New Fire-fighting Equipment
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A NEW fire-fighting and rescue device will make its first appearance in this country at the conference of the Institution of Fire Engineers and the Chief Fire Officers' Association which opens in Edinburgh next Monday.
This is the Simon Snorkel. a 65-ft. hydraulically operated elbowed arm mounted on a turntable on a carrying vehicle. The unit is capable of a complete range of vertical, horizontal and rotary movements, A cage at the end of the arm -carries the monitor which is supplied through water pipes fixed to the arm. Lifting capacity is 1,000 lb. and the Snorkel will reach maximum working height in 50 seconds.
All movements are governed by simple hand controls in the cage and duplicate controls are provided on the turntable for operation from ground level if required.
Snorkel fire-fighting units are already in operation in the U.S.A. and are being made in the U.K. by Simon Engineering Dudley, Ltd., Dudley. Worcs.
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