A POWERFUL FIRE ENGINE.
Capable of shooting :i stream of water nearly twice the height of the 223 ft. towers of Notre Dame Cathedral, a" neu- fire engine, latest acquisition of the Paris fire department, is the most powerful land fire-fighting machine in the world. . . .. At two-thirds of a mile it can, it necessary, pump the water that it hurls in torrents on a blazing building. Only the fireljoats of New York, and London can .surpass the jet thrown by this mighty machine, the force of which is such that two men arc required to" handle the nozzle. The pump itself weighs six and one-half tons.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3360, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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106A POWERFUL FIRE ENGINE. Dunstan Times, Issue 3360, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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