Pumping Records
In answer to a correspondent’s request for information on records of other pumpers throughout the country the following figures have been received.
Charles S. Walker sent in information concerning a 750-gallon pumper in Rochester, N. Y., which pumped continuously for 133 hours. The remarkable thing about this record was the fact that the pumper kept three lines supplied at 200 psi in below zero weather. When shut down, the entire pump and pressure dome was blanketed with a foot of ice. This engine was an Ahrens-Fox piston type of pumper.
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