Fire-Brigade Matters.
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Co-operation at Stafford.
Stafford Rural District Council is prepared to contribute the sum of 2200 towards the purchase of a motor fire-engine by the Stafford Town Council, and the matter is now before the Local Government Board. The Rural Council will not bear any part of the expenses of maintenance and it will receive a discount of 10 per cent. on the usual charges for attendance at any fire. Furthermore, the claims of any resident in the rural district will rank second only to the claims of a resident in Stafford itself.
Dundee's Second Argyll.
Argyll fire vehicles are steadily increasing in popularity. The Argyll tender, supplied some time ago to the Huddersfield Corporation, has already saved several valuable mills from destruction. The engine and pump now being finished at the Argyll works for the Dundee Corporation embodies several entirely-new features, which, through the courtesy of the Dundee Corporation, which already owns an Argyll, will be publicly demonstrated before the vehicle is handed over. German Activity.
The Breslau Corporation, which already possesses automobiles for fire-extinguishing work, has placed with the Daimler Marienfelde Gesellschaft an order for sufficient vehicles of various kinds to reorganize the whole rolling-stock on a self-propelled basis. The Strasburg and GOrlitz Corporations, too, have ordered Daimler-Marienfelde vehicles for their brigades.
Wimbledon Moves.
The Superintendent of the Wimbledon Fire Brigade has drawn up a report which speaks of the efficiency of motor fire-engines pnd escapes, and the desirability of substituting two petrol motors, each fitted with pump and first-aid apparatus, escape and accessories, for the two horsed fire-engines and escapes now at the Central Fire Station. He puts the cost of two sets of motor appliances at 22,000, and estimates that the annual cost of such appliances, including repayment of loan and interest, insurance, increased wages for drivers. etc.. would be £490 10s., nil against 2492, the Present annual average cost of the horse-drawn appliances. The Town Clerk is to arrange with firms for motor fire-engines manufactured by them to be brought to Wimbledon for inspection by members of the Council.
Morris Engines.
The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor R, J. M'Mordie, the Chairman and members of the Police Committee, and a number of comnsissioners of the Belfast Water Board, witnessed further official demonstrations with the Corporation's Morris fire-engines, on the 8th inst. These concerned the third engine of this make, and the demonstration was satisfactory in all respects, including the deep-lift tests from the Spencer Dock. We learn that the St. Helens Corporation has been making severe use of its Morris engine, which, on delivery, successively went through a nO-mile test, a four-hour continuous pumping test with two 1 in, jets, and another series of tests for height of jets We understand that a duplicate of the Belfast and St. Helens engines will shortly be ready for Manchester.