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  2. Glossary of firefighting equipment - Wikipedia

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    a handcart, vehicle, or trailer adapted for storing and hauling hose and related equipment; used by industrial fire brigades with large buildings, or where supplemental hoses are needed beyond that normally carried on a fire engine; also used for taking attack hose into a high-rise and for returning dirty, wet hose to the station instead of ...

  3. Willmar, Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Willmar was established as the county seat in 1871 and was incorporated as a village in 1874 and as a city in 1901. [9] Willmar was the site of a bank robbery by the Machine Gun Kelly gang on July 15, 1930. They robbed the Bank of Willmar (later Otto Bremer Trust) of about $70,000 (equivalent to $1,277,000 in 2023) and wounded three people. [10]

  4. Spray nozzle - Wikipedia

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    Applications of spray technology are more pronounced during the course of base and clear coatings process which are encompassed as the last stages in automotive coating. Among others rotary bells mounted on robots and hvlp (high volume, low pressure) sprayers are widely used to paint car bodywork during manufacture. [8]

  5. Sprayer - Wikipedia

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    Sprayers range in size from man-portable units (typically backpacks with spray guns) to trailed sprayers that are connected to a tractor, to self-propelled units similar to tractors with boom mounts of 4–30 feet (1.2–9.1 m) up to 60–151 feet (18–46 m) in length depending on engineering design for tractor and land size.

  6. Fire sprinkler system - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The apparatus consisted of a cylindrical airtight reservoir of 400 hogsheads (c. 95,000 litres) fed by a 10-inch (250 mm) water main which branched to all parts of the theatre. A series of smaller pipes fed from the distribution pipe were pierced with a series of 1 ⁄ 2 -inch (13 mm) holes which would pour water in the event ...

  7. 18th Field Artillery Brigade - Wikipedia

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    The 18th Field Artillery Brigade is America's Contingency Field Artillery Brigade. The Brigade plans, synchronizes and employs long range precision strike fires and counterfires in support of the XVIII Airborne Corps, its subordinate divisions, and to Special Operations forces as required.

  8. Red Ball Garage - Wikipedia

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    In 1913 the road became a part of the Red Ball Route, a highway that linked the Minneapolis/St. Paul area with St. Louis. It received its name from the highway signs used to mark the route. The highway was paved from 1929 to 1930, and later became U.S. Route 218 until it was moved to the east as a four lane-highway in the 1990s.

  9. American Red Ball - Wikipedia

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    The American Red Ball Halibrand-Ford from the 1964 Indianapolis 500. American Red Ball is a moving company operating worldwide. It was founded in Indianapolis in 1919 as American Red Ball Transit Co. Inc. [1] In 1996, owners Walter and AliceJo Saubert sold the company to Atlas World Group. At the time it was the 13th largest mover in the United ...