Fire-Brigade Matters.
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Vienna's New Purchases.
The Vienna authorities are experimenting with additonal self-propelled vehicles for the local fire brigade and the police.
Amsterdam's Safeguards.
The Amsterdam Fire Brigade, some weeks ago, gave a special turn-out for the guidance of the European surveyor of the Car and General Insurance Corporation, Ltd., which company has been asked to quote for certain risks in the city on the banks of the Zuylier Zee.
Tire Points.
Although settled adversely to the block tire, in the regions of motoromnibus and motor-lorry enterprise, it . looks as though the band type of tire would not have trade all to itself in the fire-engine world. The annual mileage is so low, compared with public-service or other commercial uses, and the question of effective grip on the road surface so important—in order that sideslip may be avoided in spite of hard driving, thatan interesting contest between twin-section and block tires nuty be eonlidently anticipated. The Latest Dennis.
A delivery capacity of 1,000 gallons of water per minute, which is achieved by the latest, 100 lep., six-cylinder, Dennis, motor fire-engine 'with Gwynne-Sargeant turbine pumps, marks an important stage in the development of the fire-engine business by motor engineers. We illustrate the machine in question, and our readers will be interested to know that it is now on the way to Auckland, New Zealand.
County Organization.
Knaresberough 'Rural District Council continues its endeavours to negotiate terms with the Harrogate Fire Brigade for the attendance of the Borough's e-xtinguishing plant outside the boundaries of the well-known Yorkshire Spa. Pending the general establishment of county fire brigades, by the county councils themselves, in favour of which we have argued for some two years, end in which direction there are encouraging indications of movement, rural areas arc too often dependent upon the courtesy of cities and boroughs, which situation can only he regarded as a highlyunsatisfactory one for everybody.