ones have
As well as several foreign or
already been supplied by
May
be
tra
there
rather limited sale of that
Size of Engine.
In the report made by alr Rennie to In RJ Mae Donnell
Sor that Gentleman, although he sees a difficulty as regars moving
the large Engine The Praya
he does peat importance to it as he considers it would be of good service" under
over the Mand Road called)
does not attatch
other Arcumst
nstances
any
The original idea of Sending ont a large stam fire Engine to Amphony was,
that it could stand Close to the sea Vetsupply water to
a Smaller
one
Should a fire
Oceur
at too great
a distance from the sea to permit of the Engines being worked direct & to be able to four- large quantity of water on
C
A
fires which,
the most valuable
portion of the Town :- that portion
near to the sea.
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Iram a view of the plan
of Hong Kong
and à Conversation
we have had with M Bird the
Apist : Surveyor we are Thongly of opinion that a large Engine is desirable : – for these reasons.
The Town being short of water
for fire Service #being placed on a hill it is difficult for any Engine Standing by the sea to pump water into the Auke of the Town Say 1500 feet 4 then deliver it with force direct
on the fire
on account of the great pressure thrown on the ttoses near that Engine, the better
way
would be
for one Engine stationed as the sea
to pump water up to an Standing
Engine near the fire __ if the larger
Engine is used for
this
purpose it
will