Volvo Service at Chingford
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• The new London service centre of Ailsa Trucks Ltd, UK concessionaire for Volvo commercial vehicles, is now completely operational. Situated off the North Circular Road (A406) at Chingford, the two-acre site has a workshop of 6000 sq ft and a stores department of 2300 sq ft. Workshop facilities include seven service bays, one having a 30ft pit and an Epco jacking unit. The centre also has a full range of mobile servicing equipment for lubrication, repair and overhauls normally associated with such an establishment.
A comprehensive stock of spares covering the F86 and F88 range of vehicles, including units reconditioned at the depot, is kept in the stores.
Staffed by six Volvo-trained fitters and one apprentice, the workshop is operating at near peak capacity-40 to 50 vehicles per week.
There is adequate scope for extending the stores to include a second floor, giving a further 2000 sq ft. Proposals are also in hand to extend the workshop by 5000 sq ft and to use a drive-through service system in it.
It is understood that service and maintenance contracts will soon be introduced for which the scale of charges has now been drawn up.
• Anglo-Danish Food Transport Ltd is to build a new depot costing about £250,000 on the South Humberside Industrial Estate, Grimsby, on a site of some six acres. The company began operating in the town four years ago and will now dispose of its premises in Riby Street. Bacon-handling will continue to form the major part of the company's business, but the storage and distribution of other foodstuffs will be handled. By the end of this year the company will have increased its fleet of refrigerated trailers to about 1200.
• UOP I3ostrom (UK) Ltd has appointed J. F. Duffield and Son, 304 Constitution Hill, Norwich, commercial vehicle agents and body builders, as distributors for the range of Viking suspension seating in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.