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MUNICIPAL PURCHASES AND PROPOSALS.
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Norwich Corporation is buying a 6-7ton Clayton ca-ertype steam wagon with end-tipping body.
Lowestoft Corporation has authorized tile purchase of a motor mower at a cost of about ISO.
The bus committee of the Perry Corporation has recommended the purchase of three new -buses.
Bournemouth Corporation has authorized the Purchase of a motor road roller at a cost of about £300.
The stables committee Of the myth Corporation is farther to consider the substitution'Of road motors for horsed vehicles.
Lowestoft Corporation has ancepted the tender of Guy Motors, Ltd., for the supply of two bus chassis and arranged for local tenders for the supply of bus bodies.
Stoke-on-Trent Corporation has aeeepted the tender of the British Petroleum Co., Ltd., at 1114, for the provision of petrol-storage facilities at the gasworks. •
An addition has just been made to the Newcastle -Cornoration bus fleet by the purchase of an Associated Daimler 54-seater double-decker of the open-top type on pneumatic tyres.
Bournemouth Corporation has asked the tramways manager to arrange for a demonstration of vehicles by various makers with 'a view to the establishment of a motorbus service at Bath Hill.
A joint committee of the Bideford Town and Rural Councils and the Northam Urban" District Council has decided to order a new fire-engine costing £1,175 and a 150-gallon trailer porno costing £448.
4126 Middlesbrough Corporation is seeking powers to run buses in the Eaton district.
Woodford Urban District Council is to purchase a motor mower at a cost of £60.
Leeds Corporation is to install a 500gallon petrol tank and 'point) at the Manor Road depot at a cost of about £100.
Leeds Corporation has accepted the tender of Guy Motors. Ltd., for the supplyof a sludge van for the tramways department.
The tramways committee of the Bournemouth Corporation is inviting quotations fer the supply of six 20seater low-loading single-deck petrol buses.
Leeds Corporation has accepted the tender of the Hunelet Motor Co., Ltd., at £247 10s., for the provision of a 141,000-gallon petrol storage tank for the tramways department.
Croydon Corporation has accepted the tender of the Sheillex Motor Co. for a 2-ton Sheffiex chassis, fitted with hydraulic three-way tipping gear and specified equipment, for the sum of £432. • Douglas (I.O.M.) Corporation has asked the tramways manager to report before the eommencement of next winter on the running of motorbuses, in lieu of the horsed service, on the front during the winter months.
At a meeting of the Stoke-on-Trent Watch Committee the town clerk reported that Mr. James Mayer has appealed to the Ministry of Transport against the refusal of the council to grant him a licence to run an omnibus on the Henley-Bali Green route. St. Pancras Borough Council is to provide a petrol tank and pump at the highways depot at a cost of about £115,
The tramways committee of the-Warrington Corporation is inviting tenders for the supply Of two double-deck motorbuses.
Gravesend Watch Committee is to obtain tenders for a motorcycle to be kept in readiness at the fire station for use in eases of emergency.
Croydon Corporation has sold 25 tramcars which were used on the discontinued Adcliscombe route to Thomas • Ward, Ltd., Sheffield, for Swansea Corporation has accepted the tender of Messrs. Jones, Clarke and J enkins, Swansea, for an Albion lorry at 1832, and the tender of Mr. F. W. ,Tones, Mumbles, for a Vulcan lorry at £ 465.
Shipley Urban District Council has granted an application of Messrs. Blythe and Berwick for permission to commence a bus service from Keighley to Leeds, via Thackley, with 'permission to run temporarily from Saltaire to Leeds.
Carlisle Corporation has decided that a petrol pump be erected at the gas works and new electricity works at an estimated cost of £190, and that the tender of the Beitish Petroleum Co., Ltd., for the supply of petrol to sueh pumps for distribution amongst the different departments of the corporation be accepted at the following prices (subject to market fluctuations) :—No. 1, 1s. per gallon; No. 3, 10d. per gallon, subject to a rebate of id. per gallon if not less than 2,000 gallons per annum he purchased.