"Hook-and-ladder company" Quotes from Famous Books
... that was engaged in taking pictures of a fire department rushing to a fire. Several pieces of apparatus had passed—an engine, hook-and-ladder company, and the chief; the operator, with his (then) bulky apparatus, large camera, storage batteries, etc., stood right in the centre of the street, facing the stream of engines, hose-wagons, and fire-patrol men. In order ... — Stories of Inventors - The Adventures Of Inventors And Engineers • Russell Doubleday |