Municipal Purchases and Proposals.
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OSSETT Corporation • has authorized the purchase of a Ford 'niotor lorry for
the g,aS department, •
The tramways committee of the B1TRTON-ON-TRENT COMM: G ti On has accepted the tender of Guy Motors, Ltd.,
for two 25-seater buses. • The traraw.aYs Committee Of the Ominnin Corporation has obtained sanction to •borreW £38,640 in respect of the provision of 14 'motorbuses.
The highways committee of the LEEDS Corporation has accepted the tender of T. Green and Son, Ltd., at £247 for the supply of a footpath motor roller.
FINCHLEY Urban District Council recommends acceptance of the quotation of Leyland Motors, Ltd., at i1,190, for the supply of a motor fire-engine.
The tramways committee of the DERRY Corporation is to purchase two double-decked buses at a cost of £3,235 and four single-deckers at a cost of about 15,000.
The tramways committee of the BRADFORD Corporation has accepted the tender of the English Electric Co. Ltd., at £8,580, for the supply of six 36-Seater railless vehicles.
The City of LEEDS Public Health Department requires tenders for an ambulance suitable for the removal of infectious cases, and these have to be. delivered by July 13th.
OLDHAM Watch Committee has decided to purchase a motor fire-pump and a motor lorry at a cost of £2,000.
FINORLEY Urban District Council has accepted the quotation of H. Pope and Sons; Ltd., for the supply of a 20 h.p. Austin ambulance at the sum of £670.
CARLISLE Corporation has instructed its treasurer to invite tenders for the supply of a suitable motor vehicle for the collection of money from slot meters, especially in the outside districts.
The tramways -committee of the Omumiu Corporation has asked the borough engineer and surveyor to prepare plans for an extension of the bus garage and to submit them at an early date for the committee's consideration.
STOCKTON Corporation is inviting tenders for the erection of a new steelframed bus garage in Bridge Road. This corporation, which is to augment its fleet by the purchase of six doubledeck Leyland buses, has at present 33 machines.
The tramways committee of the BRADFORD Corporation has accepted the tender of Oswald Tillotson, Ltd., of Bradford, at £17,207, for the supply of 10 Leyland 51-seater double-deck motorbuses. It also recommends the purchase from the Same company of a further five Leyland Titan double-deck motorbuses at £1,721 each.
MARKET IIAREOROUGH Urban District Council is to obtain, tenders for a motor lawn mower.
WATFORD Corporation has authorized the purchase of a 30-cwt. lorry for the electricity department.
BRADFORD Corporation has accepted the tender of Oswald Tillotson, Ltd., at £981, for the supply of a Leyland 4-toes tower wagon chassis.
The tramways committee of the BRADFORD Corporation has instructed the city architect to prepare plans for the proposed central bus garage in Ludlam Street.
The tramways committee of the ROTHERHAM Corporation recommends the purchase of two Bristol chassis of the latest type, the bodies for them to be built at the tramways depot.
The tramways committee of the OLDHAM Corporation has accepted the following tenders :—Guy Motors, Ltd., for eight chassis ; Harrier Motors, Ltd., for six chases; the English Electric Co., Ltd., for 14 motorbus bodies.
At a meeting of the highways committee of the LEAMINGTON Corporation the borough engineer reported as to the relative costs of haulage by the corporation's own motor lorry and by hired lorries, and the matter is to be further considered before another motor lorry is purchased.