Fire-Brigade Matters.
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Lanark County Council, to whose intentions we incidentally referred in our issue of the 28th April, is asking tenders for the supply of four petroldriven motor fire-pumps of 75 h.p. and one petrol-driven motor fire-tender of 60 h.p. Full particulars may be obtained from the county clerk, Mr. Thomas Munro. County Offices, Hamilton, N.B., and tenders must be lodged on or before the 15th July.
Dublin's Accommodation.
Mr. P. C. Cowan, M.Inst.C.E., Chief Engineering Inspector to the Local Government Board of Ireland, has held an inquiry into an application by the Dublin Corporation for a loan of £6,700 for the purpose of erecting a new fire-brigade station. No apposition was offered to the proposal, and Captain Purcell, the chief officer of the Dublin Brigade, was amongst those who gave evidence with regard to the circumstances and plans.
Oldham's Purchase.
On its arrival at Oldham, the new Argyll motor tender underwent severe demonstration tests before the Mayor, members of the Watch Committee,
and other councillors. it has been christened " Grime," as a tribute to the services of Mr. Alderman Grime in Oldham's municipal affairs.
A Purchase Deferred.
By the casting vote of the Chairman, the Barnes U.D.C. has declined to accept the recommendation of its Fire Brigade Committee to purchase Merryweather tire-engine for -5:975, with an allowance of £1.20 for the existing steam engine. Apparently, no engine is to be purchased just yet.
Tenth Congress of German Professional Fire-brigade Officers.
At the tenth congress of German professional fire-brigade officers, held. at Berlin, Captain Reichel, of Berlin, read an interesting paper on "Experiments and Innovations in the Berlin Fire-Brigade, and the Labours of the Automobile Commission." This commission u-as entrusted with the task of obtaining statistics relative to the number and kinds of self-propelled vehicles used in German fire-brigades, and obtained much interesting information. At the present time, said Captain Reichel, Germany possessed 114 fire-extinguishing automobiles, the bulk being electrically driven. Berlin headed the list with four complete sets, Charlottenburg, Cologne, Krefeld, Aachen, Hamburg and Hanover following. Twenty-eight cities could show automobiles, while 14, amongst them Bremen, Chemnitz, Dortmund, Dresden and Munich, possessed steamdriven vehicles. By way of a grand nincling-up of the congress, there was a special parade of Greater-Berlin's fire-brigade automobiles fully manned, on the Doberitz military road. The Schtineberg men led off, Berlin's 16' electromobiles bringing up the rear of an extremely-interesting procession. Over a section of the road the vehicles were driven at top speed. Twenty-six fire-extinguishing automobiles, besides officers' cars, took part in the parade. Herr Sehustherus, Chief Burgomaster of Chariot tenburg, witnessed the parade in his official capacity. The adjoining illustration includes some of the participating electromobiles.