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Quicks No 1 in repairs
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• Quicks, the old-established and fast-expanding Ford dealer, has opened the largest — 4,400m2 (47,0000) — accident repair centre belonging to any franchised distributor in Britain. The premises at Park Centre, in the Old Trafford Park Industrial Estate, Manchester, were opened officially by Department of the Environment Minister of State Michael Howard.
Park Centre, catering for cars and light vans, is the fourth to be opened by Quicks in Greater Manchester in the past 12 months (the trucks division, also in Trafford Park — Workshop June '87; Ashton under Lyne and Altrincham).
The new centre represents an extension and relocation of the Ford main dealership in Chester Road, about a mile away. The Quicks Group head office has also moved to Park Centre, where there has been an investment of £700,000.
The layout of the site, previously occupied by BRS, was designed in conjunction with computer facilities provided by Dana through Brown Brothers.
The body repair shop has four lifts — one in a dedicated undersealing bay. Four Car-0liner jigs are available to the 14 bays around the perimeter and used for major rebuilds. Each bay has one of the 80 cages in the parts store.
A separate preparation area is adjacent to the two Spraybake units transferred from the old premises and these contrast with two new Selspray booths — one 3.04m (10ft) high to handle longwheelbase Transits. The gasfired Selspray units are operated continuously; their bakingcycle timer mechanisms have been removed by the maker.
The bodyshop package was fitted and delivered by Imperial Systems of Bolton, which subcontracted to Airniech of Swinton for an air-ring main with 50 air outlets terminated with lubricators and regulators. The ring main is run by two Ingersoll-Rand screw compressors.
Two of Quicks' ovens from Chester Road were refurbished and moved and there are also two DeVilbiss 1.52m (5ft) paint arrestor units.