From The Wiltshire Times, Saturday 3rd September 1887:
Warminster. The New Fire Engine.
The fire engine given to the Local Board by Mr. R.L. Willcox on behalf of an anonymous donor, arrived at the railway station on Wednesday. [Plans to parade the engine through the principal streets were abandoned because of a downpour of rain, but the brigade, under Captain Hurlestone and Lieut. Neat, escorted it to the Local Board’s yard in George Street.] It is of the Metropolitan manual type, requiring 22 men to work it, and able to throw 100 gallons a minute to a height of 120 feet.