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 Calliope bandorgan Air not live steam  US $8,950.00
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 UNITED BRASS WHISTLE VALVE 1 NTP 200WSP FOR LIVE STEAM US $219.00
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 1 2 ARMSTRONG VALVE LIVE STEAM PRESSURE CONTROL GD 45 US $149.00
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 UNITED BRASS WHISTLE VALVE 3 4 NTP 200WSPLIVE STEAM US $134.00
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 UNITED BRASS WHISTLE VALVE 1 2 NTP 200WSP LIVE STEAM US $85.00
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 new UNITED BRASS WHISTLE VALVE 3 8 NTP 200 WSP LIVE STEAM US $66.00
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 GWR button logo live steam trains model railways t shirt US $18.96
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 A Locomans Log 1937 to 1985 by Bill Alcock Steam and diesel footplate life SC US $14.00 |
 3 Train Mags Live Steam 1988 2 Nickel Plate Road Magazines Railroad Pullman US $10.79
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 British Steam Lives By Colin Garratt Dust Jacket 1984 US $10.00 |
 TRAINS MAGAZINE AUGUST 1968STEAM IS DEAD LONG LIVE STE US $9.99
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 June 1983 Issue LIVE STEAM Magazine Spanish Bread Train US $9.95
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 The Life History of the United States V7 1877 1890 Steel Steam Hard Cover 1964 US $9.49 |
 The Age Of Steel And Steam Bernard Weisberger HC Life US $8.00 |
 Aug 1983 LIVE STEAM Magazine Special Steamboat Issue US $5.95
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 Mar 1983 LIVE STEAM Magazine 2 Gauge RR in ME Cover US $5.95
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 Apr 1983 LIVE STEAM Magazine IB Live Steamers 50th Ann US $5.95
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 Apr 1985 LIVE STEAM Magazine Jean Villette ELDA Cover US $5.95
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 Live Steam Magazine 1971 May Compound engine 10 wheeler US $5.00 |
 Argo Transacord The World of Steam SPA A 103 LP Record Live Recording US $4.72
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 KG Attwood Memories of Steam LP Live Recording US $4.72
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 1967 Live STEAM PASSENGER SERVICE DIRECTORY Booklet US $3.50
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 CLEARANCE SALE Living Steam with Anthony Lambert HCDJ 160 pgs Exc cond NR US $3.19
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 LIVE STEAM MAGAZINE JULY 1981 KEITH WATSONS STUART NO9 US $2.99
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 LIVE STEAM MAGAZINE JULY 1980 PURSUING THE PHOTOGENIC LOCOMOTIVE US $1.99
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 LIVE STEAM MAGAZINE DECEMBER 1979 A LITTLE BOYS TOY US $1.99
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Distinguish The Real Vintage Metal Toy Trucks From The Fakes.
The gradual development of the fire department during the 19th century was reflected in toys designed on the same lines as the trucks and vehicles used by the early volunteer fire fighting companies. Like the full-size versions, the first miniatures were pretty rough. Fallow's manufactured a toy fire truck pumper of stenciled tinplate that was nothing more than two barrels attached at right angles -- very simple and rough. Early fire fighting toys by Brown and Ives were just as crude. However, in the 1880s more sophisticated cast-iron fire-fighting trucks and equipment were relased. Ives manufactured a matching set of 5 cast-iron fire vehicles -- pumper, hose carriage, hook and ladder truck, fire patrol, and chief's wagon. Other key producers of fire-fighting toys were Carpenter, Hubley, and Pratt & Letchworth. Horse-drawn fire-fighting toys continued to be produced well after 1900, though by then most communities had shifted to collectible automotive vehicles.
The most varied types of antique toy fire trucks come from a line of cast iron toys vehicles. Thousands of types of manufacturers existed, yet these were the very last forged iron playthings to appear on the market. The production of the cast iron fire wagons finally stopped in the early 1900s.
Also common were such highly specialized vehicles as antique fire engines and police cars, trolleys, motorcycles, racing cars, and even collectible sprinkler trucks from the city streets.
The pumper was advertised as Fire Engine in a Hubley catalogue of 1922, when full-size pumpers were drawn by motor vehicles rather than horses. Hubley and other toy of Collectible Fire Trucks and Toys also made toys that mixed a traditional 19th-century-style fire truck pumper or other piece of fire-fighting tools with a truck body, an amalgamation that resembled vehicles actually used by fire fighters of those day. Till date these are considered to be highly prized vinatage collectibles.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the fire patrol wagon carried members of the company and tools like buckets to the scene of a fire. At other times, when no crisis threatened, it transported fire-fighters on rounds, implementing fire laws in their district.
Given below are some of the noted Manufacturers of Collectible Fire Trucks and Toys
Dent Hardware Co. -- Henry H. Dent formed the Company in 1895, and made his first cast-iron toys in 1898. The firm initially made horse-drawn fire wagons (fire trucks to you and me), then followed them up with many versions of other vehicles. During the 1900s, Dent's die-cast toys gradually replaced those of forged iron..
Hubley Company -- Founded by John Hubley in about 1894, the Hubley Company produced forged iron toys. Its initial products were trains and trolleys powered by live steam, electricity, or spring mechanisms, but they later also added horse-drawn fire trucks and wagons in the 1920s. By 1940 Hubley had become the world's biggest manufacturer of cast iron toys. Hubley gradually changed to die-cast toys made of a zinc alloy due to escalating freight charges and international competition.
Kenton Lock Manufacturing Co. -- Kenton Lock Manufacturing Co. was established in the early 1800's and in 1894 became the Kenton Hardware and began making cast iron toys. Horse-drawn vehicles, fire engines, nodding toys, and comic strip characters were some of the best known toys of the company. Kenton also used the trade name "Kentontoys".
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