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NORTHERN LIBERTY

STEAM FIRE ENGINE, No. 8.

HOUSE ON SALEM ST.

This engine was built by Messrs. Jucket & Freeman, Hampden street, Bustua, Mass.

Put into service April 26, 1869.

It is a double-reciprocating vertical engine, 7-inch steam cylinders, 8-inch stroke, with 44-inch pumps, so constructed as to work double or single. The weight of this engine, as drawn to fires, is 7,200 lbs.

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Joseph D. Brown, in place of Albert Vilno, honorably discharged.

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MAVERICK

STEAM FIRE ENGINE, No. 9.

HOUSE ON PARIS STREET, EAST BOSTON.

This engine was built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, at Manchester, New Hampshire. Put into service December 26, 1859.

The pump is driven by two vertical reciprocating steam cylinders, 74-inch diameter, and 9-inch stroke, which are connected directly with the shaft of the pump.

The pump is a rotary, and is the most generally approved one of that description known to the public. At a fair working speed, it will discharge 600 gallons of water per minute.

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The weight of this engine, with the hose-carriage and 300 feet of 24-inch hose, as drawn to fires, is 9,740 pounds.

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