From Our Berlin Correspondent.
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Berlin's fire-extinguishing plant and arrangements are now reckoned amongst the "sights " of the metropolis, displays being usually organized
by the go-ahead chief of the fire brigade for the entertainment and edification of distinguished strangers. A pardonable pride in excellent arrangements may possibly furnish the ground for these displays before foreign visitors, but there can be no doubt that the home fire-plant firms get advertisement by them.
The Thin End of the Wedge: The Posen Fire-Brigade's Petrol Tricycle.
on the growing tendency in Germany to replace horsed vehicles by automobiles for fire-extinguish in operations, I have already commented on several occasions. As a rule, the electric type is preferred to the petroldriven class, and for reasons which I have no need to repeat here. Instances, however. of German brigades adopting petrol-driven tricycles, or, indeed, of any kind of tricycle at all are exceedingly rare. And on this
ground a photograph of Posen's rolling stock may be of interest, showing, as it does; how the thin end of the automobile wedge, in the shape of a motor
tricycle with a fore-carriage, has found an opening. The tricycle here depicted has. in a modest way, given such satisfaction that the captain recommends the acquisition of a second for delivery this year. The fore-carriage, besides carrying a fireman, carries also a hose-reel with hydrant attechnic/it, and a box for tackle.
Fine Service at a Karlsruhe Fire.
According to the "Badisebe Presse," a petrol fire-engine on trial by the Karlsruhe Corporation rendered grand service at a large lire in the southern quarter of the city, which burnt to a heap of ruins the furniture factory owned by Messrs. Billing and Zoller, and threw some 200 hands out of employment. This fire-engine, I find, is on a Gaggenau chassis, the engine of which develops 40 h.p., and is connected up with a Metz centrifugal pump. The engine was supposed to render first aid only, yet it worked uninterruptedly for six hours, hurling water, under a seven-atmosphere pressure, from four nozzles on the flames.