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Fire Brigade Matters.

Hendon t). C. will shortly invit2 tenders for another motor fires engine.

Wimborne U.D.C. has instructed its Fire Brigade Committee to report upon the motorization of its fire brigade. Chatham Town Council is to purchase a motor tractor and three trucks irom A.veling and Porter, Ltd.. at a cost -of £635.

Chester City Council requires tenders, on or before the 24th inst., fora petrol-driven motor lireengine, with pump, first-aid equipment, and 50 ft. escape.

Twickenham U.D.C. requires tenders, on or before the 12th inst., for a 100-450-gallon petrol motor fire-engine, complete with pump, a 50 ft. fire escape, and first-aid equipment.

Kingston U.D.C. has appointed a sub-committee to visit the works of Shand, Mason and Co., Ltd., Merryweather and Co., Ltd., Dennis Bros., Ltd., and H. Simonis and Co., Ltd.

Tottenham District Council is in abandon horses for fire-brigade work, in favour of motors. "ft is proposed shortly to invite tenders for reconstructing the existing horsed escape tender into a motor tire escape and for a new motor fire-escape tender complete, as an alter native scheme.

L.C.C. Routes.

The L.C.C. is proposing to extend certain of its tramway routes, but the project for connecting Hammer5elith Broadway to 'Shepherd's Bush, via the Hammersmith Road, ttolland Road and Uxbridge Road savours inure of the creation of a new route than of a linking scheme. Other proposals are to -connect Hampstead Road with Oxford Street, Euston Road with Harrow Road, and Theobalds Road with To Court Road. There will undoubtedly he a severe Parliamentary fight when the Bill is presented.

Walsall Tramways Committee has asked the council's permission to spend a sum not exceeding zn100 on the purchase of motorbuses for the routes to be authorised by the Corporation Bill.

The United Automobile Services, Ltd., of the Great Eastern Garage, Lowestoft, is consistently developing local routes ; the latest instance is a service of motor chars-a-bancs between Ipswich and Felixstowe. We observe, too, that Messrs. G. R. flounce and W. G. Miller, of Cromer, have instituted regular mol or char-a-banes services between Sheringham, Cromer and M an desley.

British Automobile Traction.

The Macclesfield branch of the British Automobile Traction Co., Ltd., appears already to have established its local motorbus services, by arrangement with the Macclesfield Corporation, on a comprehensive basis. The Macclesfield depot was opened in November last. and two Daimler motorbuses took up the initial services, the-aggregate daily mileage at that time being 104 miles. The mileage at the present moment, with additional vehicles, reaches 1190 miles per day, and the services link up Macclesfield, Leek, Latchford. Bux

ton, Cheadle and other places. There is a regular service over the famous Cat and Fiddle Hill into Buxton.

Representatives of many Urban District Councils in the country might do well to visit Macclesfield in order to witness the satisfactory manner in which local stage-carriage services can be provided, without big capital expenditure, by means of motorbuses.

The Renard Commercial Motor Co., Ltd., is to be wound no voluntarily. Mt H. ,A. Grimsduck, of 82, Victoria Street, S.W., is the liquidator. '

Wolstanton Urban District Council at their last meeting referred back a recommendation authorising the granting of eight motorbus licences to the Potteries Electric Traction Co., on the ground that children under twelve were not carried at half price. It was contended that the company should have an undertaking with the council in the matter.

Deptford Borough Council has been recommended to communicate with the L.C.C. asking it to promote legislation on behalf ef the borough councils requiring motorbus companies to contribute towards the cost of road maintenance, on the principle already sanctioned in the Middlesex Gounty Council's Great Western Road Bill. The Borough Council's Works Committee think that such legislation should provide for the contributions to be paid to the several Borough Councils according to the car mileage run by the buses over the roads in each of the boroughs.


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