Profiting from England’s experience with small-size fire-fighting apparatus, the U. S. Government is acquiring complete mobile units at a Chrysler Corporation plant for protection of federal property. The engine and pump unit is mounted on skids so it may be placed on a special trailer and towed by an ordinary passenger car, or hauled on a light truck. The fire pump, powered by an engine rated at 95 horsepower, has a capacity of 500 gallons per minute at 120 pounds pressure, or can deliver 250 gallons a minute at 200 pounds for fires requiring a more powerful stream. Two sections of suction hose are carried, and 500 feet of 2-inch standard fire hose. The latter may be rolled on two double reels or folded into a box-type body. Several of these small fire engines may be spotted about strategic plants that might be exposed 1o incendiary fires caused by air raids or sabotage. If fires break out at more than one place, they can all be reached before the fires have much chance to spread. Two or three men can handle one of the pieces, and it can be taken into cramped quarters that would not be accessible to a large fire engine.