SPECIFICATIONS OF MUNICIPAL MOTORS.
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The abridged specifications of all classes of municipal motor, published in the Special Municipal Number of The Commercial Motor, has been reprinted as a neat and useful pocket-size booklet. The vehicles and mobile machinery are classified under 10 main headings : refuse collectors, rollers, gully and cesspit emptiers, fire-fighting appliances, street washers, ambulances, light tractors, street sweepers, miscellaneous mobile appliances and mowers.
Copies will be supplied, free, on receipt of a lid. stamp to cover postage.
Shipping Guide for Hauliers.
The following is the number of ships arriving at the London docks, wharves and jetties named, from April 17-25 inclusive : —DOCKS : —King George V. 6; Royal Albert, 6; Royal Victoria, 3; Surrey Commercial, 5; West India, 3; East India, I; South-West India, 4; Tilbury, 10; Tilbury Stage, 2; Millwall, 5; London, 2; Royal, 3. WHARVES :—Hay's, 6; Middleton's, 1; Regent's Canal, 1; Tilbury Jetty, 3.
Road Sweepers Required in Uruguay.
The municipal authorities of Montevideo are calling for tenders, which have to be presented in that city by June 5, for the supply of six mechanical street sweepers and collectors. Those concerns in a position to supply
products of United Kingdom manufacture may obtain fuller particulars by applying to the Department of Overseas Trade, 35, Old Queen Street; London, S.W.1, reference TY30053 being quoted.
DRIVERS CAN HELP TO SPREAD GOODWILL.
. A way in which drivers employed by concerns observing fair wages and conditions of labour could help their employers, as against firms who did not offer such conditions to their staffs, was described by Mr. Frank Plaits, partner of Messrs. Platts Bros., haulage contractors of Leicester and Norwich, at the annual staff dinner at Leicester, on Monday. "When you meet drivers of other firms at wayside cafés on your journeys, tell them about your conditions," he said. "You will be helping the industry."
Mr. Platts distributed" safety-firat " certificates to 20 of the firm's 28 drivers, 12 of them being from Norwich and eight from Leicester. Twelve of the recipients had gained similar awards during the preceding year.
Municipal Haulage Prices.
Caterham Urban District Council has accepted the following tenders for the hire of transport for 12 months:— Messrs. Brush and Son, Caterham, 30cwt. and 2-ton lorries, 3s. per hour, 23s. per day; cartage from station to various sites in the district, 2s. 3d. to 2s. 6d. per ton. Messrs. C. R. Vigar, Caterham, 30-cwt. lorry, 3s. per hour, 24s. per day. Messrs. T. Scott and Sons, Warlingham, 2-ton lorry, 3s. 9d. per hour, 27s. 6d. per day.