Re: Questions/stirrup pumps
Tom Holloway (xuegx@CSV.WARWICK.AC.UK)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 20:35:36 +0000
Hello Wilson Stuart and Arthur Pay (and all you others
out there looking over our shoulders...).
Arthur said....
> Fire parties were issued with buckets of water and stirrup pumps, which were
> like large bicycle pumps with which to squirt water at incipient fires. One
> man would stand at the bucket and pump like mad, whilst another, at the
> other end of a thirty foot hose would lie close to the floor, in order not
> to breathe smoke, and spray the fire and surroundings with water. It was
Mary Richardson was an Air Raid Warden in Coventry during
the war and there is a picture of her and her brother
practicing putting out an incendiary with a stirrup pump
if you look at www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/chatback/~maryr1.html
That's Mary pumping, and Cyril is flat on the floor in the
approved position.
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