The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1913-05-20
MOTT UNIVERSAL
BEATS THE RECORDS
Makes Best Showing Of Any
Auto Pumping Engine Here.

g1neS were brought to M0rristOwn on
Wednesday for tests preliminary to
letting the contract for the new appa-
ratus for Humane Engine company
The Mott Fire Engine company, of
Minneapolis, Mimi, broke all records
with its Universal six-cylinder, 900
gallon pumping engine. Where the
Webb companys pumping engine Q. Z
previous test threw a one and one
eighth inch stream over the Method
ist Church steeple, using two lines of
hose of $50 feet each siamesed into a
one and one-half inch nozzle and de-
livering $50 gallons per minute the
Universal engine, through 1000 feet of
hose, four lines of ESQ feet each sia-
messed into two Eastman deluge noz-
zles each one and one-quarter inch
smooth bore, delivered over $50 gallons
per minute over the same steeple
The next test was of four lines of
$50 feet each siamesed into a one and
one-quarter smooth bore nozzle and
the Universal engine showed a noz-
zle pressure of 120 pounds and pump
pressure of 165 pounds, delivering 730
gallons of water per minute also 30
feet over the top of the same church
steeple.
Taken to Speedwell bridge and
drawing water from the river through
an eighteen feet suction and forcing
1t through 1000 feet of hose, the Uni
versal carried pump pressure of 245
pounds, vacuum of sixteen inches,
and, using nozzle one and one-quarter
inches diameter, showed nozzle pres
sure of forty pounds, delivering 292
gallons of water per minute.
The next test was at hydrant cor
ner of Speedwell avenue and Spring
street. The hydrant has pressure
of twenty-four pounds, has a four and
one-half inch opening and is connected
with ten-inch main. Using three
300-feet lines and q one and one
eighth inch smooth bore nozzle on
each line the Mott Universal showed
pump pressure of 1876 pounds, five-inch
vacuum, nozzle pressures of sixty-one,
sixty-two and sixty-three pounds, aver
age, sixty-two, delivering 900 gallons
of water per minute.
| The other pumping engine shown
| Wednesday was from the Dixon Cas-
cade Pump company, of Newark, 1t be-
| ing the second test for this concern.
The first time the Dixon people showed
a pump here 1t failed to come up to
the expectations of both its makers
and the town officials. The Dixon
company, with their 1,200-gallon pump
/ ing engine, attempted to follow the
Universal engine.
/ AT the Methodist church, through
four 250-feet lines siamesed into one
and one-eighth inch nozzle the Dixon
showed pump pressure of lao
pounds, a nozzle pressure OF ITO
pounds and delivered at the rate of
10 ha
people, however, did not follow the
Universal in the other test at the
church, using instead two 100-feet
lines siamesed into one fifty-feet line
with one and one-fourth inch tip, the
nozzle pressure being 10S pounds, the
pump pressure 40 pounds and deliv-
ering at the rate of 4S0 gallons, throw
ing the stream to the same height as
attained by the two one and one-quar-
ter inch streams thrown by the Uni
versal.
At the river the Dixon people con-
sumed seventeen minutes in getting
water from draught while the Univer-
sal picked up the water in less than
a minute. Through the same hose as
used by the Universal, 1000 feet with
a one and one-fourth inch nozzle, the
Dixon showed a pump pressure of
ITO pounds, nozzle pressure of 80
pounds, delivering water at the rate
of 253 gallons per minute.
Using the same test as the Uni
versal at the hydrant the Dixon,
through three 300-feet lines with one
and one-eighth inch nozzles, showed
a pump pressure of 110, leaving a
hydrant pressure of ten pounds, noz-
zle pressures of fifty-fiye, fifty-seven
and sixty pounds and delivered $50
gallons per minute against net
pump pressure of 100 pounds.
1t was noted that the Universal in
the same test threw 900 gallons of
water per minute against the pump
pressure of 135 plus the vacuum,
net pump pressure of 1917 pounds,
showing that the engine was suck
ing the water from the main. There
were many engineers and others ia
miliar with mechanics in the crowd
who witnessed the tests and the
wonderful difference of construction
of the Mott engine over the Dixon
was commented upon.
There is still another pumping en-
CINE to visit the town before the con-
tract will be let, the other machine
being the Robinson, which is expect
ed within a week or two.