Municipal Purchases and Proposals.
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ST. PANCRAS Borough Council has recently placed an order for an L-type Lacre sweeper.
CHORLEY Watch Committee has granted licences for 34 additional motorbuses to the Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.
GRE_A.T YARMOUTH Corporation has recently purchased an Eqwhipple engine starter for use in connection with the buses run by its tramways department.
COULSDON and PURLEY Urban District Council is inviting tenders for the supply of a compound steam tractor fitted with solid rubber tyres. Tenders have to be delivered by to-morrow (June 6th).
The borough engineer's department of the SOUTHAMPTON Corporation is buying a Mann 6-ton overtype tipping steam wagon fitted with an interchangeable street-watering tank and sprinklers, so that the machine can be used either for general haulage or street watering. This authority has four Mann wagons in use, the first of which was purchased 15 years ago.
WEST BROI■IWICH Corporation is buying a Lacre L-type motor sweeping machine.
GLASGOW Watch Committee TCCOMmends that two new fire-engines be purchased from Dennis Bros., Ltd.
SHIPLEY Urban District Council has decided to provide fire-extinguishers for eight vehicles belonging to the transport department.
Rirox Corporation has accepted the tender of Messrs. Bruce and Co. for a Morris-Commercial tipping wagon at a cost of 1370.
ILFORD Corporation recommends acceptance of the tender of Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd., at £610 for the supply of a vehicle for refuse collEction.
STORE-ON-TRENT Corporation has decided to invite tenders for a new motor chassis for ambulance purposes, as well as for the execution of the work of transferring an ambulance body to this chassis and for the transfer of the body of the prison van to the present ambulance chassis. ESSEX County Council has decided to purchase an Aveling and Porter tractor at a cost of £780. • •
BARRING Tows: Urban District Council has appointed a sub-committee to consider the advisability of adopting mechanical transport for refuse collection.
ROTHERHAM Corporation has decided to purchase a motor tractor for use at the sewage works and elsewhere, subject to trials proving satisfactory, at a cost of about £163.
GUILDFORD Corporation has accepted the tender of Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd., at £3,058, for the supply of fonr motor vehicles for work in connection with refuse collection.
The general purposes committee of the BURNLEY Town Council has recently recommended the purchase of four new and four second-baud motorbuses, as the tramways department Ends it difficult to provide a bus service adequate for the requirements of the district with the present fleet