Drivers' Hostel on the Grand Scale
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FACILITIES which embrace meal service and lodgings for road-transport drivers and, accommodation and service for their vehicles, are being provided in Yorkshire at Dean Hurst, a one-time mansion. It is at Gildersome, on the Leeds-Huddersfield route, at a point only about half a ,mile from where a main north-south artery, the Bradford-Wakefield road, intersects at Gildersome cross-roads. The establishment is open for 24 hours daily, with the exception of a week-end break from 1 p.m. on Saturdays until 10 a.m. on Sundays.
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The venture is sponsored by Dean Hurst Motors, Ltd., whose managing director is Mr. Benjamin Spink, himself a Leeds haulage contractor. For a night's lodging, with an evening meal and breakfast, the inclusive charge is 6s., and 26 diners can be accommodated simultaneously. Present output reaches about 50 mid-day dinners per day, but the kitchen capacity is equal to about 150. The charge for dinner is Is. 8d. More dining accommodation may ultimately be provided.
The house is surrounded by parking space for about 40 vehicles, and there are six fuel pumps: The garage and repair workshop, which has a pit, can deal with about a dozen vehicles. There is equipment for pressure-greasing, valve and valve-seat refacing, vulcanizing, oxy-acetylene welding and spray painting, with a Highjack crane for handling engines.