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Coulsdon Urban District Council has arranged for a further trial with a Dennis motor gully emptier.
The tramways committee of the Northampton Corporation has authorized the inauguration of bus services to Abington and Kingsley.
Application is to be made by the West Hartlepool Corporation for a provisional Order to enable it to run trolleybuses over three new routes.
Oxford Corporation has authorized the city engineer to introduce two lowloading lorries with covers for the bodies as an experiment for refuse removal and to arrange for motor vehicles to be available for inspection and demonstration.
On the suggestion of the chief constable, the Magistrates committee of the Glasgow Corporation recommends seekingParliamentary powers to enable the corporation to make by-laws permanently diverting any particular class of traffic from any street.
B24 Weymouth Corporation is considering the advisability of declaring St. Mary Street and St. Thames Street as one-way traffic thoroughfares.
The tramways committee of the Bolton Corporation has decided against the extension of the Darcy Lever tramways and appointed a committee to consider the whole question of transport services.
The London General Omnibus Co., Ltd., and certain other bus companies have promised a contribution of £150 towards the cost of the erection of a shelter for bus passengers by the Coulsdon Urban District Council.
Whitby Urban District Council has just taken delivery from the North Riding Engineering Co., Ltd., of Pickering, of a Morris-Commercial fire-engine, with full • equipment, at a cost of £1,000. The engine is capable of pumping up to '400 gallons of water per minute. Guildford Corporation has arranged for Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd., to lend two motor vehicles for experimental purposes in connection with refuse collection.
Enniskillen Rural District Council is purchasing a new fire-engine and appliances for which, in conjunction with the . erection of a fire station, application has been made to the Government authorities for permission to borrow £2,400.
Rugby Urban District Council invites tenders for the supply of a turbine motor pump capable. of delivering 300400 gallons of water per minute, with first-aid outfit and 45 ft. telescopic ladder, as well as for a 30-cwt. tender fitted with a fire-brigade body and arranged so that it can carry the telescopic ladder used on the motor pump as and when required. Alternative prices are required for vehicles fitted with solid and pneumatic tyres. Tenders have to be delivered. not later than January 13th.