A Well Equipped Fire Supply House. - Fire Engineering: Firefighter Training and Fire Service News, Rescue

2022-09-24 04:53:48 By : Ms. Kat Ding

A Well Equipped Fire Supply House.

For many years a factory for the manufacture of fire department supplies has carried on a very prosperous business at 1320 Ridge avenue, Philadelphia. John H. Clay, an enthusiastic fireman, was its founder, and today it shows the results of his enterprise and the foundation laid by his genius for a greater future. When the fire-service was only budding into permanence, and volunteer systems held sway, Clay fire-tools were in demand. The Automatic, Alert and Fire Chief brands of home fire-extinguishers are as much standard appliances as they were when invented. I hey were devised on sound principles and required no change in their construction. This was also the case with the Jones coupling, w'hich Wm. Clay so improved that it has been adopted by the Philadelphia department and has been exclusively used by it for a long time. Very few chief engineers have not heard of the Clay door-closing devices. The door-spring especially is recognised as the best appliance of its kind extant, and, in proof of this, it may be seen on nearly all the fire-doors throughout the country. A short time ago George B. Clay succeeded to the business, and it is now being extended along certain lines, in keeping with the progress fire department equipments have made at the present time. The portraits given herewith are those of the late Chief John II. Clay, who was head of the Conshohocken fire department at the time of his death, and his son and successor, George B. Clay, who is now the head of this prosperous Philadelphia fire-appliance manufactory.

For many years a factory for the manufacture of fire department supplies has carried on a very prosperous business at 1320 Ridge avenue, Philadelphia. John H. Clay, an enthusiastic fireman, was its founder, and today it shows the results of his enterprise and the foundation laid by his genius for a greater future. When the fire-service was only budding into permanence, and volunteer systems held sway, Clay fire-tools were in demand. The Automatic, Alert and Fire Chief brands of home fire-extinguishers are as much standard appliances as they were when invented. I hey were devised on sound principles and required no change in their construction. This was also the case with the Jones coupling, w'hich Wm. Clay so improved that it has been adopted by the Philadelphia department and has been exclusively used by it for a long time. Very few chief engineers have not heard of the Clay door-closing devices. The door-spring especially is recognised as the best appliance of its kind extant, and, in proof of this, it may be seen on nearly all the fire-doors throughout the country. A short time ago George B. Clay succeeded to the business, and it is now being extended along certain lines, in keeping with the progress fire department equipments have made at the present time. The portraits given herewith are those of the late Chief John II. Clay, who was head of the Conshohocken fire department at the time of his death, and his son and successor, George B. Clay, who is now the head of this prosperous Philadelphia fire-appliance manufactory.

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