Municipal Purchases and Proposals.
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The transport committee of the SnreLEY Urban District Council has decided to purchase two motor lorries.
Ricisstosaa (Surrey) Town Council has received sanction to borrow £3,357 for the purchase of mechanical vehicles.
Inquiries as to the purchase of a new fire-engine are being made by the fire-brigade committee of the HUNTINGDON Town Council.
For work in connection -with the mains department, the DEWSBURY Electricity and Tramways Committee is to buy a 30-40-cwt. lorry.
Additions are to be made to the firefighting equipment of the ASHTONuNDER-Lyzot Town Council by the purchase of a motor tender and a 35t'400gallon motor fire-pump.
EntsranaGn Fire Brigade is inviting tenders for the supply of a turntable fire-escape with a ladder built in four sections and capable of reaching to a height of 95 ft. when fully extended. Further particulars can be obtained from the Firemaster, lit the fire-brigade headquarter* at Edinburgh, and tenders have to be delivered by March 30th.
The tramways committee of the YORK Corporation has allocated £5,1)00 in estimates for the purchase of motorbuses.
The sanitary committee of the BLYTH Corporation recommends the purchase of a low-loading motor vehicle for refuse collection.
The tramways committee of the DOUGLAS (I. of hi.) Corporation has accepted the tender of Tilling-Stevens Motors, Ltd., for four chassis at £1,084 each, and that of the Northern Counties' Motor and Engineering Co., Ltd., for four bus bodies at £455 each.
The tramways committee of the Poirasmortn Corporation recommends acceptance of the following tenders for the supply of 12 motorbus chassis and bodies :—Dennis Bros., Ltd., for six Etype four-cylinder chassis, at £850 each ; aohn L Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., for six six-cylinder chassis, at £795 each ; Hall, Lewis and Co., Ltd., for eight bodies, at £452 each; Waclham Bros., for two bodies, at £460 each ; Portsmouth Commercial Motors, Ltd., for two bodies, at £450 each.
PORTLAND Urban District Council has decided to allocate a sum in the next estimates for the purchase of a motor ambulance.
The tramways committee of the Btastismitsos Corporation is inviting tenders for the supply of 15 doublesaloon motorbus bodies.
The tramways committee of the PORTSMOUTH Corporation recommends acceptance of the tender of the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., for the supply of lubricants for buses at .1501d. per mile run.
The roads committee of the COL* CHESTER Corporation has arranged with Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd., to hire two dustless refuse collectors at a charge of £7 10s. per machine per week, for a period of two weeks.
The tramways and transport committee of the PLYMOUTH City Council after considering tenders has resolved to purchase 12 single-saloon motorbuses at a price of £1,466 each ; application is being made to the Ministry of Transport for sanction to borrow £18,000 for the purpose.