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Tiverton Town Council has decided to purchase a motor fire-engine.
Calcutta Municipal Council has authorized the purchase of two Mack motor lorries.
Haverfordwest Town Council is considering the question of purchasing a ntotor fire-engine.
Richmond (Yorks) Town Council has ,decided to make charges for motor park. ling in the streets. `s. Chorley Wood Urban District Council is considering the quiestion of obtaining a motor fire-engine.
Esher and Ditton Urban District Council has decided on the purchase of a motor lorry at a cost of £745.
Abram Urban District Council has. arranged to have its horse ambulance converted into a mister ambulance.
Chester Corporation Electric Committee recommends the purchase of a Ford light delivery van at a cost of £135.
Willesden Urban District Council has asked a committee to go into the matter of the acsiuisition of mechanically propelled vehicles.
Stockton-on-Tees Town Council has decided to purchase four Leyland oneman-controlled motorbuses at a cost not exceeding £1,112 each. •
The total decrease in the receipts on the Hull Corporation tramways system for the period from April 1st-, 1923,. to January 12th, 1924, amounts to £9,517.
A report of the Lynton Urban District Council states that the working of the council's motor lorry has shown a saving of £180 or £200 compared with horse traction.
Cudworth Urban District Council has granted licences to the Barnsley and District Traction Co., Ltd., in respect of 18 vehicles of a new type to carry 44 'passengers each.
Tiverton Town Council has granted the National Omnibus and Transport Co., Ltd., three:. motorbus licences in connection with a service propcised to be established between Tiverton and Taunton.
The Keighley Rural District Council has given permission to the Premier Transport Co., of Keighley, to fix timetable notices to the lamp standards on the Keighley and Bingley road in connection with the passenger. service between Keighley and Bingley and Keighley and Morton.
The Hartlepool Port Sanitary Authority, has, in view of complaints received of, frequent delays where patients are removed to hospital by means of horsedrawn vehicles, instructed a sub-committee to secnre tenders for the purchase of a motor ambulance, together with full information as to running and other costs.
The Cooper Stewart Engineering Co., Ltd., announce that the price of the Stewart model 26 speedometer is now 5.15 5s.
In our last issue, in an article entitled "Nickel Deposition Saves Buying New Parts," we referred to the process known as Fescol, but erroneously described the name of the company, which should have been Fescol, Ltd., their address being at Penarth Street, Old Kent Road, London, S.E.15.