Waterous Fire Engine - Western Development Museum - Saskatoon, SK
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The Western Development Museum in Saskatoon is a place all old gearheads just have to visit when in the vicinity. They have dozens of tractors and implements, and a really cool steam powered fire engine.
Waymark Code: WMG7Q3
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Date Posted: 01/25/2013
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This steam powered pumper was built in Brantford, Ontario by the Waterous Engine Works Co. Ltd., probably before the 1890s. Waterous built stationary steam engines, steam traction engines and steam fire engines. This engine was essentially the same as that used in their "Champion" Agricultural engine.
When the internal combustion engine displaced the steam engine, Waterous stopped making engines but continued to produce fire engines. They became one of the world's premier fire fighting equipment manufacturers, and remain so today.
From the archives of Ontario:
The Waterous Engine Works Company was a Brantford, Ontario business, incorporated in 1879, which specialized in the construction of fire engines.
Charles Horatio Waterous was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1814, was educated at local schools, and apprenticed with Thomas Davenport, a Brandon, Vermont blacksmith. During the Rebellion of 1837, Waterous served as chief engineer on the steamer Gov. Mansy which the U.S. government employed to prevent American sympathizers of the Rebellion from invading Canada. From 1839 to 1848, Waterous worked in various machine shops and foundries in New York, Ohio and Vermont and, at one of these shops, produced an early electrically powered motor.
In 1848, Waterous joined with P.C. Van Brocklin in Brantford, Ontario and took charge of a foundry and machine shop with the view of establishing the manufacturing of sawmills and steam engines. In 1855, Van Brocklin sold his portion of the business interest to Waterous and other partners. In 1879, Waterous purchased all remaining stock and the company was incorporated as the Waterous Engine Works Company.
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