Municipal Purchases and Proposals
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Belfast Corporation is buying two A.E.C. ro ey Me& Wallasey Corporation is buying four Leyland single-deck buses.
Hull Corporation is buying 20 A.E.C. Regent double-deck buses.
Liverpool Corporation is to add six A.E.C. Regal single-deckers to its fleet of 180 vehicles of this make. Wallasey Bay Committee has accepted the tender of Leyland Motors, Ltd., for the supply of four single-deck buses. G lasgow Police Committee has accepted the offer by the Government to provide a Merryweather turntable escape ladder. Dartford Corporation recommends the acceptance of the tender submitted by B. S. Geiston, Ltd., for the supply of a Dennis gully-emptier. Poplar Electricity Committee recommends the acceptance ot the tender of Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., for the supply five electric vehicles.
G onisbrough Urban District Council requires tenders for the supply of an ambulance and a trailer-pump unit for the fire brigade. Further details may be obtained from the engineer and surveyor, anti tenders close on April 3.
sournernouth Borough Council is in the. market for a dual-purpose fire-engine, fuller details of which may be obtained from the chief officer of the fire brigade, Central Fire Station, Holdenburst Road, Bournemouth; the closing date is April 12. Chester City Council invites tenders for the supply of a six-cylinder 500-650 O.O.tri• fire./ engine, with pump amidships and semilimousine-type body. The superintendent of the brigade, Northgate Street, Chester, can supply fuller details, and tenders close on April 12. Barking Borough Council invites tenders for the supply of five 25-cwt. and one 3-ton Fordaon vehicles, also a mechanical horse and low-loading trailer. Full details may be obtained from the borough engineer and surveyor. Town Hall, Barking, and tenders close on April 8. Leicester City Council is inviting tenders for the supply of five 6-7-cubic-yd. low-loading refuse collectors. a 2-ton three-way hydraulic tipping lorry, a 900-gallon fl-shaped water tank, suitable for fitting to it, a 750-gallongully emptier and two water-tank vehicles, Fuller details may be obtained from the city engineer and surveyor, Town Hall, Leicester, and tenders close on April 4. Huntly Town Council is to buy a trailer fire IATIrtag Rural District Council proposes to purchase a fire-engine. Chester Corporation is to obtain tenders for the supply of a fire-engine. Exeter Corporation is to obtain tenders for the supply of a 2-ton tipping lorry. Denny and Dunipace Town Council has agreed to purchase a Dennis fire-engine. Stoke-on-Trent Corporation is to obtain tenders for a motorran for the electricity department.
Chester Transport Committee has obtained sanction to borrow 410,542 for the purchase of six buses.
Leeds Highways Committee invites tenders for the supply of two motor footpath rollers, the closing date being March 30. Wimbledon Corporation has accepted the tender of the Wimbledon Motor Works, Ltd., for the supply of a Morris-Commercial 2-ton lorry. Rugby Corporation requires a 25-30-cwt. petrol lorry with hand-operated end-tipping body; the closing date for tenders is March 27. Islington Borough Co.. linen recommends the acdeptance of the tender of the Capital Motor Co., -Ltd., for the supply of a Bedford-Carrimare low-loading vehicle. Wirral Urban District Council requires a 1-1M-ton vehicle capable of drawing a trailer fire pump. The clerk to the council, Heswall, Wirral, Cheshire, can supply fuller details, and tenders close on April 3. Downham and District Joint Fire Brigade Committee requires tenders for the supply of a fire tender, mounted on a 2-ton chassis and suitable for towing a 475 g.p.m. trailer pump; the closing date is April 11. Stockton-en-Tees Town Council has accepted the tender of Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd., for the supply of six bus chassis and the tender of the Craven Railway Wagon and Carriage Co., for the supply of bus bodiet.
Rebingten Borough Council is in the market for a tower wagon and three lorries. Fuller details may be obtained from the borough engineer and surveyor, Brackenwood, Higher Bebington, and tenders close on April 11.
Battle Rural District Connell is in the market for a 500 g.p.m. fire-engine, Ole, first-aid tenders and three 450-500 .p.m. trailer pumps. Fuller details may be obtained from the chief surveyor, The Council' Offices, The Watch Oak, Battle, and tenders close on
.April 12. •