Vintage 1940s brass garden or fire bucket pump

Vintage 1940s possibly earlier garden or fire bucket brass pump. This amazing item has a lovely worn oak handle and great patina, very collectible and rare item. You could take pump etc away from rubber piping, polish it and have as a lovely display piece.

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Some age related wear

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108 cm fully extended 67 cm closed

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The history of hand fire pumps includes the development of the first fire pump, the design of early fire pumps, and the evolution of fire engines:

First fire pump

The first fire pump was developed in the third century BC by Ctesibius, a Greek citizen of Alexandria.

Early fire pumps

In the 1700s, several people designed fire pumps, including:

Richard Newsham: An English inventor who designed a fire-fighting water pump in 1712. Newsham's pump was an open trough with a hand-powered pump on wheels.