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We report this week, as orie of the " Proposals and purchases by local authorities," the fact that the Electrical Committee of the South Shields Town Council has succeeded in carrying a recommendation, through its various local stages, that an application should he made to the Treasury, for sanction to borrow k185O for the purpose's of a scheme for hiring out motor vehicles. The proposal is to buy one or more battery-enuipped vehicles, and the suggestion of hiring out is but a corollary to the municipal practice of hirint, out gas-stoves, electrical radiators. etc. The departure is none the less one of significance for many readers of THE COMMERCIAL Moon. It forebodes a day of competition, in motor haulage, between the municipality and the trader. Possibilities, however, do not end there. If the electrical undertakings of various municipalities become interested in the exploitation arid sale of battery-equipped vehicles, they will, perhaps; unconsciously but none the less effe,ctually, be drawn into cotnpetitioe with petrol-vehicle and steam-vehicle manufacturers and agents. The matter is one to which the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders will undoubtedly give due attention.