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Leyland Group Service Under One Roof

13th December 1957
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THE first sales and service depot deal ing with Leyland, Albion and Scammell vehicles was opened last week in the Midlands, on the Birmingham-Wolverhampton Road.

With a frontage of 400 ft., there is a single floor area of 64,000 sq. ft. The building houses a repair shop, extensive spare-part stores carrying 30,000 individual items and rebuilt units to a total value of £250,000, and showrooms for new products.

The repair bay alone has an unobstructed floor space 230 ft. long and 130 ft. wide for simultaneous work on over 40 vehicles. There are 10 whitetiled pits and ample modern machines and tools for executing any repair. Day and night heavy breakdown vehicles and a fleet of vans are on call. A roadway 40 ft. wide encircles the building and, if necessary, can accommodate 20 additional vehicles.

Connected to the main building by a covered way is an ancillary block for paraffin washing, storage of fuel, boilers and staff canteen.

Mr. W. K. Parker is manager of the depot. Mr. R. Luckett will co-ordinate all service matters relating to the three companies.'

Sir Henry Spurrier. chairman of Leyland Motors, Ltd., pointed out at the opening that the group was now able to give more attention to home needs, although their overseas trade amounted to 60 per cent, of production, in which 20,000 workers took part.

TWO FOR.TRIAL ON LORRY THEFT CHARGES 0 lorry drivers were sent for trial at Hampshire Assizes, last week, are charges connected with the theft last April of a British Road Services lorry and its load, together valued at £30.000. They were Victor George Lucas, Plaistow, London. E., and Harry Nicholas Croxson, Rainham, Essex. Bail was refused.

The men were accused of stealing the lorry and its load of cigarettes, tobacco and beer jointly with Arthur Allen and Walter Dowsett; receiving the lorry's contents, knowing them to have been stolen, also jointly with Allen and Dowsett; and conspiring with Allen and Dowsett and others unknown to steal the vehicle.

Aldershot magistrates were told by Sgt. E. G. Franklin that Croxson denied all knowledge of the theft.

EXPORTS ALREADY A RECORD

ny the end of November, Vauxhall

Motors, Ltd.. had already exported more vehicles in 1957 than in any other complete year. A total of 76,500 cars and Bedford commercial vehicles had been shipped abroad, beating the company's 1955 record year of 76,071 export vehicles.

In recent months, export shipments have been at the rate of well over 100,000 units a year.


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