Country Bus Garage Design Standardized
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THE new bus garage at St. Albans
Road, Hatfield, brought into use by London Transport on Wednesday, is the first of a standardized design for their country depots. Its facilities are particularly suitable where expanded services are to be provided for the growing New Towns.
An open forecourt is bounded by the operating and welfare block. The buildings, pear-shaped turn-round and garden layout present an attractive appearance which can be adapted easily to sites of differing shapes.
The covered bus park occupies a space of 185 ft. by 98 ft. This is large enough to accept 49 buses. With open-air parking for a further 16 vehicles, the total capacity of 65 buses is considered to be the smallest that can use flow-line servicing and washing methods. • The main parking area is spanned by tubular steel trusses, giving unimpeded space for movement of vehicles. Flanking the parking area are foremen's offices, workshops, stores and toilet accommodation. Standard automatic refuelling plant is provided, served from three 5,000-gal. tanks, and there are facilities for bus washing, lubricating and vacuum-cleaning. There are three maintenance pits, a compressed-air ring main and fluorescent lighting to supplement the natural light supplied by extensive glazing.
The new Hatfield garage replaces an earlier building housing 22 buses.
BOARD PLAN FOR WEST MIDLANDS
THE formation of a West Midland
Area Authority, to take over various fnnctions including tire and ambulance services and bus operation, is proposed by the local regional council of the Labour Party. It has not been welcomed by the Socialist members of some Labour councils in the area The bus undertakings of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich and Walsall Corporations, as well as those of companies including the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co.. Ltd., are embraced by the proposal.
NEW TRENT APPOINTMENT /112, J. C. CLYMO, Swansea area Lfitraffic superintendent of South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., has been appointed assistant traffic manager of Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd. He will take up his duties on March I.
He was awarded the Sir William Chamberlain Scholarship by the Institute of Transport in 1955, and under its terms studied transport in the United States.
LOW BUSES FOR SHEFFIELD
FORMING part of Sheffield Corporation's tram-replacement fleet, six A.E.C. 76-seat buses were officially handed over to the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, Ald. J. W. Holland, on Tuesday. The new vehicles are 30 ft. long, 8 ft. wide and only 13 ft. 5 in. high. They cost £5,975 each.