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Wimbledon's Transport Policy

18th March 1938, Page 71
18th March 1938
Page 71
Page 71, 18th March 1938 — Wimbledon's Transport Policy
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How This Corporation Makes Good Use of a Fleet of Morris-Cornmercials

ALTHOUGH Wimbledon Corporation has a good deal of its municipal transport work done by contractors, it also owns and maintains quite a large " fleet of vehicles for various departmental functions. The whole system is up to date, the vehicles are modern, and considerable economy is effected by their use.

Commercial vehicles were first used by this authority 20 years ago, when two Foden steam wagons were purchased to supplement the many horsedrawn vehicles. At the present time there are only two horsed vehicles still in service, and they will shortly cease to be in commission.

Not the least striking feature of Wimbledon Corporation's use of municipal vehicles is the policy of standardization which has been adopted. Thus, nearly every lorry in the fleet is a MorrisCommercial, and it has been found that interchangeability and other advantages in maintenance which result effect considerable economies in money and time. The average period of service of these vehicles is seven years, and of those in use at the moment none is very

These Morris-Commercials, one gronp

of which is used for highways construction and repair and the other for refusecollection, have, of course, tipping bodies. In the first category there are three 35-40-cwt. lorries, one 30-cwt. vehicle and a 3i-tonner, whilst the corporation also runs a 5-cwt. Morris van, for stores transport and general purposes.

In the second category there are nine 7-cubic-yd. side-loading refuse-colleltors with tipping bodies. Although, basically, these refuse-collector bodies are of standard type, they differ somewhat from normal specification in that the corporation bad the sliding covers and superstructures generally built to its own design.

Used also in connection with highways construction and repair are two road rollers, One is a Marshall 12-ton steam vehicle, the other being a Marshall oil-engined 6-tanner.

The open-spaces department of the borough employs two Ford lorries, whilst motor mowers are also used. Wimbledon Isolation Hospital has two ambulances, and there are, at Wimbledon Central Fire Station, three Dennis engines, one of which is an up-to-date model with a 100-ft. water tower.

The work of street cleansing and gully-emptying is attended to under contract by Mechanical Cleansing, Ltd. The transport part of Wimbledon Corporation's affairs is run really as an entirely separate business ; costs are taken over each year, and a generalservice charge made for each vehicle. All running repairs are carried out at the main depot at Queen's Road, Wimbledon.

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