Many have closed and/or been consolidated over the years, so a lot of company numbers have disappeared.
This has happened over a period of more than a century. Many of the the big changes mainly occurred after the horse drawn steam pumpers were replaced by motor pumpers between 1910 and 1925. The stamina of a motor pump meant that it could respond in a much larger area than a horsed pump, so stations did not need to be so close together.
Other motivating factors included the progressive reductions in firefighters' working hours over the century and of course several periods of extreme fiscal pressure on the city's budgets at various times...
Many have closed and/or been consolidated over the years, so a lot of company numbers have disappeared.
This has happened over a period of more than a century. Many of the the big changes mainly occurred after the horse drawn steam pumpers were replaced by motor pumpers between 1910 and 1925. The stamina of a motor pump meant that it could respond in a much larger area than a horsed pump, so stations did not need to be so close together.
Other motivating factors included the progressive reductions in firefighters' working hours over the century and of course several periods of extreme fiscal pressure on the city's budgets at various times...
Added by Rob Johnson on 08 April 2018.