MUNICIPAL PURCHASES and PROPOSALS
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Cirencester Fire Brigade is buying a Leyland 400 g.p.m. fire-engine.
The assistance committee of Bolton Corporation is to purchase a motor ambulance. Warrington Corporation sanitary works committee has authorized the purchase of a motor vehicle.
Warrington Corporation health committee is to purchase a new ambulance for the borough general lesepitaL
Blackness{ Corporation has recently ordered six Leyland Lion and 10 Leyland Tiger passengers veldelea,"all of them being oilers.
Sheffield Watch Committee recommends the . acceptance of the tender of Autowaya. Ltd., for the supply of a Ford 5-cwt van.
The markets committee of Bolton Corporation recommends the purchase of a van for the weights and measures department.
SheMeld Corporation water committee hart accepted the tender of Kennings Ltd., for the supply of a Morris-Commercial 2-ton lorry.
The transport committee of Hull Corporation is obtaining tenders by March 16 for the supply of 30 oil-engined chassis for double-deck buses. Hull Corporation works committee hae authorized the purchase of a 3-ton and a 214ton chassis and a Morris-Commercial 30-ewe. lorry.
Warrington Corporation tramways committee has accepted the tender of Leyland Motors, Ltd., for the 'supply of 12 oil-engined doubledeck buses.
Manchester Corporation transport committee has accepted the tender of Crossley Motors, Ltd., for the supply of 25 all-metal doubledeck bus bodies.
Heston and isleworth Borough Council requires an 8-cwt. three-wheeled boxvan; the closing date for the receipt of tenders is March 18, at noon.
The transport committee of Salford Corporation recommends the acceptance of the tender of City Garage (Sailord), Ltd., for the supply of a Morris-Commercial 15-cwt. van.
:Sheffield Corporation transport committee favours the acceptance of the tender of Leyland Motors, Ltd., for the supply of eight buses and that of the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., for seven buses.
Harrow Urban District Council reeuires a light van not exceeding 10 h.p., and tenders for its supply have to be delivered by March 14; an allowance has to be made for a small 1929 car.
ISolihull Urban District Council Is inviting tenders for *the supply of a 10-cubic-yd. low-loading refuse collector. Further particulars may be obtained from the engineer and aurveyor and tenders have to be delivered by March 16.
Couledon and Purley Urban District Council requires tenders for the supply of four 12-cubic.yd. rear and side-loading refuse collectors. Further particulars may be obtained from the engineer and surveyor, and tenders have to be delivered by noon on March 18. Bromley Borough Council requires two vehicles for honor-refuse collection lone petrol and one electric) and a petrol vehicle for general highway work. Further details may be obtained from the borough engineer, and tenders have to be delivered by first post on March 14.
The health committee of Sheffield Corporation recommends the acceptance of the following tenders:-Kennings, Ltd., for a Morris-Commercial 3-ton chassis and two Dragon articulated six-wheeled semi-trailers; the Metropolitan Cansmell Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., lair six special containers for the above-mentioned Nuneaton Town Council is to buy a gully emptier and two lorries. Barrow-in-Furness Transport Committee is to buy two double-deck buses.
Hereford Corporation has authorized the purchase el a motor mower at a cost of £75.
The motorbus committee of Tosimorden Corporation has decided to purchase two buses. Shipley Urban District Council's electricity committee has authorized the Purchase of a Tam The parks committee of Manchester Corporation is to purchase a tractor at a cost of 2260. Tottenham Corporation's fire brigade commiteee recommends that tenders be invited for the supply of a motor pump.
Essex County Counc.1 has made provision, in estimates for the purchase of an ambulance at an estimated cost of 2600.
Barry Urban Ilistriet Council requires
ton road roller; enders for its supply have -to be del Leered by March 19. Poplar Borough Conneit's contracts committee recommends the purchase of three S.D.Freighter rear-loading movable-floor vehicles.
The electricity committee of Seaham Harbour Urban District Council is considering the geestion of the purchase of an electric vehicle es Ipswich Corporation requires a motor tractor for its parks department. Tenders have to be delivered by the first post on March 20. The health committee of York Corporation' nas authorized the purchase of a" 30-cwt. viva, equipped for use in an emergency as an amb ulance.
Herne Bay Urban District Council's highways committee recommends the acceptance of the tender of Messrs. Cox Bros. for the supply of a Thornycroft 2-ton lorry. . .St. Athens Town Council Is in the market for a tractor mowing and rolling machines and other golf-course equipment; the closing date for tenders is March 18, ' Hammersmith Electricity Committee recnen• mends the acceptance of the tender of Partridge, Wilson and Co., Ltd., Leicester, fur the supply of an electric vehicle.
iStoke•omTrent Cleansing Committee recommends the acceptance of the tender: otthe Newcastle (Staffs) Motor Co., Ltd., for 'the supply of a Leyland refuse collector. . Merthyr Tydfil Corporation is purchasing through Messrs. Davies and Sons, Merthyr, 'Aix Dennis buses, two being 36-seaters arid four 32-seaters. Another bus is to be bought tater. Birkenhead Corporation is buying 10 Leyland Oil-engined bus chassis, five to be equipped with bodies by the Northern Counties Motor and Engineering Co., Ltd., and five by Massey Bros.. Ltd.
Allorecambe Corporation's cleansing superintendent reports that, in the near future, aminoher of refuse collectors will have to be replaced. A Earner vehicle is to be demons strated for a week.
Perth Courty Council's roads committee invites tenders for the supply of three 2-ton petrolangined three-way tipping lorries. Tenders have to be delivered to Mr. T. B. Marshall, county clerk, York Place, Perth, by March'Belfast Corporation invites tenders for the supply of a gully emptier, a sweeper-collector. and three sweepers. Further particulars may be obtained from the city surveyor, Room . 85. City Hall, Belfast, and tenders have to be delivered by March 19.
..Leyten Borough Council is inviting tenders for the supply of the following vehicies:-Seven 2(4-3-ton electric vans with 12-15-oubieeyd. moving-floort ype buttes; two 2-ton electric vans with 7-8-cubic-yd. container-type refuse bodies; a petrol gully emptier; a 10-ton oils engineer road roller; a 2-ton six-cylinder tipping lorry. Further particulars may be obtained from the borongh engineer, and tenders have to be delivered by noon on March 12.