£78,000 depot for Stockport
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• Although Stockport Corporation had handed over its buses to the SELNEC PTA last year, perhaps the final chapter had not yet been written, said the Mayor of Stockport, Ald James Walton, when on Tuesday he opened the maintenance and parking garage at the £78,000 Daw Bank depot adjacent to the town centre.
Aid Harry Sharp, SELNEC PTA chairman, took the opportunity of saying how he welcomed the co-operation of the local authorities.
Work commenced at the site in 1966 under the auspices of Stockport Corporation Transport on a contract that included maintenance garages, workshops, offices and facilities for the operating crews. These workshops went into commission in October 1967 and the offices were completed the following January. This part of the contract cost £377,000.
The maintenance and parking garage officially opened on Tuesday comprises covered accommodation for some 150 buses with Dawson automatic washers, routine service facilities and similar features. The value of this section of the contract was £403,000.
The local fleet was transferred from the old Heaton Lane buildings to Daw Bank last July. The garage is steel framed with a concrete retaining wall and floors, plastics coated steel cladding and roofing in steel decking. Heating of the maintenance garage and offices is by oil-fired boilers with a low-pressure hot water system. Part of the maintenance section has underfoot heating so as to give a large open floor area. A tunnel runs under-ground beneath Daw Bank, providing a link between the garage and office block on the other side of the road.
Mr Harold Eaton, formerly Stockport Corporation Transport general manager, and now SELNEC Southern division traffic manager, could not attend the ceremony as he has been in hospital for several weeks suffering from rheumatism. However, he is reported to be making good progress.