Municipal Purchases and Proposals. SOLIHULL Rural District Council is buying
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Thornycroft vehicles. Al3ERTILLERY Urban District Council Is to buy a new fire-engine at an estimated cost of £752. LYE and WOLLESCOTE Urban District Council has ordered a Morris-Commercial 250-400-gallon fire-engine. The highways committee of CHELMSvont, Corporation has decided to obtain tenders for a refuse-collection lorry. EAST RETFORD Borough Council has recently commissioned a Morris-Commercial 250-400-gallon fire-engine, complete with first-aid equipment. The electricity department of BIRMINGHAM Corporation is buying a Reliance elevating petrol truck and crane trailer from Redshaw Lister Woollen Machinery Co., Ltd., Heckmondwike.
Fewer Persons Killed in Street Accidents.
Collated statistics prepared by the National "Safety First" Association, following the receipt of special returns of street accidents from chief constables in different parts of the country, reveal the fact that there was a 10 per cent. reduction in the number of fatalities during the first nine months of the present year, as compared with 1930, although there was a small increase in non-fatal accidents. Last year the number of persons killed in street accidents totalled 7,305 —an average of 20 a day. In each of the past 10 years the number has exceeded that for the preceding 12 months. The outstanding feature of the latest returns is that there were 393 fewer deaths recorded than in the first nine months of 1930, the total for this year being 3,280, as against 3,673 for the 'previous year. In the same period the
number of non-fatal accidents rose from 95,995 to 102,187. This rise is probably due to the fact that the terms of the Road Traffic Act provide that all street accidents must be reported to the police.
The figures are based on returns received from 200 districts, so that the results, although not official, may be taken as being representative.
Prize for Park Royal Double-decker. On another of our news pages we publish the names of the concerns that received awards for bodywork at the Commercial Motor Show. In the section for double-deck buses, Park Royal Coachworks, Ltd., Abbey Road, London, N.W.10, obtained a prize for a smart Dennis Lance 50-seater, a few details of which will be of interest. This vehicle had a Sunsaloon sliding roof giving an opening about 18 ft. long; when not in use it was concealed in the rear dome. Careful attention was paid, to ventilation, which was effected by means of roof devices, louvres and Q.T. half-drop windows in conjunction with the sliding head. The exterior and interior decoration schemes were carefully carried out and the body was well proportioned.
A New A.C. Sparking Plug. The A.C.-Sphinx Sparking Plug Co., Ltd., Bradford Street, Birmingham, has recently marketed a new detachable plug, No. 575, for the model-A Ford. It has been subjected to exhaustive tests and is claimed to give increased power, improved acceleration and better slow running. In common with other A.C. plugs, the electrode is made of Isovolt alloy, which is said to give easier starting and more even firing, whilst the insulator is particularly robust so as to withstand hard service. The terminal is specially designed for use in conjunction with Ford all-metal leads. Items of News in a Pew Lines. Darlington Corporation's transport further to excommittee is proposing fur tend its trolley-bus system.
Corporation rporation has decided to introduce circular bus services on the Arbrough Road end Broughty Ferry tram routes.
Barimar, Ltd., 14-18, Lamb's Conduit giving Street, London, W.C.
folder ing details of its metallurgical process for repairing cylinders with scored bores.
The municipal transport manager at
sb is Middlesbrough to prepare a report on the merits of motorbuses, trolleybuses and ' tramcars, for consideration the transport committee is reviewwhen ing its policy.
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The tramways committee of Ayr Corporation has appointed a sub-committee to consider the offer of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., to purchase the tramways. Details of the proposal were given last week in The Commercial Motor.
On November 16th a through service of trolley-buses was inaugurated between Wolverhampton and Walsall, the service being jointly operated by the Wolverhampton and Walsall Corporations. The route had been previously served by motorbuses.
The latest booklet issued by the Moss Ltd., Cr Gear Co., Lown Works, Tyburn, Birmingham, gives a good idea of the company's various products. . Moss gears are Manufactured in a wellequipped works, in which modern plant is installed.