Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Vintage Fire Hydrant


A FEW AND FORGOTTEN: A fire hydrant on Tunku Abd Rahman Road beside IPD Kuantan- The focus is on water hydrants, the valves introduced by the British in the main pipelines for the fire tenders to tap the water resources in the event of a fire accident. These hydrants "essential in nature and aesthetic in appearance" are fast becoming history. Under the British regime, the municipalities had these hydrants in every ward but many of them had become defunct and useless.

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