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A LARGE FACTORY FOR BUIL DING BUS AND COACH BODIES.
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MHE extensive modern factories of Hall, Lewis and Co., -E. Ltd., 14, Cockspur Street, London, S.VV.1, at Park Royal, London,W., are busily engaged in the cohstruction and mounting of a wide :range of bus and coach bodies, chiefly of the larger type. Additional floor space is urgently required, and steps are being taken to add to the capacity of the works.
The G.W. Railway have placed an order with this firm for several 32-seater buses mounted on forwardcontrol-type Guy chassis. The greater part of the room of each bus is provided with a deep-boarded enclosure, access to which is afforded by an iron ladder. In addition to the hind entrance, an emergency exit is provided behind the driver's eabin, a sliding door being mounted on the front bulkhead.
The seats in the rear compartment are made to lift up so that the luggage accommodation may be increased when necessary. The side lifeguards are detachable so that the buses may he shipped by rail. The windows are fitted with Q.T. winders and the roof with Muirhead ventilators. These buses have aluminium waist and cant-rail panels.
Amongst the other orders in progress were a batch of 20 26-seater front-entrance buses, half a dozen six-wheeled Karrier single-deckers for the Halifax Corporation, some elegantly designed coaches with curved-over tops to the panels, additions to a fleet of buses for South Wales and some interesting saloon buses fitted with detachable tops.
These "Devon Generals" have the side panels extended below the chassis level in the latest style, and can be used either with a saloon top or a cape hood.
The company has a well-equipped machine shop for dealing with all kinds of body fittings and furniture.
Domed-top back panels are frequently demanded for the
modern bus. Instead of fitting the panel in sections and hiding the joins by screwing on mouldings, an unblemished surface is maintained by welding up the back, top and end side panels in one piece.
In the joinery and cabinet shops were some ingeniously designed folding tables with glass tops. These were arranged to be concealed in a small recess behind the scat. We were also shown some inlaid work which was to be used
for panelling the interior of some long-distance buses.
The sequence of manufacturing operations is well organized for smooth running; the various jobs advance up the length of one long shop and then return clown another, passing on their way through the varnish room.
. The 'quantity of prime ash plank in stock is truly enormous, apart from other sheds which are devoted to the storage of other classes of body timber.