Superintendent—Stephen English, Esq., Guildhall
Inspectors—William Barnard and John Hayhow.
Reserve—John Flaxman and James Melvin.
This establishment was reorganised in November, 1854, and placed under the management of the Police.
Two Fire Engines are kept perfectly ready to act on any emergency in town or country. The engines are of the first class, constructed upon the most approved scientific principles, and adapted for rapid travelling into the country.
A Fire Engine upon a new principle has lately been added to the establishment, at a cost of four hundred guineas. It has two 6-in. and two 7-in. cylinders, each worked at an 8-in. stroke, and the machinery so arranged that by simply moving a lever it can be worked as a 6-in. engine, or as a 7-in. engine, or the two can be worked together, and is then more powerful than a 9-in. engine, and throws an inch jet of water 120 feet high, and smaller jets proportionally higher. The advantage of this arrangement being three sizes of Fire Engines to suit the available quantity of water, or number of men. The suction has an air-vessel or reservoir, as in the American engines, a new feature in the construction of engines in this country.
Norwich Equitable Fire Brigade.
Superintendent—Stephen English, Esq., Guildhall.
Inspectors—William Curtis and John Ireland.
This establishment was organised in January, 1855, and placed under the management of the Police.