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Lowestoft is making inquiries about the cost of a new motor fireengine.
The surveyor to the Barnes U.D.C. is at the moment engaged upon bringing up-to-date a report which he laid before his council last year.
Mansfield (Notts.) Town Council is now considering alternative recommendations, in regard to the up-to-date equipment of its brigade.
At Halifax, on Tuesday last, a L.G.B. inspector held the usual form of inquiry into the Town Council's application for a loan of 11000 for the purchase of a motor fire-engine.
Morecambe Town Council has again had before it the matter of the purchase of a motor fire-engine. A decision has not yet been reached by the Fire Brigade Committee, in respect of the engine to be bought.
Keighley Town Council has been asked by the Skipton R.D.C. to purchase another motor fireengine; the latter council pays £150 annually for the services of the Keighley brigade, Insurance Companies' Warning.
Several of the principal insurance agents in Ottawa, Ontario, having intimated to the Board of Control of that city that an immediate increase in the insurance rates was likely to be made for local property, the city has decided at once to add two new motor fireengines to its brigade's equipment.
At Birmingham.
Birmingham's new Morris engine was received on the 12th inst. We illustrate the vehicle, with its 85-ft. " Ajax " turn-table fire escape and water tower combined on page 79. The machine has an overall length, with the escape in travelling position, of 211 ft., and the total cost was £1300.
We understand that Chief Officer Tozer is well pleased with this latest arrival.
On this page, we illustrate a group of engines at one of the Birmingham district stations : the group includes Dennis machines and the above-mentioned new Morris engine. The Dennis engines have done much hard work here. Greenock Considers.
Greenock Corporation has deputed the following duties to a subcommittee : " To consider and report on specifications for a DennisGwynne six-cylind.r petrol motor turbine fire-engine, of not less than 65 h.p., with appurtenances."
Dewsbury's Morris.
A local correspondent writes :--"The advent of an SO h.p. motor fire-engine in Dewsbury has been heralded by two sets of circumstances, one serious enough, and the other Gilbertian. On the day following delivery, a fire occurred at the neighbouring township of Thornhill, and the results of preliminary tests of the vehicle were substantiated on this occasion. It has a reputed speed of .10 m.p.h. on the level, and a fine tribute to its potentialities was found in the way it travelled up the Shoulder of Mutton Hill and other ieclines (the district I 14 V4! ry hilly). The jet-power is 500 gallons a minute with a pressure of 135 lb. per sq. in., or 450 gallons at 150 lb. A patent plumbing arrangement has been fitted for the ladder, to accommodate it to the varying and plentiful slopes of the vicinity.
"The joke about the Dewsbury engine is that the Corporation has nowhere to house it., but it has had a Local Government Board inquiry. to ask for powers to borrow 21500 for a new 'house' or shed.
" The fire-engine cost 21073, or with extras 21100. Seating accommodation is provided for 10 men, others can stand, and four threegallon extinguishers are carried." Several district councils in the neighbourhood of St. Albans are taking further steps to combine in 1 he matter of motor equipment.
A 17,000 Dollar Fire-engine.
Our Toronto correspondent informs us that the city of Calgary, Alta, claims to have the most modern fire-fighting equipment in the world. It is stated that Calgary has the only fire department which possesses that special appliance known in America as a gaselectric-aerial truck. Boiled down, this somewhat " high-falutin " description apparently refers to a petrol-electric water tower. This special machine has a 50 h.p. engine, which can propel it at the rate of over 30 miles an hour. Each of the four wheels of the machine has a 1211 h.p. electric motor. The fire-fighting equipment of this remarkable truck consists of: a 79 ft. ladder, which can he electrically raised in 44 sec. ; two 33 ft. ladders ; one 30 ft. ladder ; one 25 ft. ladder ; one 20 ft. ladder ; one 16 ft. ladder ; one 10 ft. ladder ; and one 6 ft. extension ladder. In addition, it carries life belts, pompier ladders, life nets, and four extra-heavy life lines. The total cost of this machine was 17,500 dollars. The Calgary brigade also possesses a 90 h.p. sixcylinder rotary motor fire pump, which has a capacity of BOO gallons of water per minute, and a speed on the flat of over 95 miles per hour. This machine carries 1000 ft. of hose, besides hand chemicals, axes, door-openers, crowbars, etc.