In Public Service.
Page 12
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
Bridlington T, C. hopes shortly to acquire a motor fire-engine.
Oldham Town Council has received L.G.B. sanction for its motor-fire-engine loan of £1030.
Barnet U.D.C. is about to purchase a motor fire-engine. Its possession, we hope, will convert the local magistrates.
The Leith Corporation has bought a Halley tower wagon, and the Glasgow Corporation has bought two more tower wagons of the same make.
Mr, Walter Stirrup, of Blackburn, has obtained the first premium offered by the Blackburn Corporation for the plans of the new central fire-station in that town.
The Southend-on-Sea Corporation has ordered an electricallydriven motorbus from Edison Accumulators, Ltd., and other motorbus chassis from W. A. Stevens, Ltd., and Sidney Straker and Squire, Ltd.
The Northern General Transport Co. Ltd., the registration of which body was reported in our issue of the llth ult., is concerned with the amalgamation of the Gateshead and District Tramways Co., Ltd., the Tynemouth and District Electric Traction Co., Ltd., and the Jarrow and District Electric Traction Co., Ltd.
Oxford now has a competitive service of motorbuses, and 15 handsome Daimler vehicles are doing all that is necessary in the city, to the considerable advantage of the district, and with a swamping effect upon the horse tramcars. It is anticipated that there will also be an invasion of Tilling-Stevens petrolelectric vehicles.
CO The receipts of the National Steam Car Co., Ltd., for the week ended 21st December, 1913, were 23960. This shows an increase of 1627 over the corresponding period of last year.
The receipts of the Tramways (M.E.T.) Omnibus Co., Ltd., for the week ended 20th December, 1913, were 28987, and for the Gearless Omnibus Co., Ltd., 2462. These show an increase of 2232 and a decrease of i;30 respectively, as against the previous week.
The Westminster City Council has formally adopted the recommendation of its Highways Committee, arid in future motor vehicles will be generally substituted for horses in the Council's work.
Todmorden and Abingdon have to be recorded as towns which employ motorbuses to tow steam fireengines. The claim of expediency may exist, but we doubt if the arrangement is desirable or safe.
Kettering U.D.C. has referred back the subject of motor fire-fighting appliances to its General Purposes Committee. It is probable that two motor fire-engines will be purchased, in the near future, and that a scheme for a new station will be adopted at the same time.