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London Transport's Big Garage Scheme

25th October 1935
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nN Tuesday, a Press party was con

ducted around four new garages of London Transport, in the north of the Metropolitan Area. The Board has incorporated in its Green Line and Country Bus organizations 74 coach and bus undertakings formerly worked by independent operators. The garages taken over were, in many cases, unsuitable,, and it was essential either to build new premises or to modernize the old garages.

This work has rapidly been pushed forward. Six new garages have already, been built at Amersham, Tring, Hemel Hempstead, Hertford, Epping and Grays. Plans are in hand for erecting new premises at Northfleet, Addlestone, Staines and St. Albans, and for the enlargement and modernizing of the existing garages at Windsor, High Wycombe, Luton and Hatfield. In addition, the .construction of further garages and the rebuilding of certain existing garages are being considered.

The tour, on Tuesday, was made to the new garages at Amersham, Hemel Hempstead, Hertford and Epping. and Mr. A. H. Hawkins, general manager of the Country Bus department, was present.

Wherever possible, the Board, in the design of its garages, provides a separate entrance and exit, but, in other cases, vehicles enter and leave by an approach road between the garage and the offices. The offices are separate from the garage. Fuel-supply pumps are placed at the entrance doors, and behind them are the washing hoses which are mounted on the roof girders.

Plug-in points are provided at the rear of the inspection pits and on the walls for connecting up the vacuumcleaning plant. The inspection pits are faced with glazed bricks, with electric lights set into the walls, whilst plugs are provided for movable inspection lights. Each pit leads into a transverse connecting pit, where. there are work benches. The pits can be covered by removable metal gratings, and close at hand are the tyre store, spare-parts store and the foreman's office.

The practice of employing air compressed in cylinders for the inflation of tyres is followed, and the compressing plant, vacuum-cleaning apparatus and the electric fuel pump are grouped together along one of the walls.

At the four garages visited, a total of 191 vehicles is housed, and attached to them are 643 employees on the traffic side, and an engineering staff of 177.

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Organisations: Press party
People: A. H. Hawkins

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