Fire-Brigade Matters.
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The Fire Brigade Committee of Watford Urban District Council reports having considered the question of motor fire appliances for the fire brigade, and it has instructed the captain to obtain information from other towns on the subject.
At the last meeting of the Hornsey Borough Council it was decided to purchase two motor fire-engines, one combined with an escape and the other equipped with ladders, both to be of high-speed capacity, at a. cost of R2000, to replace the. present horsed vehicles at. the central station.
The Latest Cedes Plant.
Our description and illustration, on this and the foregoing pages, will be recognized to concern a remarkable example of British manufacture. This example of new enterprise in fire-brigade circles should arouse considerable interest, and we are happy to be able to present the first particulars to our steadily-increasing circle of friends and supporters in the fire-brigade world.
Watson's Castings.
Many officers of fire brigades are at a loss to know where to go for motor castings, or for other automobile and internal-combustion engine work. One firm that can do all jobs of the kind very well is Messrs. Henry Watson and Sons, of Highbridge Works, Walkergate, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Particulars can be obtained direct from the works, or from Mr. Ernest T. White, 0r 28, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.
Dennis at Copenhagen.
We have received particulars of a Dennis ten-hour test of hard continuous running at full pressure, when the turbine pump was delivering through three jets, each of in. diameter, at 135 lb. pressure on the pump. This order, we may recall, was obtained by Dennis Bros., Ltd,, in face of considerable French and German competition, and largely owing to the satisfactory working of another Dennis engine—that at Gentofte, near Copenhagen. The test to which we refer was abnormal.