61
Present Total (1921) P.E.
OTHER Charges,—Continued.
13
})
O.C....
$
40,543 36,700
77,243
Proposed Total P.E.
0.0.
59,102 49,500
11
108,602 Recurrent.
SPECIAL EXPENDITURE,
Provided.
Sup. Vote.
Estimates 1921 2 Motor Pumps with Extension Ladder
..$15,400
1 Tender Kowloon
21
1922 1 Turntable Ladder
37
1
""
1 Motor Pump (Kowloon)
$16,600
1,500
35,000
18,000
Smaller items such as 3 way collecting heads, nozzles with control, electric torches, etc., etc., are included under the head "Stores ".
Alterations on Floats are included under the head Other Charges".
SPECIAL ITEMS.
1 Searchlight with dynamo and cluster of lights for No. 1 Fire Float
3.
$6,000
A special P.W.D. Supplementary Vote will be required to fit up temporary Fire Brigade premises in Wanchai
E. D. C. WOLFE, Esq.,
APPENDIX (C).
E. D. C. WOLFE,
Superintendent, Fire Brigade.
LONDON COUNTY
COUNCIL.
London Fire Brigade,
Headquarters,
Superintendent,
Hongkong Fire Brigade,
Central Police Station,
Hongkong, China.
Southwark Bridge Road,
London, S.E. 1.
15th February, 1921.
DEAR SIR,
Replying to your letter of the 4th February, 1921, I have pleasure in subjoining the information you ask for :-
Turntable Ladders.
The last two actual ladders were purchased in 1914 just prior to the War, direct from Messrs. Magirus, of Ulm-Danube, these being complete with electric elevating gear, etc. The cost was £600 each. The work of mounting the ladders on the chassis was carried out in our own workshops. The chassis (supplied by Messrs. Tilling Stevens of Maidstone, Kent) was a petrol-electric but some alterations were carried out at our direction to make the chassis suitable. For instance the height of the chassis frame had