Few fires can become serious on premises where these appliances are used.
JOHN-SCOTT, Manager.
The Fire-Defence Company.
551, Oxford Street, Corner of Tottenham Court Road.
31st October, 1866.
DRAWINGS & FURTHER DETAILS ARE IN PREPARATION.
THE FIRE DEFENCE COMPANY,
ESTABLISHED TO SUPPLY THE PUBLIC WITH
SCOTT’S
INTERNAL
SYSTEM OF DEFENCE AGAINST FIRE
This System is based on the principle that private endeavour should precede public help, which at once suggests that the Internal ought to be the System proper, the External its supplement. The latter has obviously these inherent defects:—
1—Its appliances are necessarily outside the house in which the fire occurs; 2—They are very often remote from it; 3—They are so cumbrous and complex as to require a staff of strong well-trained men to work them.
Ours, on the contrary—1—Are Internal and always on the spot; 2—the most important of them are self-acting; 3—The whole are so simple and manageable that the most ordinary person may make effective use of them. We therefore supply exactly what is wanting.
How pressing the want is as regards life will be known to all who have not forgotten the many fatal fires of the present year—especially that at Swansea, and the equally awful one in Dublin, which together took away a dozen lives, most of them in their prime.