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MUNICIPAL PURCHASES AND PROPOSALS.

15th November 1927, Page 126
15th November 1927
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Bradford Education Committee has obtained sanction for a loan of £450 for the purchase of a Bean motor ambulance.

The tramways committee of the Burton-on-Trent Corporation has accepted the tender of Guy Motors, Ltd., for the supply of two 26-seater motorbuses.

The gas committee of the Leeds Corporation recommends the purchase of two Vulcan 2-ton lorries at not exceeding £620 °richt and a Morris-Cowley commercial vehicle at not more than £200.

A fire-engine, complete with first-aid apparatus, chemical extinguisher and a 30-35-ft. ladder, and a trailer pump are required by the Pontefract Corporation. Tenders have to be delivered by November 26th.

Sheffield Corporation has accepted the tender of the Laflly (England) Co., Ltd., for the supply of a 2i-ton chassis at £495, subject to an allowance of £100 for scrap vehicles, which are being taken in part exchange.

Brighton Town Council requires a 60 b.p. 500-600-gallon turbine fireengine, carrying a 60-ft. escape and first-aid equipment. Tenders have to be delivered to the town clerk not later than November 28th.

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Douglas (I.O.M.) Corporation has asked the tramways engineer to obtain quotations for bus chassis and bodies.

Hastings Corporation has prepared a scheme for the extension of the motor parking station at the Fishmarket at a cost of £2,400.

The drainage committee of the Portsmouth Corporation recommends acceptance of the tender of Dennis Bros., Ltd„ at £1,360, for the supply of a gully and cesspool-emptying machine.

Otley. Urban District Council has granted an application for a bus service through ()dry from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Liverpool to a company represented by Messrs. Trotter, Bruce and LAt, of Durham. Leeds Corporation is seeking sanction for a loan of £2,475 for the purchase of three steam wagons for the highways department.

The tramways committee of the Plymouth Corporation has accepted the tender of the Associated Daimler Co., Ltd., at £225, for a spare engine.

Leeds Watch Committee has decided, as an experiment, to instal electric traffic signals at the junction of Bond Street and Park Row at a cost of £180.

It is stated that the tramways committee of the Sheffield Corporation has purchased the motorbus services of A. F. Hancock, Ltd., of Bamford, and the Unity Services, Ltd., of Clowne.

Liverpool Corporation has accepted the tender of the Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co., for the supply of a. combined vacuum gully emptier ad street-washing machine at £1,200.

At a maati az: of the tramways committee of the Hull Corporation the manager reported on the suggestion that buses should be run in place of trams on the Old Town route and that the matter should be deferred until a decision had been arrived at with respect to the licensing of one-mancontrolled-type buses. The committee accordingly deferred the matter.


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