Municipal Purchases and Proposals.
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CAERPHILLY Urban District Council is seeking powers to establish motorbus services.
The tramways committee of the Glum= Corporation is obtaining tenders for the supply of seven singledeck motorbuses.
• COVENTRY Corporation is to provide additional fire-brigade' equipment, consequent upon the extension of the borough boundaries.
• PENZANCE Corporation has prepared a scheme for the provision of a parking place at a cost of £2,300. Accommodation will be provided for 60 vehicles.
LOWESTOFT CC/UM:Lion has accepted the tender of the United Automobile Services, Ltd., at £390, for the supply of a Morris-Commercial motor ambulance.
PLYMOUTH Corporation has asked the borough treasurer and the tramways manager to report as to the practicability of establishing a motor service in connection with the thin-sport department for the use of the eouncil committees and officers.
HAMPTON Urban District Council has received tenders for the supply of different types of motor fire-engine, equipped with first-aid appliances, pump and fire-escape, and has asked the chairman and surveyor, with the chief officer and other brigade officials, to inspect four of the engines tendered for, and te report to the committee.
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LAIVESTOVT Corporation is considering the purchase of three additional motorbuses.
WAnwicse County Council has empowered the county surveyor to purchase five light motor lorries at a cost of about £2,000.
WEMBLEY Urban District Council requires a Bioko 2-211-ton tipping lorry for the collection of house refuse and tenders have to be delivered by March 5th.
CELESTES/4E1,D Corporation & has authorized the sewage works manager to obtain a Morris-Commercial 1-ton lorry for use at the sewage-disposal works, at an estimated cost of £335.
Tke tramways committee of the BRA_DFORD Corporation has accepted the tender of Oswald Tillotson, Ltd., for the !supply of a Morris-Commercial 30cwt. chassis.
HAW ARDEN Rural District 00u/tell is inviting tenders for the supply of a Morris-Commercial ambulance and a Morris-Commercial Van for the conveyance of fever patients. Tenders have to he delivered to the Council Offices, Broughton, Chester, by February 29th,
It is stated that the HASTINGS AND Sr. LEONARDS Town Council has accepted the design of the proposed trolley-bus to be fret in service, and has accepted an offer from the tramways company to pay. £21,000 towards the cost of reinstatement of roads.
KENT County Council recommends the purchase of two rubber-tyred Fotlen steam wagons with tipping bodies at £900 each.
The LONDON County Council is to construct a permanent ambulance station at Tierbrand Street, Bloomsbury, at a cost of 12,346.
ROCHDALE Corporation is asking for tenders for a Vulcan 30-ewt. lorry for the cleansing department. Tenders have to be delivered by February 27th.
The tramways committee of the BIRMINGHAM Corporation has arranged to extend the Yardley Wood motorbus service so soon as requisite road widenins's are effected.
CHESTERFIELD Corporation has permitted the transport manager to give evidence on behalf of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Tramway Co. on its promotion of a Bill to obtain powers to run trolley-buses.
STowm-ost-TnENT Watch Committee has instrncted Mr. E. B. Sharpley, the town clerk, to notify proprietors that it is proposed to consider the restriction of the number of licences granted for vehicles engaged on tours.
At a meeting of the ISLE OF ELY County Council the county surveyor reported that Boots Bridge on tho Wimblington-lVfanea Road has been declared by the engineer of the Middle Level Commissioners as unsafe for traffic exceeding 2 tons in weight.