MODERN PREMISES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19669, 12 July 1929, Page 7

MODERN PREMISES.

TODD MOTORS, LTD. HUGE FLOOR SPACE. Occupying the whole of the block recently the site of the timber yardi of Wm. Goss, Ltd., at the intersection of Victoria, Peterborough, and Durham streets, the new premises of Todd Motors has a total floor space of 34,000 square feet. The main entrance is from Durham street, and motorists driving into the buiMmg will see Immediately beside theni the office of the repairs manager, who will take a note of the repairs required, the car being then driven into the workshop for attention. A feature of the workshop, which covers a space of 58S0 square feet, is the elimination of pits, hydraulic hoists lifting the cars from the ground to enable them to be seen to. An eighteen feet drive runs right through the building, tnw width being sufficient for two cars to pass each if necessary at any time. In the assembly department there is installed an electric crane capable of lifting weights of 4J tons. It hai a 150 feet travel, a width of 50 feet, and covers 7500 feet. Special attention has been paid to the showroom, which occupies the whole of the Victoria street frontage, and has three entrances. The area of the showroom is 12,000 square feet, enabling no fewer than 45 cars to be adequately displayed by day or night with the assistance of 1000 candle-power floodlignts. In many showrooms great inconvenience is caused through the reflection from outside, which prevents the exhibits from being properly seen. In the new premises, however, this disadvantage has been ovc.Vome by the plate-glass windows installed. The cars on view may be se-en with equal advantage from the driveway in the building itself and from the street. It may also be seen advantageously from the firm's petrol service statipn at the corner of Victoria and Peterborough streets. The main office is so designed that anyone entering the building looking for any department or member of the staff may be seen and given immediate service, a house telephone providing communication with all parts of the building. Another feature of the premises is the provision of traps by m-ans of which water used for hosing the floors, which are of concrete, wall | run into tfcem owing to their being at a slightly lower level than the mam part of the floor. The whole of the rrK> i- •* hava been taken possession of by the firm, w» the exception of the showroom, whic will be oeeupied as soon as the contractors have finished their work in J t-

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