Fire brigades: fire trucks - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1987 - 10 Pfennig

Fire brigades and firefighting vehicles The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues four multicolored special postage stamps with illustrations of fire brigades and fire fighting vehicles individually and in combination. Special cancellations from June 16 to August 15, 1987 Fire Brigades and Fire Trucks Almost 150 years ago, Heinrich Heine called in "Winter's Tale" to his contemporaries: "Rebuild your houses and dry your puddles and create better laws and better fire-blasting." Although around 2,000 years ago Heron of Alexandria had described portable fire engines with two pump pistons, water tanks, and a kind of reversible jet tube, mysticism, superstition, and disingenuous orders and codes of conduct by secular and clerical nobility for centuries prevented their rapid spread But also the bourgeoisie was unable to cope with the increasing concentration of production and population with sufficient extinguishing technology in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries found in euros pa portable or even mobile hand pressure spraying widespread application. Their power was several hundred liters of water per minute. In addition to the production aspects determined by objectivity and expediency, the manufacturers of such syringes frequently also considered the applicability of the orderer. So the richly decorated hand pressure syringe must have originated from the year 1756 (10 Pfennig). Technically advanced hand pressure sprayers were still in service in smaller fire brigades 30 years ago.