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NEWBURY Corporation has decided to purchase two S.D. Freighter refuse. collection vehicles.
The electricity committee of WALLASEY Corporation has authorized the purchase of a small delivery van.
The transport committee of MORECAMBE Corporation has decided to purchase two A.E.C. double-deckers.
GLossoe Corporation is to deal with the question of the purchase of a new motor vehicle when the year's estimates are considered.
SEDGEFIELD Rural District Council has accepted the tender of Mr. John Neasham, of Darlington, for the supply of two Fordson 2-ton tipping wagons.
The general purposes committee of BARKING Corporation recommends the acceptance of the tender of Albon's Stores for the supply of an Austin ambulance.
The works committee of RAwrENSTALL Corporation has accepted the tenderof Messrs. Clark, Crankshaw and Clark for the supply of a Bedford 2-ton three-way-tipping vehicle.
The transport committee of CHORLEY Corporation has accepted the tender of Harry Williams and Co., Ltd., for the supply of a Ford 30-cwt. standard dustless refuse collector.
The works committee of WALLASEY Corporation is to obtain quotations for the supply of a Morris-Commercial 30-cwt. tipping lorry for general-purpose duty, and a 3-ton tipper for street cleansing.
The motorbus committee of EA STbourne Corporation has inspected and tested a Leyland demonstration bus with an oil engine and the latest type of torque converter, and is to consider the purchase of the vehicle.
The highways committee of ENFIELD Urban District Council:is to make provision in estimates for the purchase of a mechanical vehicle for refusecollection, and the surveyor is to obtain details of motor cesspool emptiers.
The tramways committee of WALLASEY Corporation is purchasing 11 A.E.C. buses, consisting of six Regent 48-seaters with hydraulic transmission and preselective gearboxes, and five Q-type centre-entrance 56-seaters with Roe bodies.
KIRRIEMUIR Town Council is to purchase a three-wheeled refuse collector at a cost of £335.
Further to the paragraph published in our issue dated December 15, two double-deck buses to be purchased by WEST I IARTLEPOOL Transport Committee are of Daimler make.
The motorbus committee of EASTBOURNE Corporation has called for a report as to the extra vehicles that would be required for a 31-minute service from the Archery and the station.
SHEFFIELD Corporation has orOered an Albion 30-35-cwt. lorry.
The cleansing committee of SHEFFIELD Corporation is to purchase a van.
INGATESTONE (Essex) Parish Council has arranged. to purchase a trailer fire pump.
GLASGOW Corporation is to purchase a Ford 2-ton vehicle for Stobhill Hospital.
GLASGOW Corporation is purchasing an Albion tank wagon for the chemical works department.
The highways committee of TIFTON Urban District Council is to obtain tenders for the supply of a Morris-Commercial refuse collector.
The cleansing committee of SOUTHGATE Corporation has received tenders for the supply of refuse collectors. Tests are to be carried out with the two most suitable types.
The transport committee of BOLTON Corporation has decided to purchase 10 Leyland oil-engined bus chassis, upon which will be mounted 52-seater bodies. Five coachbuilt bodies are to be bought from Brornilow and Edwards, Ltd., three of the coachbuilt type from the English Electric Co., Ltd., and two all-metal bodies from MetropolitanCamrnell-Weymann Motor Bodies, Ltd. The gas committee Of BIRKENHEAD Corporation is to invite tenders for the supply of two small Austin vans.
The cleansing committee of GL SGOW Corporation is purchasing a Harrier road sweeper and collector and an Albion gully-emptier.
The electricity committee of MANCHESTER Corporation has accepted the ten4r of Kennings, Ltd., for the supply or two Morris 5-cwt vans.
CAMBRIDGE Corporation has ordered a Merryweather 85-ft. motor turntable fire-escape with an all-steel ladder ; it is to have a 275-gallon fire-pump.
The watch committee Of MANCHESTER Corporation is to purchase a generalutility motor for the weights and measures department, for about £500.
The transport committee of MANCHESTER Corporation has accepted the tender of Crossley Motors, Ltd., for the supply of a low-height double-deck bus body.
The transport committee of MANCHESTER Corporation has accepted the tender of J. Morris (Fire Snow), Ltd., for the supply of 400.one-gallon firesnow extinguishers for buses.
NORTHAMPTON Corporation has purchased six Crossley eil-engined
buses, one of which has loud-speakers on both decks for the driver to intimate stopping-places to passengers.
BEcxENHAist Urban District Council requires a dust-c,ollecting van of about 15 cubic yards capacity, the body to be equipped with a movable floor. Tenders have to be delivered by noon cm January 15.
SOUTHAMPTON Corporation is inviting tenders for the supply of a fireengine. Further particulars may be obtained from the chief officer, Central Fire Station, St. Mary's Road, Southampton, and tenders have to be delivered by January 20.
The county roads committee of DEVON , County Council invites tenders for the supply, for the 12 months ending March 31, 1935, of motor tyres, petrol, paraffin, oils, grease, the hire of petrol-driven tipping lorries, etc. Tenders have to be delivered to the clerk to the council, Mr. Brian S. Miller, The Castle, Exeter, not later than noon on January 31.
ESSEX SEEKS ORDER. • The highways committee of Essex County Council recommends that an application be made to the Minister of Transport pursuant to Sub-section 1 of Section 46 of the Road Traffic Act, 3930, for an Order prohibiting the driving of heavy and light locomotives, motor tractors and heavy motorcars, as defined respectively by Section 2 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, and motorcars with a seating capacity exceeding seven persons, exclusive of the driver, on the unclassified road known as South Street, in the urban district of Brentwood Glasgow to Appeal.
At a meeting of the magistrates committee of Glasgow Corporation, with reference to the eecision to defend the action in the Court of Session at the instance of Robert Baird, Ltd., and certain motor-trading concerns in Glasgow, which sought to have it found that bylaws regarding petrol-filling stations made by the corporation under Section 11 of the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act, 1928, were null and void, the town clerk reported that the Lord Ordinary had decided against the corporation.
The committee, having heard the town clerk on the question of an appeal, agreed that the decision of the Lord Ordinary be appealed against in the Inner House of the Court of Session.
Garage Extensions at Manchester.
The transport committee of Manchester Corporation is to extend the Queen's Road garage at a cost of £18,000.
Another Tramways Displacement.
On Sunday next, January 7, buses will replace trams in the Cottle and Nelson areas of the Burnley, Caine and Nelson Joint Transport Committee, Sanctions for Hull Station.
The transport committee of Hull Corporation has received formal sanctions from the Minister of Health and Minister of Transport, in connection with the central bus station and garage.
Ipswich Corporation is to extend the trolleybus system to the borough boundary at a cost of 21,480 for equipment EASTBOURNE'S LORRY PARK.
At a recent meeting of the watch committee of Eastbourne Corporation,the chief constable again called attention to the problem in connection with heavy vehicles which were not able to obtain garage accommodation at night and were left on the highway. The committee agreed to provide accommodation for such vehicles at the coach station.
The chief constable suggested a charge of Is. 6d. a night for each vehicle, and pointed out that this would not conflict in a competitive sense with any of the town garages. The committee decided to fix the charge at 2s. for a trial period.
Another Gas-bus Scheme.
Pontypridd Urban District Council may replace its petrol buses by coalgas vehicles, or, as an alternative, by oilers. The council also runs trolleybuses, but it is not proposed to interfere with these. A sub-committee of the gas committee has been appointed to prepare plans for the erection of the necessary plant at Pontypridd if the idea be deemed practical,