To Maintain 80 Vehicles
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NEW B.O.C. DEPOT PREVIOUSLY maintainedat a separate garage, the vehicles which serve 9,000 customers at 11.000 deliver points with industrial and medical gases produced at th Brinsworth, Yorks, works of British Oxygen Co. Ltd. are no serviced and repaired at a new garage which has been boil at Brinsworth itself.
The layout of this new maintenance depot is shown above the central garage area has three working pits with fluorescen lighting and a fourth hay has a flush-fitting 16-ton-capacit hydraulic hoist. Over one of the pit bays is a 1-ton travellin hoist. The greasing bay has an unusually long pit (48 ft.) whic enables two vehicles to be serviced simultaneously.
A preventive maintenance system is employed, vehicles bein docked at 2,000 miles for greasing and inspection and at 6,00 miles for oil change and a 40-item check.
Tyres and body repairs are not dealt with by this depoi which employs 14 men. The 80 vehicles comprise Fade 12-ton, Albion and Bedford 7-ton, Bedford, Dodge and Thame 5-ton cylinder lorries, and Foden 24-ton, Scammell 24-tor Albion 14-ton and 10/11-ton and Dennis 10/11-ton tankers.
The photograph on the left shows the main garage area o the Brinsworth depot, with Foden, Scammell and Bedfor vehicles being worked on at three of the maintenance bays. Th Paden is shown on the 16-ton hoist.