Municipal Purchases and Proposals.
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RaAnsoun Corporation Health Come mittee recommends the purchase of a Morris motor ambulance at a cost of £390.
We learn that the BRADFORD Corporation Tramways Comrnittte has decided to obtain tenders for the supply of 12 new buses.
The tramways committee of the OLDHAM Corporation has accepted the tender of S. and J. Smethurst, Ltd., for an extension of the bus garage in Renshaw Street.
"iVe understand that sanction has been given to the BURTON-ON-TRENT Corporation Tramways Committee for the borrowing of £3,630 to purchase three additional Guy motorbuses the period allowed for the repayment of the loan being eight years.
The YORK Watch Committee has had under consideration the question of the use of automatic traffic signals in the city, and recommends that the tender of Barber and Colman, Ltd., Brooklands, Manchester. for installing this equipment, at a cost of £296, be accepted.
WAKEFIELD Corporation has asked the city engineer to prepare a scheme of motor traction for the electricity des partmen t.
The city engineer of YORK is to make another comparative test as between horses and motor vehicles in connection with the collection of refuse from the Leeman Road district.
LEEDS Watch Committee has refused an application from Mr. R. Fox, junior, for licences to ply for hire with niotorbuses within the city in connection with a service between Leeds and Castleford, via Swillington, and for permission to extend a bus service between Rothwell and Wakefield to Leeds.
The Ycnit Corporation Tramways Committee has had under consideration the purchase of 32-seater buses, required to maintain an efficient service, and recommends the tender of Karrier Motors, Ltd., for the supply of two chassis at a price of £782 each, and that of C. H. Roe (1923) Ltd. for the supply of two motorbus boClies at a cost of 1450 each _(tim cost to include assembling),
BIRKENHEAD COTPOIEttiOn has decided to purchase a new Ford car for the water department at a price not exceeding £225.
A vehicle-washing plant for the Fulford Road depot is being purchased by the YORK Tramways and Motor Committee at a cost of £148.
The Ministry of Health has agreed to the proposal of BRADFORD Corporation to take over land in Ludham Street for the purpose of establishing a central motorbus garage.
An application by Messrs. S. Ledgard and the Cream Bus Service, Ltd., for permission to link up their services betty( en Leeds and Otley and between Otley and Ilkley has been granted by the LEEDS Watch Committee.
The BIRKENHEAD Watch Committee, following an interview with the Home Office, relative to the proposed installation of automatic traffic controls for certain street junctions in the borough, has authorized the chief constable to instal an experimental set of these controls for one junction at an estimated cost of £220.