Telex Ensures Quick Spares Deliveries
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TO ensure speedy delivery of Morris1 Commercial spares in Gloucester, the new premises of the Wicliffe Motor Co., Ltd., arc supplied by their Cheltenham. stock-control branch, who are in Telex communication with the Cowley works. Wicliffe are operating a special spares van which visits the vehicle factory every day to maintain the 140,000 stock at Cheltenham. They receive more than 3 tons of spares a week from Cowley.
The company are Morris-Commercial distributors for the Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud areas. Their extension at Mercia Street, Gloucester, covers 10,000 sq. ft., and the installation includes a double sunken workshop, fitted with a Wakefield waste-oil collection system, with movable draining pans which discharge into an outside tank.• This enables mechanics to combine work on two vehicles at floor level, whilst a third vehicle can be lifted on a 3-ton electrically operated machine.
Departments separate from the floor area comprise a welding shop, tool store. bulk-oil store, battery-charging room and an injection-testing bay. There is also a mess-room for the mechanics.
Service equipment includes a 50-ton hydraulic press, a mobile jib crane and mobile lubricator, a high-pressure washing machine and a paraffin cleaning tank.
NIGHT ON THE MOTORWAY I F. mOtorways were to be economic, they would have to be used as much by night as by day. Standard lamps should therefore be placed at least every 50 yd. at a height of 25 ft., and have an output of 3,000-8,000 lumens for every 100 ft. of road where the carriageway was up to 40 ft. wide.
These recommendations were made by Mr. J. T. Grundy and Mr, P. G. Harrison, of Siemens Edison Swan, Ltd., when they lectured at a conference on public lighting held in Leeds last week.