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Limit on Petrol Stations on New Road.
The highways committee of Lanes County Council considers that some limitation is desirable with regard to the number of petrol-filling stations to be permitted to be erected on the Liverpool-East Lancashire road. A recommendation is being submitted to the
various town planning authorities through the areas of which the new road passes, that there should be a minimum distnnee of two miles between the different fuel-supply stations.
Big Dennis Municipal Contract.
Wo understand that Dennis Brothers, Ltd., Guildford, has received an order for the supply to the Tanzim Department of Cairo, of 30 municipal vehicles, comprising 16 6-cubic-yd. refuse collectors, 13 450-gallon streetwatering machines and an 800-gallon gully emptier.
Replacing Roads After Rail Removal.
The highways. committee of Manchest: r Corporation has arranged terms with the transport committee for the reinstatement or reconstruction of roads
where trams have been, or are to be, abolished. The total cost will be !about /120,000. In the first place, the tram rails are to be filled and covered with bitumen, but it may later he found desirable to vary the method of carrying Out this work.
Bexhill Considers Centralization.
Bexhill Corporation officials are considering whether it is practicable for the municipal vehicles to he pooled and suitable arrangements made for their joint use by the various departments.
Highways Authorities and Accident Reports.
The Metropolitan Boroughs Standing Joint Committee has made representations to the Home Secretary upon the question of a further increased charge for police reports on street accidents, and has suggested that such reports should be supplied free of cost to highways authorities. The committee has now received a letter from the Home Secretary, referring to similar representations made in 1922, and stating that, having reconsidered the matter, he is unable to accede to the proposal. Tenders Accepted by L.C.C.
The stores committee of the London County Council invited 23 concerns to quote for the supply, on hire, of petrol lorries for the tramways department for a year, and the following tenders have been accepted :—Messrs. W. Edwards and Sons, £375 ; J. IL Munday, Ltd., £1,440; and United Service Transport Co., Ltd., £96.
Forty undertakings were asked to quote for the supply, on hire, of seven vans, for seven years, and the tender of Mr. R. J. Weeks has been accepted for Garner 2i-ton forward-control chassis equipped with bodies in accordance with the council's specifications.
For the supply and maintenance of large-capacity ambulances, quotations were invited from 32 companies, and the tender of Dennis Bros., Ltd., has been accepted. '
Amended Humber Bridge Scheme.
Hull City Council recently adopted an amended scheme for the construction of a bridge across the River Humber, the estimated cost being £1,500,000, which is to be raised by the corporation and advanced to the Bridge Board. No Local London Licensing.
• The London County Council generalpurposes committee states that the question of the transfer of any function of the council to metropolitan borough councils, under section 64 of the Local Government Act, 1929, has been left to the judgment of the Minister of Health, upon the basis of certain general principles approved both by the council and by the Metropolitan Boroughs' Standlug Joint Committee. Therefore, it has not seen its way to adopt a suggestion made by the Hackney and Stoke Newington Chamber of Commerce that the work carried out at present by the council with regard to the issue of motor driving and Road Fond licences should be transferred to metropolitan borough councils. • Saving 25. 84. a Ton on Refuse. collection Costs.
In the Manchester Health and Hygiene Exhibition, now being held at the City Hall, Deansgate, Manchester, Manchester Corporation has a stand cn which is featured an S.D. Freighter dustless rat= collector. It is explained that the cost of removing a ton of refuse by this vehicle is 7s. 11d., as compared with 10s. 7d. by horsed cart.
The exhibit is intended to give an idea of the method of collection and disposal of household refuse in the city of Manchester.
A Loss to Bradford.
We regret to learn of the death ef Mr. Fred Marsden, city engineer and surveyor of Bradford, and president of the National Association of Local Government Officers. He was educated at Bradford Technical College and, in 1893, entered the office of the city surveyor, becoming deputy surveyor in 1908 and city engineer and -surveyor during the course of the war. lie had several extensive road schemes in haul for Bradford, the whole of his municipal experience being with that city.
West Bromwich Wins Stirk Trophy. The Stirk ambulance trophy, given by Mr. J. H. Stirk, JP.. M.Inst.T., chairman of the East Midland Traffic Commissioners, for competition among the ambulance teams of the transport departments of the Midlands, was presented last week to the West Bromwich
(Staffs) Transport Dept. Mr. Stirk was unable' through illness, personally to make the presentation, so his place was taken by the Mayor of West Bromwich, Councillor C. B. Adams.
New Link in North Circular Road. At a recent meeting of the highways committee of Middlesex County Council it was reported that there now remained only two sections of the North Circular Road to be completed in the county, and that portion of the road between Bounds Green Road and Colney Hatch Lane was now nearing completion.
The section of road in question is almost a mile long, and, apart from the road works, has involved several important feats of engineering, including the construction of the bridge to carry the London and North Eastern Railway track over the road. This bridge has a square span of 70 ft, a length of 366 ft., and it is 37 ft above the road level. The cost of this bridge approaches £140,000.
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should have attached to it the name of Sir Charles Piukham, the chairman of the highways committee, and recommends designating it Pinkham Way.
L.C.C. Amends Wage Schedule.
Amendments to the council's list of weekly wages for motor operatives have been made, as follow, by the contracts committee of the London County Council :—Drivers of motors up to 15 cwt., Ms.; 15 cwt.-2 tons, 63s.; 2-5 tons, 69s.; over 5 tons, 73s. Steamer drivers, 72s.; steamer mates .(18 years of age and over), 59s. Fire Pump Wanted in Egypt.
The Commercial Secretary to the Residency, Egypt, reports that the Ministry of the Interior (Municipalities and Local Commissions Section) is calling for tenders, which have to be presented in Egypt by March 16, for the supply of two motor fire-pumps mounted on two-wheeled chassis equipped with pneumatic tyres. Those in a position to offer products of United Kingdom manufacture can obtain fuller .partieuliars from the Department of Overseas Trade, 35, Old Queen Street, London, S.W.1, reference GX12245 being quoted.