Fire-Brigade Matters.
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The Local Government Board is to be asked, by the Wath Urban District Council, for sanction to borrow money for a motor fire-engine, and the establishment of depots for the storage of fire appliances.
The Oldbury Urban District Council has decided to purchase a n-.otor hosetender, instead of a horse-drawn tender, and it is making application to the Local Government Board for an amended sanction to cover the addi. tional cost—estimated at 030.
The Civic Fire and Light Committee, of Toronto, has decided to purchase two additional fire-engines for the local brigade. Builders of motor fire-engines in this country should lose no time in forwarding particulars of their vehicles to the aforesaid committee.
The Bristol Fire Brigade is now ir possession of its Shand-Mason steam
propelled fire-engine. A public test and demonstration were given, in the presence of the Lord Mayor and numerous members of the Council, on the Tth inst., under the direction of the superintendent of the brigade, Mr. John Cotta. The engine met the tests in a first-class manner. and to -the complete satisfaction of all the -parties concerned with it. An Up-to-date Fire-brigade Station in Berlin.
A. Berlin fire-station has just celebrated its 25th " jubilee," and in this connection it is interesting to note how the rolling stock of the whole brigade stands now as compared with that of a quarter of a century back. At that time the stock consisted of 12 large, manual pumps, 11 watercarts (" waterbutts." as they were popularly termed), 13 vehicles for the conveyance of firemen, .5 steam pumps, 5 tenders, 4 gear-carts, 12 hose-carts, and 4 small vehicles, in addition to 26 reserves. Now, however, the brigade possesses 5 automobiles, 20 steam pumps, 15 mechanical escapes, 5 manual pumps, 5 hose
carts, 2 ambulance wagons, 6 vehicles for the conveyance of firemen, 7 inspection vehicles, 2 vehicles for the use of the staff, 1 water-cart and 5 working vehicles. The Corporation purposes equipping all new stations with automobiles, and gradually weeding out the horse-drawn vehicles.
Motor Fire-engines for Salford.
At their meeting on 6th October the Salford Corporation confirmed the Watch Committee's recommendation, announced in our last week's issue, for the purchase of two Merryweather " Hatfield " petrol-motor fire-engines, each with a pumping capacity of 450 gallons per minute. Both of these will be arranged to carry a fire-escape. The treble-barrel pump employed on this design of motor fire-engine is of the reciprocating type. Salford is the fourth Lancashire town to adopt the "Hatfield " motor fire-engine, others being in service at Wigan, Rochdale and Radcliffe; similar engines are also in use by the London Fire Brigade. At a. fire recently, the Radcliffe engine pumped 12 hours without a single hitch, and, afew days later, at. another fire, it worked for 3i hours with a suction equivalent to a vertical depth of 26 ft.