MOTOR PUMPING PLANT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3671, 22 July 1924, Page 7

MOTOR PUMPING PLANT.

DUNEDIN FIRE BOARD’S VENTURE. The Dunedin Fire Board has decided on the purchase of a large motor fire engine which will be a fully composite unit in itself. It- will be provided with all the usual carrying capacity of a fire engine, capable of acting either as a first-aid machine, in that the small first-aid pump will be a portion of the equipment, but the larger equipment of a centrifugal lifting pump will also be carried, thus providing the two extremes of fire fighting on th<j one motor. This is a motor lire appliance with a six-cylinder engine, the bore and stroke being sjin by 6;jin, which develops 99 b.h.p. at 1000 revolutions per minute. The large pump is of the well-known rees roturbo twin impeller multi-stage type, and is equal t-o the best production of such plant. The pump is designed to deliver 690 gallons per minute at- 1201 b pressure per square inch; with a lift of 10 feet: to give a maximum pressure of 1601 b per sejua.ro inch; to give a maximum lift of 27 feet measured to the cutlet of the pump; to deliver 518 gallons per minute at 1601 b pressure : and to give a maximum output of 925 gallons per minute without lift at 80ib pressure per square inch. At yesterday’s meeting of the board the tender of Messrs Ley land. Lid. (London), for the engine was accepted.