Local Proceedings.
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Penzance Corporation is to obtain quotations for the supply of a motor lawn mower.
Warwick Corporation has decided to purchase a 1-ton Ford tipping lorry at a price of £147.
Sheffield Corporation has empowered the hospitals committee. to purchase a new motor ambulance.
Reigate Rural District Council is seeking a loan for the purchase of a motor-cesspool emptier.
York Corporation is seeking sanction for a loan of £3,300 for the purchase of three motor omnibuses.
Oldham Corporation Watch Committee has decided to obtain quotations for the supply of a motor ambulance.
The highways committee of the Watford Corporation recommends the purchase of a motor lorry at a cost of £596.
Ripon Corporation has arranged to purchase a motor ambulance in conjunction with the joint hospital committee.
Stoke-on-Trent Corporation is to obtain tenders for a motor vehicle for the cleansing -department at a cost of about £550.
Sheffield Watch Committee has accepted the tender of Ernest W. Hatfield, Ltd., at £460, for the supply of a 30-cwt. motor lorry.
Carlisle Watch Committee has accepted the tender of the County Garage Co., Ltd., for the supply of a new motor ambulance at a cost of £678.
Sheffield Corporation, which already owns a number of Guy buses, has recently ordered a fleet of pneumatictyred low load-line 30-seaters of the same make.
South Shields Corporation has authorized the purchase of a Ford road tractor and a tipping trailer at a cost of £475 and a 1-ton motor lorry at a cost of £240.
The highways committee of the Stoke-on-Trent Corporation recommends the purchase of two streetsweeping machines at a total cost of about £2,000.
Chelsea Borough Council has recently ordered a Yorkshire gully emptier. This machine will be one of the first to be supplied with the makers' new circular sludge tank.
South Shields Corporation has accepted the tender of Messrs. .T. Teesdale and Co., at 1555, for the supply of a2-ton petrol lorry for the electricity department.
C24 Gellygaer Urban District Council is to purchase a new motor ambulance.
Cardiff City Council has just approved a committee recommendation that £8,000 be expended on the purchase of seven new buses.
The tramways committee of the Birmingham City Council invites tenders for the supply of 30 double-deck, topcovered motorbus bodies. Further particulars of this authority's requirements can be obtained from the Tramways Offices, the Council House, Congreve Street, Birmingham.
Southampton Corporation invites tenders for the supply of a motor fireengine of 500-600-gallons capacity, and these have to be delivered not later than May 5th. Further particulars concerning the corporation's requirements can be obtained from the Chief Officer, Central Fire Station, St. Mary's Road, Southampton.
Repeat Orders for Baileys.
Bailey's Industrial Motors, Ltd., Yoker, Glasgow, have recently received a number of repeat orders from prominent motor-vehicle users. On the goods-carrying side they are building 3-ton and 4-tonners for S. Allsopp and Sons, Ltd., and Schweppes, Ltd. ; 2-tonners for Messrs. C. and F. Read and South Eastern Motors, and a 30cwt. lorry for the Cannon Iron Foundries, of Bilston.
So far as passenger vehicles are concerned, the company have in hand 20 and 30-seaters for Messrs. Meiklejohn and Harvey, of Glasgow, and for Messrs. J. Tennant and Sons, of Arm adale.
Another "General" Garage.
Operations have recently commenced at Langley Road, Slough, in connection with the erection of a new garage for the London General Omnibus Co., Ltd. The site chosen for the new garage, which, when completed, will have a floor area of 6,500 sq. ft., stands back from the roadway and will be connected with the main thoroughfare by a short private road. At the outset accommodation is being arranged for 15 buses, but the garage will be capable of extension to house a larger number of vehicles, if found necessary. The fuel storage tanks to be installed will have a total capacity of 3.500 gallons, and 9pecia1 facilities for cleaning the buses will be provided. The buses working from this garage will ho mainly concentrated on routes serving the Windsor district. Sales Chances in Japan.
According to a report lately to hand from Tokyo, the old stock of commercial vehicles imported during the period of the temporary remission of duty, immediately following the 1923 earthquake, are gradually being worked off, present estimates indicating that there are only about 100 such lorries remaining on hand. There is a brisk demand for light delivery vehicles, whilst it is expected that the widening of the principal streets of Tokyo, operations on which have recently been commenced, will provide an additional market for all kinds of commercial vehicle in connection with the extensive building operations that have been projected.
A. Dennis Fleet Overseas.
The 21F-ton Dennis lorry which is shown in an illustration on this page covered 17,000 miles in the service of Motor Transport (Uganda) Ltd. before it was used in conjunction with a trailer. In recording this mileage, the vehicle dealt with a pay load of 6,000 tons. Since the trailer has been hauled, a further 5,009 miles have been run, and, in spite of the fact that 2i tons have been carried on the trailer as well as on the hauling vehicle, the outfit has given good savice. The users have two other vehicles of the same make in their service, and the three lorries have run an aggregate mileage of 38,000.
Dennis Bros., Ltd., of Guildford, have just received, along with the picture we reproduce, a letter in which it is stated that : "No difficulty whatever has been experienced (with the three vehicles) and there has not been a single involuntary stop."
Although the principle of overloading is not to be advocated, we think the information supplied by the company's agents in Kenya speaks well for the sturdiness and power of Dennis productions and of their suitability for operating under overseas conditions.
Motorbuses in Berlin.
At a recent meeting in Berlin, Herr D. Quars, the director of the Berlin General Omnibus Co., gave some particulars of the motorbuses running in that city. The majority of the vehicles have a capacity for 54 passengers, the weight of the body of each vehicle being about 39 cwt. or approximately 80 lb. per passenger. The buses are on the road 19 hours per day, during which they cover about 150 miles.