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New Workshops Save Dead Bus Mileage

4th September 1959
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entral works for the vehicles based ield from Lincoln.

original workshops operated by )mpany consisted of two large airaangars. relics of the 1914-1918 war. were substantially built and their roofs and wide doors made them able shops for double-deck buses. hey were, a course, far too small 'ommodate an expanding fleet. The it building is both an extension and wetsion of the original hangars, the brick pillars of the old shop for ain support of the new roof.

Asbestos Insulation sses, intermediate pillars and s are of reinforced concrete. a:1 by corrugated-asbestos sheeting. tion is provided by an inner os lining and patent glazing is used ively for outside walls, internal oning and roof lights. The result is arkably light and airy shop which. light, requires little assistance from iorescent tubing. Oil-fired heating I throughout.

works is planned with the large area as its focal point. Brace' Heath supplies parts and equipto all the outlying depots of the my and big storage space is ed. This is provided by rows of iins with adequate circulation gang' between them, and there are issuing serving each of the departments ag on the stores.

rly one-third of the building is led by the body and paint shops, A which can accept six vehicles at Adjoining the body shop are a mill, panelbeating shop and ers' department. The signwriters commodated above the paint shop; isement displays and destination tor rolls are prepared on the spot, Is for overhaul are passed from a store to a stripping and cleaning bay. equipped with degreasing plant of generous size. The unit shop itself is furnished with stands for axles, gearboxes and engines and the benches are admirably lighted. Adjoining the unit shop, the machine shop has a full complementof drills, lathes and grinding machines, as well as specialist equipment. such as a connecting-rod boring bar. a cylinder borer and a main-bearing boring machine.

The fuel-pump room, lined with white tiling and favoured with large windows, houses a Hartridge injector tester. Hartridge test bench and a Merlin nozzle grinder. The same scrupulous cleanliness is maintained in the Setright ticket machine repair room. A sizeable plating plant adjoins the battery-charging room.

Minor overhaul of vehicles engaged in the Lincoln area is carried out in a large dock shop. There are five pits, two of which have side hays for underfloorengined vehicles. In the open, and conveniently situated near the entrance to the

dock shop. there is a hoist and a chassis steam-cleaning plant through which buses scheduled for overhaul pass before inspection. In the original building, a test hay is being constructed for runningin and testing reconditioned engines.

The engineering department offices occupy a building, once the traffic office, adjoining the main works. Here. in addition to accommodation for the chief engineer, Mr. I. R. Kydd, his assistants, draughtsmen and clerks, is a self-service canteen for the whole staff. Finally. between the two buildings, the company has established a flower garden, large enough to supply the requirements of the booking and inquiry offices at the St. Mark bus station.

Maintenance at Bracebridgc Heath is of the "planned preventive" type in which mechanical items are based on mileage intervals and body items on intervals of time. Complete overhauls of major mechanical units, engines, gearboxes, axles and so on, are carried out at 240,000 miles. The minor overhaul occurs at intervals of 60,000 miles, So far as bodies are concerned, each receives a minor overhaul and repaint every two years and a major overhaul at eight years. The fleet numbers some 450 vehicles.


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