TRAMWAYS FOR INVERCARGILL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1911, Page 3

TRAMWAYS FOR INVERCARGILL

INVERCARGILL, 26th January. The Borough Council to-night accepted the following tender in connection with the electric tramways about to be installed, the cost amounting in all to £42,642 :— Powerhoute plant, National Electrical and Engineering Co., £16,092; permanent way material, John Duthie and Co., Wellington, £10,643, and Richardson, Blair, and M'Cabe, £2123; car bodies, Boon and Co., Christchurch, £5255 ; car equipments, National Electrical and Engineering Co., £3883; car trucks, Brush • Electrical Engineering Co., England, £1100; overhead material," Richardson, Blair, and M'Cabe, £1899 ; wires and cables,, National Electrical ,C 6., £I{jS2; steel poles, Stewart and Lloyd, Glasgow, £604; tower wagon, Briscoe and Co., Invercargill, £105; dog spikes, Briscoe and Co., Invercargill, £545; street lighting plant, Electrical and Engineering Co., Dunedin, £957 ; gun metal fittings, Thomas Danks, Christchuvch, £202; iron fittings, Booth and Mac Donald, Christchurch, £212. The contracts accepted were not in every case the lowest, that particularly for lighting being accepted because it 'is the same system as is used in the powerhouse, whereas the only other tender was a rival system but £22 lower. The specifications were specially arranged so as to give Dominion firms an opportunity to tender.