CITY MOTOR INSPECTOR.
RESIGNATION OF MR. P.o. SPRY The city motor inspector (Mr. Palmer O. Spry) has handed iij his resignation to the City Engineer, consequent on his appointment to the wireless division of the Post and Telegraph service. Mr. Spry has been with the corporation for about . . . years, first as chief mechanic and electrician to the Central Firo Brigade and for the past ten months as city motor inspector. During tliis time Mr. Spry has had charge of the corpora tion motors, of which there are now nine — six motor fire engines and three other cars, fie has had lifteen years' experience- with engines of the internal combustion type, and for the J&st few years hus mode a special study ot wireless telegiaph\. in which he has conducted extensive experiments, largely with apparatus of his own design. Hi's work in his new position will, it is understood, be chiefly in the erection and installation of wireless stations and in connection with the increasing tit-e of 7>o\u«r plant urd machinery in tlie Pufetal >eryke. -Mr. Stay will take- up hi. new putitkm as mji.ii) v.« ariangunivnls havo been made by tlie City CuwiviJ for hitf fluoi'tsaui'. " ~ ~ ,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 72, 25 March 1912, Page 8
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196CITY MOTOR INSPECTOR. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 72, 25 March 1912, Page 8
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