1894 Knaust Horse-Drawn Hand Pumper w/Kernreuter Pump

This Viennese horse-drawn pumper was built by Wilhelm Knaust from Austria. Knaust’s design and the K-52 couplings were selected as the primary design throughout Austria and Hungary. However, the world’s economic crisis of that time doomed his company, which caused a failure in a few short years.

This amazing and beautiful apparatus was returned to its full glory in 1986 by our then resident restorer Don Hale.