Fire-Brigade Matters.
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Dundee's nee motor fire-tender and P111131) is to be purchased from Argylls. Ltd., of Alexandria, at a total cost of U,085.
A Dennis engine with turbine pump, at a tender price of £930, has now been definitely purchased by the King's Norton U.D.C.
Messrs. Shand, Mason and Co. have purchased the old manual machine from Bromlev, for £30; the horsed first-aid machine has also been sold by tins Council.
The New York (U.S.A.) Fire Department has issued instructions that horse-drawn plant is to be replaced by motor-propelled plant with the leastpossible delay.
The. Barrow-in-Furness Town Council, to whose intentions we have made various references in earlier issues, will now receive tenders for a petrol motor fire-engine, with a pumping capacity of from 350 to 450 gallons per minute, on or before the 23rd inst.
The Mayor of Swansea, speaking at a public banquet at the Hotel Metropole, Swansea; a fortnight ago, pressed the opinion that the Borough should have a motor fire-engine, and that county councils generally should make like purchases.
Instead of New Pipes.
Owieg to the frequent bursting of water pipes in Elberfeld (Rhine Proviece), the Town Council has resolved to 3petel £1,000 on an automobile, equipped with a pump operated by the eugine, for emptying cellars and lowlevel rooms of inundations caused by pi peleaku ge.
Birkenhead Town Council is about to purchase a second motor fire-engine and escape carrier. It will also purchnse a motor ambnlance, following the exemple of Liverpool.
Why Delay the Matter?
Mr. .1. A. Hounsom, the captain of the -Eastbourne Fire Brigade, who is backed by the Watch Committee, is about to purchase a combined fireescape and hose cart, together with 600 ft. of canvas hose, and three fire call-boxes, butt a sub-committee is of opinion that the matter of the purchase of motor fire-equipment can be deferred for the present. Manufacturers will do well to " keep an eye " upon Eastbourne.
Front-driven Electrics.
One of the new Cedes front-wheeldriven electric motor fire-tenders is shown below out during instruction drill with some of the staff from the Wandsworth (West Hill) station. The bodywork is by Bayleys, Ltd., and, when the vehicle is in service, an escape will be added to the equipment. The colossal nature of the fore-part of the car is apparentmore especially so in comparison to the constable standing by. Mr. Otto Kaes, of the Austrian Daimler Motor Co., Ltd.. of 15, Coekspur Street, S.W., which company is supplying the electric vehicles to the L.C.C., is at the wheel. The provision of Never-Skid covers on the tires will be noticed in the illustration.