Sunbeam Production Moved to Guy Works
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'THE machine shop of the Fallings I Park factory of Guy Motors, Ltd., has been expanded to cover 60,000 sq. ft. and the production of Sunbeam trolleybuses has been transferred there from Moorfield Works.
Increased output at lower cost was the•object of the move, said Mr. Sydney S. Guy, chairman and managing director, on Monday. Some components, such as frame members, steering parts and spring-hanger brackets, would be common to both electric and internal-combustion models.
New buildings covering 18.000 sq. ft. have been erected at Fallings Park, and some new machines have been installed, as well as those brought from Moorfield. To save space, bar steel is now stacked horizontally, instead of vertically, and racks are arranged to give access from both sides. Special storage racks for completed engines, used in conjunction with fork-lift trucks, have reduced the floor area required from 4,500 sq. ft. to 650 sq. ft.
The first trolleybuses to be made at Fallings Park are destined for Penang and the second batch will be supplied to Hull Transport Department.
The relative costs of running motorbuses and trolleybuses, said Mr. Guy, often depended upon the development of hydro-electric power schemes, which determined the price of current.
£400 FINES ON HAULIER
LINES totalling £400 plus £5 5s. costs
were imposed upon James William King, of Thornton Road, Bradford, the proprietor of King's Road Transport, by Bradford magistrates, last week. He was fined £50 on each of four charges of using an unlicensed goods vehicle, and £100 on each of two summonses for using an identity certificate with intent to deceive.
Prosecuting, Mr. E. Wurzal said that in 1951 a Mr. Alfred Knopwood and his two sons took out a carrier's licence. The father died later and since then the vehicle had been run by King as his own, using Knopwood's identity certificate. The sons were not in the business.