Description More complex and imposing than any other vehicle in the British emergency services, the fire engine has a long and interesting history.
The earliest water pumps had been developed by the eighteenth century--basic manual pumps that had to be hauled around by people or horses, and were often only used on fire-insured premises.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries horse-drawn, steam-powered fire engines, and eventually motorized fire engines, came to revolutionize f.
Shire Publications Fire engines, paperback/eddie baker
