Fire-Brigade Matters.
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Wrexham (North Wales) Watch Committee is considering the purchase of one or more motor fire-engines, on a report from the borough surveyor, For Potchefstroom.
Advices just received from South Africa state that the KUM of 2:32,000 is proposed to be raised by the Town Council of Potchefstroom for various works, including the purchase of a motor fire-engine, and other fire-brigade equipment.
Glasgow's Drill Competition.
We are indebted to advices and facilities from Chief Officer Waddell, head of the Glasgow brigade, for our ability to reproduce photographs of the motor equipment which participated in the annual drill competition last week. The Glasgow brigade is one of the most completely equipped of its kind in Great Britain, for it now possesses no fewer than 14 motor fire-fighting machines, whilst the Committee is contemplating the purchase of two more. The first motor vehicle we: bought in 1905, this being a WoIse ley first-aid machine ; it superseded horsedrawn hose and ladder carriage. The next year saw the acqui sition of a turntable escape of the Simons type the ladder of which can be raised to a height of 85 ft. in 18 sec. by the aid of compressed carbonic-acid gas carried in cylinders. In the same year, a Merryweather pump was also obtained, and about a year after two other lieferryweathers were added. Two and a half years then elapsed before it was decided to increase the motor plant, and very wisely the turbine pump was adopted, a Dennis and a Halley of this type being obtained in 1910. So satisfactory has the turbine pump proved, that, since these first machines were ordered, no other type has been employed, and the reciprocating pump has been quite "turned down" so far as new purchases go. In less than two years, no fewer than six turbine pumps have been acquired—four Halleys, and two Dennis. At the present moment, a small committee has been appointed to consider the purchase of the two pumps, a Dennis and a Halley, which are now exhibited in the Scottish National Exhibition. The annual fire-drill competition was held in the Alexandria Park. There were two awards to be won —one a handsome cup presented by the Glasgow Rate and Salvage Association, and the other a shield given by 'Messrs. A. Guinness and Co., of Dublin : the Corporation presented badges to the two best teams. The drill; consisted of laying down one line of hose from a motor pump and one line up a turntable escape, each team consisting of an officer and eight men. The points taken into consideration by the judges in making the awards were : best time and neatest laying down of hose line; best time in striking target with water from first and second lines of hose respectively. The competition took place at a pond beside a football ground ; a staging had been erected some distance back from the water, and here the competitors took their seats prior to their turn. On the alarm hell sounding, the men slipped down the poles and manned the engine, which was then driven down to the pond, the target being on a high mast, above a raft. Thirteen teams, representing the various brigade divisions in the city, took part. The judges were : Chief Officer Brown, Glasgow Salvage Corps ; Chief Officer Findlay, Govan ; Chief Officer Weir, Dundee ; Chief Officer MrNaughton, Paisley ; Chief Officer Young, Leith ; and Mr. C. J. Clelland. The time-keeper was Mr. A. G. Rennie, of Messrs. Rennie and Prosser.