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MUNICIPAL PURCHASES and PROPOSALS
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The tramways committee of DERBY Corporation is to buy 14 trolley-buses.
The purchase of a van is being considered by LLANDUDNO Urban District Council.
ENramo Urban District Council is recommended to buy a Guy-Tnke and Bell 10-cubic-yd. refuse-collection vehicle costing £565.
The transport committee of Benwas AND IIIACHEN Urban District Council is to obtain tenders, to be delivered by February 16th, for the supply of It 32seater bus.
The transport committee of DuNDE.N Corporation has recommended the purchase of five Thornycroft and five A.E.C. chassis (one equipped with an oil engine), and 194Metropolitan-Cammell all-steel double-deck bodies.
The highways committee of SWANSCOMBE Urban District Council is to make provision in estimates for the purchase of a motor road roller. It also recommends that tenders should be obtained for the supply Of a 30-cwt. tipping lorry.
PENGE Urban District Council is inviting tenders for the supply of a side or end-tipping vehicle suitable for the collection of road sweepings, Further information may be obtained from Colonel H. W. Longdin, surveyor, Town Hall, Anerley, London, S.E.20, and tenders have to be delivered not later than February 10th.
PRESTON Town Council has in mind the purchase of 10 Leyland Titan chassis for the sum of £918 each and four Leyland Lion chassis for £805 each, one of the vehicles being equipped with a compression-ignition engine. Another proposal is to accept the tender of the English Electric Co., Ltd., for doublesaloon bodies at 1720 each and for single-deck bodies at £480 each. ROCHDALE Corporation is to purchase a further 12 double-deck buses.
BURY Corporation proposes to purchase a mechanical sweeper at a cost of £927.
At HERNE BAY it is proposed to hold a trial of systems of mechanized refuse collection.
The gas committee of BeettiLL Corporation favours the purchase of a Morris-Commercial lorry costing £240.
The watch committee of TYNEMOUTH Corporation recommends the purchase of a prison van at a cost of about £350.
The electricity committee of CROYDON Corporation recommends the purchase of two 7-cwt. vans at a cost of about £215.
The works committee of PorLAJa Borough Council is to consider whether electric or petrol vehicles shall be adopted for refuse collection.
Crossley Condor double-saloon sixcylinder petrol and oil-engined buses are being bought by BARROW, NORTHAMPTON, ROCHDALE and WIDNES Corporations.
William Beardmore and Co., Ltd., has asked GLASGOW Corporation to allow the concern to demonstrate a high-speed oil engine on one of the buses.
11.1Anytamora Borough Council is recommended to buy a Karrier sweeper and collector at a cost of £950, as well as a gully-emptier estimated to cost £1,200.
A sub-committee of DISHEARD Town Council is to investigate matters relating to the system of refuse collection. The purchase of a motor collector is advocated.
In the annual estimates of MANCHESTER Corporation's transport department, for 1932-33, the sum of £90,000 is earmarked for the purchase of buses. A profit of £18,200 is estimated on the bus system, and one of £62,130 on trams.
Death of Mr. G. W. Watson.
We much regret to announce the death on January 21st, from pneumonia, of Mr. George William Watson, the well-known consulting engineer. Mr. Watson was a very early member of the industry, entering it with Serpollet in 1897. He was at one time on the technical staff of this journal, which position he resigned in 1912, when he took up his consulting practice. He was a Past President of the Institution of Automobile Engineers and a member of its council, consulting engineer to the S.M.M. and T. and the C.M.U.A., and chairman of the Technical Committee of the R.A.C. He was born in Yorkshire in 1876, and received his technical education at the Yorkshire College, Leeds.
Another Gardner Engine Success.
An order for 19 Gardner 5L2-type, 62 b.h.p. compression-ignition engines has been secured for the maker by Mr. W. H. Goddard. These units are for the complete conversion of a fleet of lorries operated by an important haulage contractor in the north, and the gross value is over £10,000. Deliveries of the engines are to start on April 1st. This is a significant indication of the recognition which is being given by progressive hauliers to the advantages of oil engines.
Ransoms Trolley-buses for Tees-side.
The Tees-side Railless Traction Board, of which the constituent authorities are Middlesbrough Corporation and Eaton Urban District Council, is to spend approximately £12,000 on the purchase of eight Ransomes 32-seater low-loading trolley-buses. These vehicles will replace 10 others of an obsolete pattern. The decision has been arrived at in poxsince of the Board's policy of reorganization.
An Ambulance-licence Difficulty.
Although ambulances are exempt from licence duty, Tottenham Urban District Council has been called upon by Middlesex County Council to pay £16 and £22 respectively in connection with two vehicles employed for carrying school children, the latter authority objecting to their being classed as ambulances. Tottenham's finance committee recommends that the £39 should not be paid.
More Double-deckers for Plymouth.
By reason of certain requirements of the Road Traffic Act, the tramways and transport committee of Plymouth Corporation has decided to recommend the purchase of 35 48-seater buses to replace those of the one-man-operated type which are still in use. The seating capacity of the latter is such that the employment of both a driver and a condoctor would not prove economical.
A New Speedometer for £3 10s.
Anticipating well in advance the possibility of speedometers being made compulsory equipment for empress carriages, the Cooper-Stewart Engineering Co., Ltd., 136, Long Acre, London, W.0.2, has introduced a new type that will appeal specially to the coach operator.
The device, which is of the pointer pattern, is operated by means of centrifugal mechanism and it records in an accurate manner variations in speed up to 55 m.p.h. Although the principal function of a speedometer on a coach is to warn the driver when he is approaching the legal limit of 30 m.p.h., the accuracy of the Cooper-Stewart device in recording rises and falls of speed is a desirable feature.
The speedometer is stoutly constructed to withstand arduous service and has easily read white numerals upon a black dial. The price, corn plete with flexible shafting, is £3 10s. A useful feature is a bayonet connection enabling the speedometer readily to be detached, when not required, without the need for removing screws.
Other important lines marketed by the Cooper-Stewart Engineering Co., Ltd., include fog lights and spot lights, which are manufactured at the company's Hendon works, and vibrator horns for commercial vehicles.
S.M.T. Profit.
The report of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., for the year ended October 31st, 1931, shows a small increase in profit as compared with the previous year, the 1135,244 earned during the 12 months being 11,503 higher than that for 1930. The dividend on the ordinary shares is to be maintained at 10 per cent. and 124,550 has been written off goodwill, leaving £49,355 to be carried forward.
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North Eastern Railway, under the agreement with the company, have asked for further representation on the board. .
The Future of Waterloo Bridge.
The Ministry of Transport has notified the London County Council that a grant of GO per cent. will be made for the reconstruction of Waterloo Bridge. A scheme for a six-traffic-line bridge will cost £1,250,000, and this is favoured by the council. If remodelling the bridge were possible—and the council does not agree with this—it would be necessary to consider the provision of a new one at the Temple.
A Lecture at Barnsley on Oil Engines.
A lecture on the employment of the oil engine for road transport will be given at the Barnsley Mining and Technical College Engineering Students Society on February 10th, at 7.30 p.m., by Mr. W. H. Goddard, A.M.I.Mech.E., the agent for Yorkshire for Gardner oil engines for road vehicles.
Building Pierce-Arrows in Canada.
We understand that arrangements have been completed for the production at the Studebaker plant at Walkerville, Ontario, of Pierce-Arrow motor vehicles. Apart from private cars, it is stated that certain commercial vehicles will be produced.