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Municipal Purchases and Proposals.

18th December 1928
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TAF PECHAN Water Board is considering the purchase of a motor lorry.

PENtTSMOUTH Corporation has authorized the purchase of a motor lorry at an estimated cost of £30.

The tramways committee of the BRIGHTON Corporation has purchased a Tructractor it a cost of £314.

The tramways committee of the BRADFORD Corporation has authorized the purchase from Leyland Motors Ltd., of six double-deck motorbuses.

The water committee of the BRADFORD Corporation has decided to purchase a combination vehicle of about 12 h.p. for the rapid transport of men and tools.

The tramways committee of the HULL Corporation has decided to proceed with a scheme for the erection of a bus garage at Barnsley Street at an estimated cost of n8,000.

The tramways committee of the BRADFORD Corporation has accepted the tender of Oswald Tillotson, Ltd., of Bradford, for the supply of six Leyland single-deck motorbuses.

BRIGFITON Watch Committee has now accepted an amended tender of Smith Bros. (Motors), Ltd., of Manchester, at £515, for the supply of a combined motor ambulance and prison van.

CHESTERFIELD Corporation bas asked the borough surveyor to confer with the transport manager and report as to the provision of garage accommodation at the transport depot for the motor vehicles of the highway department.

SOUTHPORT Corporation has • decided

to purchase a motor ambulance. .

WEST BaostwrcH Corporation has placed a repeat order for Guy buses.

RUGBY Rural District Council has decided to purchase a motor ambulance at a cost of £.575.

The gas department of the NEWA TO/ON-TRENT Corporation is buying several Guy 25-cwt. lorries.

Paymourn Corporation has accepted the tender of Mann's Patent Steam Cart and Wagon Co., at 1750, for the supply of a 6-ton steam wagon.

HULL Corporation has placed an order with the Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.' for six double-deck cevered-top bus bodies which will be mounted on Guy six-wheeled chassis.

The tramways committee of the PERTH Town Council has recommended the purchase of five Thornyeroft buses, part payment for which will be made by the disposal of five old-type vehicles.

TIPTON-ON-SEVERN Rural District Council is getting lift° touch with the Malvern and Pershorc autlaorities with the object of discussing the question of providing a motor ambulance for the joint use of the three districts.

HOLBORN Union is inviting tenders for the supply of a pneumatic-tyred, petrol-driven low-loading ambulance of a special type, built to the board's specification. Tenders have to be delivered by January 18th to the administrative offices of the union, 53, Clerkenweil Road, London, RCA. SOIITITPORT Corporation is IO Obtaiq quotations for the supply of four motorbuses.

OXFORD Watch Committee recommends the provision of mechanical transport for the police force.

• SALFORD Corporation has placed an order with the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., for 15 A.E.C. 35-50 lip. 32seater single-deck buses.

The tramways committee of the BRADFORD Corporation has extended for a period of 12 months the contract with the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., for the supply of rubber tyres.

'WARRINGTON Corporation has asked the tramways manager and the borough engineer to prepare a scheme for covering in the land recently purchased for the purpose of providing additional accommodation for motorbuses.

The gas committee of the BRADFORD Corporation has visited York, where it insp-ected a travelling showroom, the property of the York Gas Co., and, subsequently, has accepted the offer of the Howcroft Carriage and Engineering Co.: of West Hartlepool, to supply such a vehicle at the price of 1500.

The tramways committee of the ROTHERHAM Corporation recommends a renewal of the contract with the Michelin Tyre Co., Ltd., for the supply of pneumatic tyres on a mileage basis at rates reduced from an average of .697d. per mile to an average of .655d. per mile, representing a reduction in the cost of tyres of approximately 1230 per annum.


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