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. Kirkcaldy Town Council is purchasing a motor fire-engine. .
Derby Town Council is appreciably nearer the purchase of a motor fire-engine than it was a month ago.
The Rangoon Electric Supply and Tramways Co., Ltd., will shortly purchase a -fleet of motorbuses, and it is not unlikely that the Burma Railways Co. will do the same.
Lincoln City Council is investigating the alternatives of seeking powers to establish its own system of motorbuses, or to grant rights to private owners of such vehicles.
The Metropolitan Asylums Board has decided to experiment with aCCUMulator-driven ambulances. Two chassis have been pin'chased from the Cedes Electric Traction Co., Ltd., at £350 each, inclusive of batteries.
Brighton Corporation is about to seek powerOlo authorize it to charge a 1114sum of money, or a proportion of the receipts, as a condition to granting licences to anybody " seeking privileges in the nature of public monopolies."
Messrs. Allen, the original proprietors of Bean's Express, are giving an increasing amount of attention to the development of public-service undertakings. They have been welcomed by the Stourport Town Council as the inducers of competition with the tramcars on the Kidderminster Road.
The receipts of the National Steam Car Co., Ltd., for the week ended 14th November, 1913, were 13589. This shows an increase of £1642 over the corresponding period of 1912.
The receipts of the Tramways (M.E.T.) Omnibus Co., Ltd., for the week ended 8th November, 1913, were £8548, and for the Gearless Omnibus Co., Ltd., £517. These show a decrease of £68 and an increase of £29 respectively as against the previous week.
L.C.C. v. L•G•O.C•
The Highways Committee of the L.C.C., which has for many months been pressing to secure the separation of tramway and motorbus stopping-places, appears to be considerably disgruntled at the likelihood of particular decisions and prospects in this connection. The LOU. officials must not expect the L.G.O.C. administration calmly to let it take the best points unchallenged.
Southwark Borough Council has bought a Carling parcelcar for the collection of verminous bedding.
A petition for the compulsory winding up of the Provincial Motor Cab Co., Ltd., was again ordered to stand over last week.
A preference for residents, to the extent of more than 50 per cent. in fares, is a feature in the terms of a licence wh,Leh has been granted by the Penmaenmawr U.D.C. to the Llandudno Automobile Co.
Handbook for Cabbies.
The Motor Cab Owner-Drivers Association, 20, Buckingham Street, Adelphi, W.C., notifies us that its members, present and future, will be supplied with a copy of the Association's official "OwnerDriver's Daybook," free of charge, and this will be published by the Preston Publicity Co., of 112, High Holborn, W.C.
" Tcr.)edo Perks."
Mr. W. W. Perks, to whom the streamline torpedo char-a-bancs body is attributed, and who is one of the energetic char-a-banes representative of Commercial Cars, Ltd., is about to be married. He will use a Commercar 24-seated char-a-bancs, which has just been finished at Luton, • for the honeymoon. Not inappropriately, the Comniercar char-a-banes types are known as the " W.P." series, and this is a direct compliment to Mr. Perks as the originator.