Municipal Purchases and Proposals
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The cleansing committee of BURNLEY Corporation is to obtain tenders for the supply of two lorries.
The sewerage committee of BRADFORD Corporation recommends the purchase of a Fordson tractor at a cost of £150.
BELFAST Corporation requires a firesalvage machine and two ambulances ; tenders have to be delivered by October 24.
The transport committee of BARROWIN-FURNESS Corporation is considering whether to purchase five new single. deck buses.
WIDNES Corporation has placed a repeat order for a Crossley Condor doubledecker, equipped with the company's sixcylindered oil engine.
BARROW-IN-FURNESS Corporation is purchasing from Simpsons, Ltd., a Morris-Commercial Leader 3-ton lorry, costing £568, and a Raleigh threewheeler, casting £79.
Wolatsu Urban District Council is inviting tenders for the supply of a 2-3ton lorry with metal-lined three-way tipping body. Tenders have to be submitted by October 22.
The highways committee of CHELTENHAM Corporation has accepted the tender, at £258, of the Victory Motor Co., for the supply of a tractor for the refuse-collection department.
The transport committee of Px.rmonsu Corporation has authorized the purchase of two washing machines, a bus hoist and a brake tester, for the new bus garage, at a total cost of £1,212.
It is recommended that the petrol engines of nine Of BARROW-IN-FURNESS Corporation's Crossley double -deck buses be changed for the oil type, which would effect an estimated annual saving of £2,314. The general purposes committee of Psusaows County Council has decided to buy a Morris 5-cwt. van.
EBBW VALE Urban District Council has decided to buy a Morris de luxe ambulance at a cost of £423.
The works committee of Hum, Corporation has authorized the purchase of a Morris-Commercial 1-ton lorry.
The Ministry of Health has sanctioned a loan of £950 by MALVERN Urban District Council for purchasing a new fire-engine.
STOKE-ON-TRENT Corporation suggests the expenditure of £3,200 on the purchase of • a fire-engine, including a turntable water tower.
The tramways committee of Sourn SHIELDS Corporation is to obtain quotations for the supply of a generalutility vehicle for the department.
The transport committee of MAIDSTONE Corporation is obtaining tenders, to be delivered by October 19, for the supply of two single:deck buses with oil engines.
The central purchasing committee of ACCRINGTON Corporation requires tenders for the supply of oils to its various departments; these have to be delivered by October 24.
The transport committee of PORTSMOUTH Corporation recommends the purchase of six Sparshatt Compactor refuse collectors, incorporating Dennis chassis, at a total cost of £6,500.
The transport committee of ROTHERHAM Corporation is to auk for quotations from Ransomes, Sims and jefferies, Ltd., for the supply of five trolley-bus chassis, and from Messrs. Cravens and C. H. Roe (1928), Ltd., for bodies,