Stockton’s first motor fire engine Thomas can be seen here at the rear of Pumphries Sugar Mills in Thornaby, pumping out water after the area was flooded c1913.
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Stockton’s first motor fire engine Thomas can be seen here at the rear of Pumphries Sugar Mills in Thornaby, pumping out water after the area was flooded c1913.
I wonder if this was a ‘Merryweather Fire Engine’? My ancestor, Moses, (b. 1793 Welbury, North Yorkshire) was apprenticed to a London engineer and went on to develop and own the company. His fire engines were used world wide. Moses’ brother, William, moved to Hartlepool and he, and his son Joseph Benjamin Lister Merryweather, became ship owners.