Fire brigades: fire trucks - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1987 - 25 Pfennig

Fire brigades and firefighting vehicles The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues four multicolored special postage stamps with illustrations of fire brigades and fire fighting vehicles individually and in combination. Special cancellations from June 16 to August 15, 1987 Fire Brigades and Fire Trucks Almost 150 years ago, Heinrich Heine called in "Winter's Tale" to his contemporaries: "Rebuild your houses and dry your puddles and create better laws and better fire-blasting." Although around 2,000 years ago Heron of Alexandria had described portable fire engines with two pump pistons, water tanks, and a kind of reversible jet tube, mysticism, superstition, and disingenuous orders and codes of conduct by secular and clerical nobility for centuries prevented their rapid spread But also the bourgeoisie was not able to cope with the increasing concentration of production and population with sufficient extinguishing technology.With the invention of James Watt in 1769 it was m It is possible to use the power of steam industrially and technically in many ways. Around 60 years later, J. Ericsson built the first mobile steam jet sprayer in London. It proved itself under difficult conditions. As early as 1832, therefore, the city of Berlin acquired such an injection. A little later emerged self-propelled sprayers. For many decades, these imposing smoking, copper and brass-flashing vehicles, drawn by horses or self-propelled, shaped the image of the fire brigades of larger cities. So also the illustrated model from the year 1903 (25 Pfennig). The pump power was about 2,000 liters of water per minute, the driving speed about 20 km / h.