Framed Photograph - Second Fire Engine in WA

Overview

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.

Historical information

Commer was a British manufacturer of commercial and military vehicles from 1905 until 1979.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-124-2025.229
Item type
Inscriptions and markings

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"

Contextual Information

Alfred Osborne Charlton was a prominent portrait photographer

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Western Australia, Australia
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Last modified
Sunday, 6 July, 2025
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