Moonlight and Roses
Page 60
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
EVEN by industrial standards, road transport establishments .1-1 seem particularly apt to be utilitarian in appearance so that visitors to the headquarters of R. Hanson and Son Ltd., at Newmillerdam, halfway between Wakefield and Barnsley, have been known to drive straight past. Which is precisely what happened to The Hawk! Well-tended flower gardens front the administrative building and the vehicles circulate largely out of sight in the wide space behind, the whole -being backed by deep woodlands. A private road runs through the trees to the workshops. Here a new block with the most modern equipment is all ready to go into action. The engineering side is largely on a "moonlight shift" and the fact that all the routine maintenance of the 180-vehicle section of the fleet located there takes place at night adds to the somewhat deceptive impression of quietness that distinguishes the extremely busy focal point of this West Riding group.