Motor-Ambulance Activity.
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The Cookstown (Ireland) Board of Guardians has decided to purchase two motor ambulances.
Rawtenstall Borough Council is still busy looking into the question of motor-ambulance equipment, and will shortly make up its mind.
The Merthyr Board of Guardians has referred proposals for the purchase of a motor ambulance, for the second time, to its Finance Committee.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has definitely expresed his preparedness to consider the claims of owners of motor ambulances to a rebate upon motor spirit.
Salisbury and District Joint Isolation Hospital Board, after reference to 15 tenders for a motor ambulance to a sub-committee. has accepted the tender of Scout Motors, Ltd.
Avon, Dunlop, Engelbert and Shrewsbury-Challiner tires have been chosen by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, in the latest tenders accepted—for a three months' supply. Colliery Life-saving Vans.
The La,cre Motor Car Cu. Ltd. has supplied two rescue vans to the .Aberaman and Rhyrnney Valley rescue stations, similar to the one illustrated below. These vehicles will accommodate 11 men, and room is provided for 11 sets of Draeger outfits, four oxygen cylinders, four pulmotors. and a sufficient quantity of ambulance stores and tools. A well, accessible from the interior by four hinged doors in the floor, contains potash. cartridges, and hand lamps. By the driver's seat is an arrangement for carrying a pump and two fire extinguishers. No doubt similar vehicles will be installed in the near future in many other colliery districts.