Stirrup pump

A stirrup pump is a portable reciprocating water pump used to extinguish or control small fires.^[1] It is operated by hand. The operator places a foot on a stirrup-like bracket at the bottom of the pump to hold the pump steady, the bottom of the suction cylinder is placed inside a bucket of water.^[2]

Fireguard on the roof of a building London 1941

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Topaz Utah 1946

Engraving from the mid-17th Century fire museum in Salem at Lake Constance, Germany

Farm and Garden Annual A Currie & Co, Milwaukee, Wis.