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General Historical Section D






This section displays old & vintage fire equipments, pictures, publications and artefacts.











Left above: The oldest object in the museum: a swob mop used to extinguish flames. (19th century)


Middle: Rusted-through chemical fire extinguisher from the 1920s/30s, discovered in a remote and long-abandoned building complex that had served as an old people's home and an asylum. Maalahti, Finland.


Right:  A primitive dry powder fire extinguisher Branus, manufactured in the Netherlands. (The tube)








Below: A so-called Nazi-type fire helmet from Finland (1950s).


Right :A gift article (liquor bottle) from Finland that imitates a spool of rescue rope, a standard item in a fireman's personal gear.


Above: A French toy fire engine from 1950's








  FBU Miniature helmet/paperweight/gift object, Fire Brigade Union (UK).











British die cast rescue toys, 1940's




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Finnish fire department board game from 1950's
















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Helsinki city fire department, Ambulance ticket 2,50 marks, 1960's













4 Firefighting Technology Past and Present, 

children's collectible cards 

from the former German Democratic Republic.











Ambulance blanket from Helsinki with red cross and text: Fire Department








Plastic ambulances, manufactured  somewhere in Eastern Europe 
during the socialistic era







Helsinki firemen photographed in the backyard of Kallio Fire Station, 1940's
(Photo: Helsinki Rescue dept.)








"The little fire guard" educational colouring book for children










Fire officer, a miniature bronze sculpture from Hungary











A German nazi era training booklet for Fire Service, 
part 1: Supression Attack 
Berlin 1939







 Finnish collectible gard from the coffee package, 1950's









Volunteer Fire Brigade III  medal (Finland)
Toy fireman from early 1960's (Germany)









Showbox D











American type ladder pumper, tin toy from 1960's (Made in Japan)









Finnish fire helmet, made of steel 1950's







Scale model of old fire station with fire engines from 1950's