October 24, 2006
Fire hose prices c. 1906
From the Oct. 24, 1906 NYT:
Contracts for 63,200 feet of hose for the Fire Department were awarded by Purchasing Agent Burns yesterday to the Manhattan Rubber Company for $70,283. The prices ranged from 63 cents to $1.69 per foot, according to size.
EH.net suggests that the 2005 CPI adjusted prices would be $14.11 to $37.85 per foot.
The first hit on a simple Google search of "fire hose prices" yielded this site with prices ranging from $1.42 to $3.48 per foot, depending on size (no idea of how quality differs, but is it safe to assume that today's fire hose is better than that of a hundred years ago?)
Posted by Craig Depken at 12:33 PM in
Economics
