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Leeds Corporation is to seek a loan of £17,250 for the purchase of fifteen 30-seater motor omnibuses.
South Shields Corpo.ration Tramways Committee has purchased two motorbuses from Morris Motors, Ltd.
Leeds Corporation has obtained sanction to borrow £6,111 for the purchase of steam wagons for the highways department.
Leeds Watch Committee has accepted the tender (£020) of Ilelgssrs. Dennis Bros. for the supply of a small motor fire tender.
• Bolton Corporation Tramways Committee has visited the works of Leyland Motors, Ltd., to inspect a new low-loading type motorbus.
The Seaharn Harbour Urban District Council, at its last monthly meeting, resolved to invite quotations for a motor road-roller for light work.
Leeds Corporation Tramways Committee has purchased two 35 h.p. tower wagon clanssis from Messrs. John I. Thornyeroft and Co., Ltd., at a cost of £1,060.
Leeds Corporation Tramways Committee has accepted the tender of the Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co., Ltd., for the supply of a 6-ton steam lorry at £725.
Ellesmere Port and Whitby TI.D.C. has appointed a sub-committee to inquire further as to the purchase of a motor engine and the establishment of a fire brigade for the district.
Leeds Watel,I,Committee has refused to grant a licence to the Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways Co., Ltd., for a motor bus because the vehicle is not fitted with an emergency door.
Adelaide (Australia) Corporation has decided to take no action to install traffic-indicators at street intersections,. as it is of the opinion that such structures are unsuitable for city streets.
The Whitley Bay and Monkseaton Fire Brigade has just made an important addition to its equipment by the purchase of a 35-40 h.p. Leyland motor fire engine, with a rated capacity of 350 gallons per minute.
Somerset County Council expresses the opinion that it is desirable, as a matter of public convenience, and in the interests of the Road Fund_ revenue, that all driving licences should expire on a fixed 'date, Septcmber 30th being suggested as suitable for this .purpose.
A movement has leen inanenrated Upper Coquetdale, a wide and scattered region in mid-Northumberland, for the provision of a mOtor ambulance, for the purpose of Conveying patients from Outlying farmsteads and residences to hospital. The proposal is to operate the vehicle from Rothbury, which is, roughly, in the centre of the neighbourhood, and efforts are being made to raise £500 for the scheme.
At a meeting of the Merthyr Corporation Bus Committee the superintendent stated that he had been notified by the Leyland Company that they, were now manufacturing a new 26-seater chassis and other improved types of vehicle which would effect considerable economies, and had invited him to inspect the new vehicles. The chairman and siiperintenclent were authorized to visit the Leyland works for this purpose. 13olton Corporation Tramways Committee has accepted the tender of Leyland Motors, Ltd., for the supply of a motor box van.
Dundee Corporation has asked the cleansing superintendent to report as to the purchase of additional motor vehicles for haulage.
Manchester Corporation Tramways Committee has decided to run an experimental motorbus service to Didsbury for three months.
Middlesex County Highways Committee recommends the purchase of a motor-roller at a cost of £837, from Barford and Perkins, Ltd.
Dundee Corporation Cleansing Committee has purchased a Lacre streetsweeping machine at a cost of £450 and the return of the old machine.
Dundee Corporation has purchased a motor chassis from the Leyland Motor Co. at a cost of £887, and the fire department has ccinstructed the fire-engine body.
Merthyr Corporation has been informed by the engineer of its municipal bus service that a service for workmen cannot be a financial success unless ' overloading he permitted.
The Cwmaraman U.D.C. is to consider the employment Of motor vehicles instead of ,horse-drawn vehicles for the purpose of refuse .collection, and 'Certain sections of its works department. haulage. To
,facilitate the, figures pertaining to the mechanical vehicle refuse collection system of the adjoining area autholity,-,the Arnmanford 'T.J.D.C., are to beisubmitted to the members as soon as possible.