MUNICIPAL PURCHASES and PROPOSALS
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The watch committee of Beicarrox Corporation is buying a Dennis fireengine.
WrrNev Urban District Council has agreed to buy a new ambulance at a cost not exceeding MO.
PLYbiouTH Corporation is buying 14 Leyland Titan double-deckers, six of them being oil-engined vehicles.
PONTYPRIDD Urban District Council's gas committee has accepted offers by various concerns to demonstrate a gas-driven bus.
PEMBROKESHIRE Public Works Committee's estimates provide for a new van to be bought for the weights and measures department.
EDINBURGH Corporation requires a new ambulance for its public-health department, and tenders have to be delivered by February 3.
The cleansing committee of EXETER Corporation is to make provision hi estimates for the purchase of two refuse-collection vehicles. ,
The works committee of -MAR vLE BONE Borough Council has made provision in estimates for the purchase of another low-loading refuse collector at a cost of 2,535.
BRECON County Council's surveyor recommends that two steam Wagons be replaced by two 8-ton lorries at a cost of about £500 each. -A committee is to decide the matter.
The transport committee of CHESTER Corporation recommends that tenders be obtained for the supply of one double-deck bus and two 20-seater oneman-operated buses. PREsTE/GN Urban District Council proposes to buy a new fire-engine.
The works committee of BATTERSEA Corporation recommends the purchase of an Albion 3-ton lorry with hydraulic tipping gear.
WILTS Roads and Bridges Committee is considering the replacement of 12 21-ton lorries by a similar number of 'new vehicles, the existing lorries to be taken in part payment. Further particulars may be iiptained from the county surveyor and tenders have to be delivered by January 31.
MERTON AND MORDEN Urban District Council requires a 3-ton tipping lorry for general highway purposes. Further particulars may be obtained from the engineer and surveyor, Council Offices, Kingston Road, Merton, London, S.W.19, and tenders have to be delivered by noon on February 2.
STOKE-ON-TRENT Corporation requires two gully emptiers equipped with street-sprinkling and washing apparatus. Further details may be obtained from the cleansing superintendent, St. Peter's Chambers, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent, and tenders have to be delivered by February 8.
The tramways committee of BELPAs.r Corporation invites tenders for the supply of 10 single-deck buses complete, or, alternatively, 10 chassis and 10 single-deck bodies ; seven double-deck buses complete, or, alternatively, seven chassis and seven double-deck bodies. Further particulars are obtainable from the general manager, corporation tramways, Sandy Row, Belfast, and tenders must be delivered by February B.
HAULAGE RATES RAISED.
The works committee of Fulham Borough Council has been asked by the Hain River Grit Co. and Mr. Thomas Sivers, the contractors for the supply of shingle and sand respectively, to allow an increase on their contract prices as from January 1 to March 31, 1934, to assist them to meet the additional taxation and changed conditions.
The contractors stated that the additional cost was equivalent to 1s. to is. 6d. per cubic yd. The committee recommends that the price be increased by 6d. per cubic yd.
Scheduled Bridges in Staffordshire.
Speaking at a Wolverhampton meeting, 'convened by Stafford County Council and relating to the Bridges Clause of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, the county surveyor stated that the railway companies had scheduled bridges for restriction to 12 tons that were known quite recently to have carried loads of 86 tons and 60 tons.
Alderman Ballard, of Dudley, spoke strongly in favour of the local authorities protecting the interests of roadtransport operators and suggested that he was convinced that the present move was not a question of weak bridges, but of the elimination of competition. He urged the authorities, both county and local, to use every endeavour to put a stop to improper use by the railways of their powers under the Act.
The county surveyor expressed the opinion that priority in the matter of dealing with scheduled bridges should be regulated, as much as anything else, by the importance of the route on which the bridge was situated.
Lower Railway Bridge Tolls?
The Road Board of Argyll County Council is endeavouring to induce the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Co. to reduce the tolls at Connel Ferry Bridge. A meeting held last week between representatives of both bodies is expected to lead to developments. At present the charge is 10s, each way for a motorcar.
£20,000 Garage for Newcastle?
After being in abeyance for a year, Newcastle-on-Tyne City Council is to reconsider a scheme for a R20,000 garage which is proposed to be built on the Ouseburn tip, to accommodate 40 refuse-collecting vehicles. At present the vehicles are housed at seven garages and depots. BIRKENHEAD'S BUSY BRIGADE.
In his annual report, Mr. E. Ball, chief officer of Birkenhead Fire Brigade, states that during 1933 the municipal ambulances removed 2,365 accident and private cases, this being an increase of 113 as compared with the figure for 1932. The time occupied on the various journeys was 1,079 hours 36 minutes, or an average of about 27.44 minutes per journey, whilst the distance travelled was 12,129 miles, or an average of about 5.13 miles per journey.
The fire brigade was engaged at fires for 346 hours 45 minutes, or an average of about 1 hour 12.5 minutes at each fire, and the distance travelled was 1,389 miles, or an average of about 4.85 miles per journey.
Electrical Equipment for Trolleybusas.
Amongst orders recently received by the British Thornson-l-touston Co., Ltd., for twilleybus equipment may be mentioned one from liarrier Motors, Ltd., for a complete equipment for Portsmouth Corporation, and another from the Sunbeam Motor Car Co., Ltd., for 12 complete equipments for buses; for Bournemouth and four equipments for vehicles for Portsnaouth.