward and two back, and anxious eyes watched the spick-and-span turn out in travail, until suddenly the engine took heart of grace, picked up, and the vehicle came back to the station in good style. It was afterwards learned that the trouble on the grade was edused through a slipping clutch (which is useless for fire prevention purposes). .
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 240, 11 July 1928, Page 10
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204THE LOST BRIGADE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 240, 11 July 1928, Page 10
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