132

Apparatus provided with London Brigade Engine 133

Leather hose 134

Hose couplings 140

Suction pipes 143

Jet pipes, proper shape 145

Fire annihilator 149

WATER SUPPLY.

By pressure, from surface of ground, and by sunk tanks 150

Experiments with jets under a constant pressure 153

Fire plug used in London 155

Canvas cistern and stand-cock used with fire plug 156

Double fire-cock used in the Government Dockyards 158

Double hollow key fire-cock used in the British Museum 159

Supply by Water Companies in London 162

Supplying Fire Engines from fire-cocks, &c. 163

APPENDIX.

Steam Fire Engines, progress in construction 166

Trials before the Jury of the International Exhibition, 1862 168

Trials at the International Competition, London, 1863 173

Steam Fire Engines in use by Metropolitan Brigade, May, 1866 181

Act of Parliament for Metropolitan Fire Brigade 182

Establishment of Metropolitan Fire Brigade 197

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Portrait of Mr. Braidwood on steel by Jeens,
from a photograph by Williams Frontispiece.

Longitudinal section of Brigade Fire Engine 124

Transverse section of ditto 125

Old coupling for hose 140

New ditto, ditto 141

Branch and jet pipe 145

Opening in sunk tank for suction pipe 151

Fire plug used in London 155

Fire plug with canvas cistern 156

Fire plug with stand-cock 157

Single fire-cock 158