Fire-Brigade Matters.
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The L.G.S. has sanctioned the application of the Bath Town Council for permission to borrow 000 to he expended on a muter fire-tender with appurtenances. It has allowed the repayment to be spread over a term of ten years.
There are now no fewer than eight established motor manufacturers who have definitely turned their attention to the manufacture of motor fireengines. They have received much assistance as regards the perfection of fittings, from both brigade officers and leading makers, such as John Morris and Co., Ltd., of Salford.
We learn that Brown Brothers, Ltd., of Great Eastern Street, E.C. is doing an increasing business in lamps for fire-brigade Furposes. Officers who realize the importance of good equipment in this connection should not overlook the fitting of acetylene head lamps. and these are also obtainable from the company named.
Above 20 m.p.h.
Captains of fire brigades will be sorry to hear that the superintendent of the Southampton Brigade, Mr. Thomas Johnson, was fined 20s. and costs, on the 3rd inst., for driving at 30 miles an hour. We venture to say that, had the vehicle in question been a fire-engine in course of progress to the scene of a conflagration. the rase would have been dismissed, but it appears that it concerned the brigade's staff motorcar.
We recommend Chief Officers or Superintendents, should any of their firemen be summoned for exceeding 'the speed limit in the eourse of their duty, to plead the exemption contained in a recent statute, which provides: " Where any person is charged before a Court of Summary Jurisdiction with an offence punishable by such Court, and the Court thinks that the charge is proved, but is of opinion that having regard to . . . . the trivial nature of the offence . .
it is inexpedient to in Hiet any punish ment, or any other than a nominal punishment, the Court may without proceeding to conviction make an order dismissing the information or cli arge."
Liverpool's Sentinel.
Mr. Alex. W. Weir, the Chief Superintendent of the Liverpool Fire Brigade, advises its that the Sentinel three-ton steam vehicle, to which we have made several references in recent issues, and which was illustrated by us last week, will be chiefly used as a tender for the conveyance of materials to and from a fire.