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All set for night and day maintenance at this new Heaton's Transport depot
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UP-TO-DATE equipment for the provision of a day and night maintenance service for road transport vehicles and space for 2m, cubic feet of storage are among the features of new prentises in St. Helens of the Heaton's Transport and Warehousing companies, which are being opened today by Mr. C. R. Hodgson, North Western Licensing Authority and Mr. P. H. R. Turner, chairman of the Road Haulage Association.
The fleet of 45 vehicles operated by Heaton's Transport (St. Helens) Ltd. has been built up in 12 years since the 1953 Transport Act provided for the return to free enterprise of part of the nationalized fleet of road haulage vehicles.
But the name of Heaton has been a familiar one in road transport since the original company Robert Heaton and Son was founded in 1899 with horse-drawn vehicles and furniture vans.
In addition to the Heaton's fleet, between 20 and 25 vehicles collect and deliver each day at the new warehouses.
These consist of 100,000 sq.ft. of covered storage, 25,000 soft. of which is heated by warm air from two oil-operated heaters. The warehouses are brick and steel buildings 20 ft. to the eaves, with asbestos double-lined insulated roofs.
Contamination and other risks are avoided by the use of partition walls which make it possible to store almost any kind of general goods.
Five fork-lift trucks for loading and unloading include one 3-ton model and two 2-ton models. They can also be used as cranes to lift boxvans and other large items.
Covering 75 ft. by 50 ft. the workshop has one large pit and one small pit where three tractive units can be serviced at the same time. A bay is available to accommodate the largest trailers. Vehicles may be lifted by a 10-ton Kismet twopost hydraulic lift. Automatic oil draining equipment is available as well as automatic retractable service feeds for engine oil, gear oils etc. Fuel is supplied by a separate pump fed by an 8,000 gal. diesel storage tank.
Air and water come from a separate tower but air connections are also available every 20 ft. along one side of the 55 ft. roadway running through the full length of the premises.
Apart from Saturday afternoon and Saturday night, a continuous day and night maintenance service is provided.
Of the 45 vehicles in the present fleet, 40 are 15-20-ton articulated flat vehicles and vans. Services are provided anywhere in Britian where customers require it,