MOTOR NOTES
Aurora, Ill., received a tractor for its ladder truck last week.
Clinton, Ill., received a White motor hosechemical wagon last week.
Allentown, Pa., volunteer firemen have endorsed the action of the city to motorize the department.
Hammond, Ind., has specified Sewell Cushion Wheels for the new apparatus which they are now purchasing.
The Alliance, O., fire department, of which A. S. August, of East Liverpool, was formerly chief, is to receive a motor chemical engine soon.
The new motor pumping engine of Jackson, Miss., which was on exhibition at the recent convention of the International Association of Fire Engineers at New Orleans, has been accepted.
M. F. Collins, the Boston representative of the Robinson Fire Apparatus Company, of St. Louis, Mo., has changed his office from 170 Summer streeet to 136 Frederal street, and is now known as The M. F. Collins Company.
The tests made of the new American-La France motor ladder truck at Waterloo, la., last week were satisfactory and it has been placed in service in the central station. In the tests the truck was driven through sand and mud, and up the nearest approach to a hill that could be found in Waterloo. On a straight run the truck made 47 miles an hour. Practically every fireman at the central station is trained to drive one of all of the three motors in service.
