Municipal Purchases and Proposals.
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WAnnueerrou Corporation has decided to seek powers to establish bus services outside the borough.
WARRINGTON Corporation has decided to purchase a 31-ton electric vehicle for the cleansing department.
BOLTON Corporation is to re-surface and widen Lostock Lane, so as to render it snitable for motorbus traffic, at a cost of £4,820.
• MANCHESTER Corporation has accepted the tender of Parker's, Ltd., for the supply of a tipping lorry for the cleansing department.
The tramways committee of the WARareoros: Corporation has accepted the tender of the Associated Daimler Co., Ltd., for the supply of two motorbtises.
HASTINGS Watch Committee recommends acceptance of the tender of Butler and Phillips, Ltd., St. Leonards, for the supply of a Thornycroft 30-cwt. chassis at £850.
The tramways 'committee of the BRADFORD Corporation has accepted the tender of the Bristol Tramways and carriage Co., Ltd., to supply twelve fjeater motorbuses complete for the sum of £15,600.
SHEEFIELD Corporation has asked its health committee to consider the question of using a type of refuse-collecting vehicle which will be perfectly dustproof and so obviate the nuisance and risk to health caused by the use of the ordinary appliance.
The tramways committee of the SALroan Corporation recommends accept; ance of the following tenders for 24 motorbuses :—Associated Daimler Co., Ltd., six at i1.,220 each; Dennis Bros., Ltd., six at £1,263 each; Earlier Motors, Ltd., six at £1,238 each; Leyland Motors, Ltd., six at £1,270 each.
The tramways committee of the OLDHAM Corporation is applying to the Ministry of Transport for sanction to borrow £39,790 to cover the cost of providing 14 new buses which are to be used in place of the tramcars on the Lees Road section, as well as to cover the cost of removing the existing tramway track in Lees Road (from Glodwick Road to the borough boundary) and providing a new negative feeder in Yorkshire Street. •
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SIDMOUTH Urban District Council is inviting tenders for the supply of a
30-cwt. motor lorry. .
Lzuns Corporation is seeking sanction to borrow £900 for the purchase of a motor lorry for the printing department.
BIRKENHEAD Corporation has voted £283 for the provision of a MorrisCommercial 30-cwt. vehicle for the gas department.
The tramways committee ofthe PORTSMOUTH Corporation recommends acceptanceof the following tenders :— Karrier Motors, Ltd., for the. supply of
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.six x-wheeled chassis for double-deck buses at £1,217 each.; English Electric Co., Ltd., for five 61-seater doubledeck top-covered bus bodies at £70.5 each; Dennis Bros.; Ltd., for eight E-type low-load-line chassis for • single'deck saloon buses • at £902 each; 1?avidson (Trafford Park), Ltd., for eight 36-seater single-deck saloon bus bodies at £443 each.
'WARRINGTON Corporation has decided to purchase a motor ambulance.
WEST RIDING County Council is allocating £2,000 for the purchase of nine Motorcars for road surveyors.
BIRKENHEAD Corporation is to obtain tenders for a 25-wt. motor vehicle for the electricity department
ROTHERHAM Education Committee has 'authorized the purchase of a motor mower for theplaying fields . at a cost of £66.
BRADFORD Corporation is seeking powers to open a trolley-bus, route on the Shipley and Brantley main:road in the urban districb a Shipley.
BIRKENHEAD Corporation has accepted, the tender of Bromilow and Edwards, Ltd., of Bolton, to install a hydraulic tipping gear on a Dennis lorry at a cost of £70.
• The estimates of the roads committee of the LLANELLY Borough Council for the year commencing April 1st next include an allocation to provide for the purchase of a new motor fire-engine.
DOUGLAS (I.O.M.) Corporation has amended regulations governing grants of licences for motor coaches to read as follow :—" No new motor chars-hbanes will be licensed to hold more than 20 persons."
The tramways committee • of the BRADFORD Corporation has accepted the following tenders for the supply of parcel vans required by the education committee for the transport of food :— Oswald Tillotson Ltd., one Leyland 2iton van for £719, Hnd one Morris-Commercial 30-35-cwt. van for £364.
The works committee of the H.AcnNET Borough Council recommends acceptance of the quotation of Karrier Motors, Ltd., for the supply of an RSCtype sprinkler, road sweeper and refuse collector at the price of £986. A similar machine is to be purchased at the same price at a later date.
At a meeting of the B_uaisr.r.v Watch Committee a letter was read from the Barnsley And District Traction Co., Ltd., intimating its intention to withdraw its application in respect of double-decker motorbuses, in view of the difficulty of negotiating some low bridges in the neighbourhood.