Extinguisher, fire
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- OBJECT TYPE
- Hand pulled/calcium chloride
- DATE
- 1940–1949
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1967.0195.001
- MANUFACTURER
- LaFrance Fire Engine & Foamite Ltd.
- MODEL
- Allweather DA
- LOCATION
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Metal & wood.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 229.0 cm
- Width
- 99.0 cm
- Height
- 129.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Fire Fighting
- Category
- Extinguishers
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Lafrance
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Toronto
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- This make and type of chemical extinguisher used in c. 1928 +.
- Canada
-
Type of chemical extinguisher made and used in Canada, for fire fighters in villages & cities, at airports, factories, in lumberyards, etc. Canadian subsidiary - LaFrance Fire Engine & Foamite Ltd. - Est'd in Toronto in 1915. - Function
-
Used to suppress and extinguish fire. - Technical
-
Soda-acid chemical extinguishers developed in c. 1860s. By 1920s, the effectiveness of these extinguishers was questioned: other varieties of chemical extinguishers had been developed, and gained in popularity. Allweather model still offered in 1944 LaFrance catalogue [Ref. 1] - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- N/A
- Missing
- Unknown.
- Finish
- Unknown
- Decoration
- N/A
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