BOOST STEETLEY PRODUCTIVITY
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STEETLEY Transport Ltd. is more fortunate than many other Clicensees. It has a two-way demand for transport; incoming, for raw materials; outgoing, for delivery of the finished product.
For Steetley Transport, a superbly organized autonomous concern, is a subsidiary of the Steetley Co. Ltd., which takes its name from a village near Worksop, Notts, and is said to be the largest producer of refractory materials in Europe and the Commonwealth.
In the IJK, the Steetley Organization has three main divisions: the dolomite, with works at Cadeby (Yorks), LlyncIys (N. Wales), Taffs Well (S. Wales), Coxhoe and Thrislington (Co. Durham) and at Whitwell (Derby); the refractory brick at, Steetley, Brassington (Derby) and Cleveland and Oughtibridge (Yorks); the magnesia, with a plant at Hartlepool in Co. Durham.
Steetley Transport (general manager and engineer, Mr. P. L. Knight) has its principal office and depot at Shireoaks, near the Group headquarters at Gateford, Worksop, and offices and sub-depots at Oughtibridge, Cadeby, Taffs Well and West Hartlepool.
Its operations are well-sited to cater for the Group, but in spite of this and the fact that distribution in the UK is by rail as well as road, private hauliers are also used.
Steetley has reduced empty running to a minimum by fitting tipping gear to most of its fleet. Up to three years ago, almost the entire fleet consisted of rigid vehicles. Now because they give greater productivity, artics predominate. In this category, Steetley is standardizing on 28-ton g.v.w. units and has more than 20 Leyland Beaver tractive units with 35 Scammell semi-trailers fitted with Edbro 7CAN twin-ram front-of-body tipping gear.
Designed to transport raw materials to the Group brickworks and carry palletized loads of finished products to customers in most parts of Britain, the tipping semi-trailers have Cravens-Homalloy light-alloy bodies, 24 ft. long, 8ft. wide and 21 in. high.
Similar Cravens-Homalloy bodies are fitted to Steetley's Leyland Octopus and Albion Reiver rigids, all of which are equipped with Edbro 5LN twin-ram frontend tipping gear. The company also operates several tankers with Edbro tipping assemblies, as well as smaller artics for carrying miscellaneous products.
Steetley does all its own servicing and repairs in first-class premises—servicing at night and repairs and MoT-equivalent inspections during the day.
The maintenance staff includes a skilled bodybuilder, who rebuilds cabs as well as bodies. All new vehicles are delivered in primer and painted at Shireoaks in the Steetley Transport livery of off-white with black lettering.