Fire-Brigade Matters.
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Tenders for Reading's two fireengines must be lodged on or before the 25th inst.
John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., has received a second repeat. order for a 30 h.p. chassis from the Christchurch (New Zealand) Fire Board.
II alleys latest-delivered fire-engine was officially tested at Victoria Park, Whiteinch, on the 29th ult. The deep-lift test of 281 ft. was completed in 322, seconds.
The Berlin Corporation is motorizing the fire-station in the Reichenhergerstrasse at a cost of L'4,425. This station, " covers "the entire south-eastern district of Berlin.
Opels Saved by Motor Fire Engines.
Our Berlin correspondent writes: I learn that, but for the prompt intervention of a couple of Adler fire-engines owned by the Frankfort-on-the-Main Corporation, at the recent destructive fire at the works of Messrs. Opel, in Riisselsheim, the motor shops as well as the cycle and sewing-machine departments would have been destroyed. Rfisselsheim lies some miles from Frankfort, and horsedrawn engines could hardly have arrived in time to be of any practical seivie." The Old Kent Road depot of the L.G.O.C. was the scene of a fire last Tuesday morning. The damage was confined to four buses.
Dusseldorf is now in possession of a motorized fire-station, that in the Mtinzstrasse containing an electro-turbine pump, an electric escape and an electric pump, in addition to an electric ambulance carriage. The two remaining stations will shortly be modernized.
Middlesbrough is getting ahead, surely if slowly. There is to be some form of inauguration ceremony when the blerryweather vehicles are delivered, as the builders are desirous that representatives of neighbouring local authorities shall witness the delivery trials, and are themselves prepared to make a monetary contribution to the cost:. The Chairman of the Fire Brigade Committee and the Town Clerk are making the necessary arrangements. A certain committee of investigation, which was appointed to consider rival claims in respect of reciprocating and turbine pumps, appears to us to have done no great service to the former class of pump. A critical résumé of salient points in that committee's findings is published on the next page. That resume has been prompted by one of our correspondents.
An Austrian Fire-engine with Rotary Pump.
Our Berlin correspondent writes : "I send you a photograph [reproduced below.-En.] of a type of fire-engine that has been placed on the Austrian market by the Austrian Daimler Motoren-Gesellschaft. The chassis is of this maker's 24-cwt. pattern, with a four-cylinder petrol engine of 28 h.p., which serves to drive both vehicle and pump. The latter is of the rotary type and is built under the driver's seat. On each side of the pump are a suction arid a pressure socket-piece. At a pressure of some 140 lb. the pump delivers about 225 gallons per minute. Notice, in the illustration, the arrangements for carrying hose and ladders and the position of the men's seats, upon which eight firemen can be accommodated. Under a full load, the engine travels at 30 miles an hour. Austrian Daimler fire-engines of this class have already done splendid service."