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Hunneman's Amazing Fire Engines: Paul Revere's Apprentice Changed Firefighting in Colonial America (Fire Service History Series)

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Endeavoring to discover as many Hunneman fire engines still in existence as possible, whether in museums or rotting and rusting away in obscure barns, Ed Tufts has traveled across the United States and Canada. Of the 745 Hunneman engines manufactured from 1792-1883, he has located and photographed 165 of them!

During the heyday of hand-fire engines in Colonial America, the Hunneman was king, acknowledged as the finest engine money could buy. This book recounts the fascinating history of Paul Revere's apprentice, George C. Hunneman, and his anazing fire engines.

I was astonished to discover that there are Hunneman families in the USA, and especially astonished to discover that Paul Revere had a good raider. The book isn't only telling about Hunneman's firefighting engines, but also a bit about the family. That's nice for us here in the Netherlands!

I sought for family of my wife (Anneke Hunneman). Surfing from the Netherlands I cam in ... and found a book about one of her distant grandfathers fathers family .... And it was a nice story about his firefighting, I only knew about Revere and nothing about Hunneman's firefighting. Funny that Anneke''s brother Jan also was a firefighter!