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A History of the County of Oxford
… workers, and others including a cow-keeper and a traction-engine driver. Occupants of Buswells Row had similar jobs, and in … by the Earlys. 168 John Early acquired a portable steam engine in 1854 and may have introduced steam-powered looms in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… besides regular payments for maintenance of a fire-engine. 84 The vestry elected collectors of the poor for the … 24 'new buckets'. 306 The town presumably had a fire engine by 1772, when a lease of the bailiffs' house mentioned a 'new erected . . . engine house' probably under the town hall. 307 From the …
A History of the County of Essex
… chairman retained limited powers. 78 PUBLIC SERVICES. An engine which may have been a parish fire engine attended a fire in 1774. 79 In 1904 the urban district …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the local mining industry: c. 1730 an atmospheric pumping engine was installed at Wombridge, and by the time of his … Richard Hartshorne had installed a Coalbrookdale pumping engine at Wombridge c. 1730, it was only in the late 18th and … known as the Wombridge Co., owned the 'Wombridge water engine', and William Reynolds the 'Bank water engine' at …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… boxes' containing hoses, etc., in 1916; the nearest fire engine was then at Wellington. 45 After the Second World War …
A History of the County of Essex
… serves the greater part of Woodford. 126 A fire-engine was purchased about 1820 and kept at the workhouse. …