Local Proceedings.
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Leeds Corporation has authorized the purchase of a 2-ton motor lorry for the electricity department.
Tenby Town Council has purchased a Merryweather fire-engine for £450 for the volunteer fire-brigade.
Merthyr Corporation has allowed its bus superintendent to give evidence in favour of the Bill of the Mynyddislwytt Urban District Council seeking powers to provide motorbuses within its area.
In view of the development of the district, the fire brigade committee of the Ilford Urban District Councilrecommends the provision of two additional motor fire-engines.
Glasgow Corporation is considering the establishment of a traffic department of the police force, the chief constable having deemed it advisable in view of the great increase in the use of motor vehicles.
The highways committee of the Middlesex County Council recommends acceptance of the tender of the Chaseside Motor Co., Ltd., Enfield, for the supply of a Fordson tractor at £234 7s. and a 5-ton trailer at £153 10s.
The local tramways company hare asked the Gravesend Watch Committee to arrange, when licensing buses, to in sist on fares being charged in order to afford some measure of protection to the tramways, which are now suffering severely from bus competition. The committee is to consider the matter.
Hull Corporation has decided to invite quotations for the supply of a 4ton petrol lorry, for the works department.
The streets committee of the Dudley Corporation recommends the purchase of a motor lorry, with two interchangeable bodies, for street watering and general purposes, at a cost of £500.
Refuse Collection at Swansea.
An interesting suggestion is made by the chief constable of Swansea concerning refuse collection, which applies particularly to Swansea, but also to towns which are similarly placed. The Swansea Borough Council is responsible for the refuse collection in the greater part of the town, but a considerable portion of it is cleared by two other local authorities, these being the Swansea Rural District Council and the Gower Rural District Council. As a result of this method of procedure the chief constable thinks that in the past year there were more collections than there should have been, and in his annual report he concluded that there were duplicate and even triplicate collections made by the various authorities towards a common object. In his opinion the authorities should combine so far as collection is concerned and obtain suitable transport vehicles to make daily clearances at stipulated times, instead of a number of small, disconnected collections. The matter is under the consideration of the Swansea Council. Thornycroft Repeat Orders.
Amongst the large batch of orders for Thornycroft goods and passenger vehicles received during the fortnight ended March 20th, there were no fewer than eight repeat orders, some of these being received from such important transport concerns as Shell-Mex, Ltd.; Schweppes, Ltd.; Whitbread and Co., Ltd.; and Watney, Combo, Reid and Co., Ltd. The order of the first-named company is for 17 of the new Thornycroft long:wheelbase type-Q chassis, to which will be fitted 1,200-gallon tank bodies. The National Benzoic Co., Ltd., and the Redline Motor Spirit Co. have also recently placed orders for Thornycroft machines.
Vulcan Activity.
The Vulcan Motor and Engineering Co. (1906), Ltd., have recently received repeat orders from the Southport Corporation for a low load-line omnibus, the Barnsley Co-operative Wholesale Society, and J. and A. Jackson, brick manufacturers, of Manchester. Two tipping wagons are also passing through their works for the Blsydon Urban District Council, as well as a 20-25-cwt. lorry which is shortly to be delivered to the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society.
Another Irish Transport Congress.
The Irish Motorists' Union and Transport Development Federation has decided to hold another national transport congress in Dublin in May next.