Framed Photograph - Second Fire Engine in WA
Brown wooden frame with glass frontage. Sepia coloured photograph of six firemen in uniform wearing metal helmets sitting in the open fire engine with two dogs. Standing behind the vehicle are two more uniformed firemen, and there is one suited gentleman wearing a hat, leaning against the passenger side of the fire engine. Large extendable ladder is installed on the vehicle above the firemens' heads.
Commer was a British manufacturer of commercial and military vehicles from 1905 until 1979.
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Label at front of photograph reads:
"Second Fire Engine in WA.
A Commer engine used as recently as 20 years ago as a power unit for sawing logs at Fremantle, and then sold to a Bunbury family.
Two of the pictured men are Mr Standen Snr, and Mr McMillan (Melville, WA).
Mrs F Standen (Fremantle)
PV331"
Underneath photograph is stamped "A O Charlton, North Fremantle"
Alfred Osborne Charlton was a prominent portrait photographer
