Halley' s London Depot.
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Mr. G. McNeil Sharp, the London representative of Halley's industrial Motors, Ltd., of Yoker. near Glasgow, who some months ago took possession of extensive garage premises, in Causton Street, Vauxhall Bridge Road, is now comfortably settled in his new quarters, where the organization is so complete that Mr. Sharp and his assistants are enabled to undertake any kind of work in connection with Halley vans and lorries, from the simple operation of the washing down of a vehicle to its complete overhaul. Many London owners of Halley vans and wagons have already availed themselves of the conveniences afforded at the garage. and a large number of vehicles is now regularly stored there each night—the garage em
ployees undertaking all tile necessary cleaning, and tlie adjustment of parts, and, generally, keeping the machines in a high state of efficiency. Amongst those users, who have entered into contraets with Halley's for the maintenance of their fleets, are Bourne and Hollingsworth, Ltd., The Civil Service Co-operative Society, Ltd. (The Haymarket Stores), Marshall and Snelgrove. Ltd.. and other well-known owners.
The equipment of the depot .includes an underground tank for the storage of 600 gallons of petrol, and from that vessel the spirit is lifted, by means of a semi-rotary Willcox pump, to an elevated and graduated tank, from which the fuel may flow, by gravity, into the petrol tank of any vehicle standing within the range of the wire-bound flexible supply pipe. The petrol-tank filling arrangements are shown in one of our illustrations. and in that view a smaller tank, or drum. below the graduated measuring tank, may also be seen : the ( apacity oi this small drum, which may be filled from the graduated tank above it, is exactly two gallons, and by its employment any number of two-gallon tins may quickly be filled, and their value charged up to the vehicle for which they are required. The illustration adjoining that of the fuel-handling apparatus shows a number of vehicles in the large covered yard at the depot ; this yard is large enough for the accommodation of 12 or 15 vans at the same time, but, in addition to this space, there are three commodious warehouses at one side of the yard, and in these there is room for an additional 25 or 30 vehicles. On the opposite side of the yard is the repair shop, and over that are the general offices and stores. A large and carefully-selected stock of replace parts is kept in hand for general overhauls and emergencies. The equipment of the repair shop is by no means extensive, but it is enough for the company's needs, and the few machine tools which have been installed are well chosen ; they are not there for the making, or " adaptation," of spare parts, because all such parts are made strictly to jigs and limit gauges, at Halley's works, and do not need any further tooling, or practically any fitting, before being embodied in the chassis for which they are made.
The existence, in London, of a well-organized repair department and a liberal stock of selected spare parts, with the whole organization controlled by one who is thoroughly in touch with all the latest developments at the Halley works, at Yoker, cannot fail to earn the approval of all owners and users of Halley machines.