Historic Engines

[Invicta]

Anyone got photos of historic engines?

We used to live in Faversham and this is their historic fire engine

 

[Genevanpreacher]

Edited November 5, 2015 by Genevanpreacher

[Rosie]

what a blessing these are

[No Nicolaitans]

Are you just wanting photos of old fire engines? Here's a historic steam engine on display in my hometown...but it's not an old fire engine. It's an old portable boiler/steam engine that was built in the 1800s.

[Invicta]

This is the Invicta supposed to first passenger train loco. Ran from Whitstable to Canterbury.  It was called the Crab and Winkle line.  It is no longer a railway track but a cycle path and is now called the Crab and Winkle Way.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invicta_(locomotive)

Edited November 6, 2015 by Invicta

[Genevanpreacher]

My brain was taking this as Fire engines.

Sorry.

[Invicta]

I started with a fire engine but I did not intend it to be just fire engine. Any farm machinery, household equipment used in these days.  

[Invicta]

I started this thread with an old Faversham fire engine.  I have just found another picture from the same town.

I don't know when it was taken but judging by the decorations on the cart. it seems to be at some celebration, perhaps the end of WW1 or that Boar War

[Rosie]

this brings back memories of the one in my childhood

[Invicta]

I nicked that photo from a facebook group  "Memories of Faversham and surrounding villages"  Several people said it was made of wood and stored in a barn in their childhood and they used to play on it, but no one knows what happened to it.

There is at least one house near here that has an old Sun Insurance Plate on it,

 

 It seems if your house was insured they put their plate on your wall as they operated their own fire crews who only attended houses that were insured with them.  I did a search for them and came across the following article describing the rise of fire insurance and fire services after the great fire of London in 1666.  

http://www.moleseyhistory.co.uk/books/surrey/fireplaques/index.html

The article is by a local history society in the county of Surrey.