Story: Fires and fire services
Motorised fire engines were an important advance in firefighting, as they enabled brigades to get to fires much more quickly. Here, members of the Whanganui fire brigade pose with their Merryweather fire engine (right) and a modified Model T Ford, in 1919.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, F. J. Denton Collection
Reference: 1/1-020869; F
Photograph by Frank J. Denton
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
