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Building up in Belfast

8th November 1990
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• Walter Alexander has started building double-deckers for the first time since 1976 at its recently expanded Belfast factory, which was officially opened last week.

It has just completed an order for Dublin Bus for 40 Leyland Olympians fitted with RH bodies.

Dublin Bus plans to take on 48 more of these buses by April next year.

"The factory expansion has increased capacity throughout our operation," says Alexander's managing director Michael Ford-Hutchinson.

"We have re-designed our single-deck in consultation with Ulsterbus and Citybus and have already delivered the first vehicles with the new body style," he says. The new de

sign of single-decker has a restyled front and rear with a deeper window line.

Over the past three years Alexander has pumped £1.7m into its Belfast factory.

The third stage of the factory's development is the opening of a new paint shop and re-equipped sheet-metal shop.

The paint shop includes two spray booths for the largest double-deckers and a paint process control laboratory.

Since work began on the 900m2 extension in 1987, the Belfast workforce has grown from 123 to 207.

Alexander's other factory, at Falkirk, employs up to 670 staff and has produced doubledeckers since it was established in 1942.


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