CITY COUNCIL'S BUSES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19384, 20 July 1926, Page 13

CITY COUNCIL'S BUSES.

MODERN GARAGE !N USE.

HIGH EFFICIENCY OBTAINED.

Efficiency has been aimed at in the establishment, of a garage for the housing and care of the Cify Council's 30 motor buses alongside the new tram depot on the Freeman's Bay reclamation. The garage, which is a spacious, openfronted building in reinforced concrete, with a frontage to Halsey Street, has accommodation for 32 large buses and there is a well-equipped workshop where all repairs can be carried out. The garage stands well back from the street and in front there is a wide court paved in concrete, serving not only as an entrance to the bay 3 where the buses are housed but providing facilities foe the washing of trie vehicles. Ihe filling of the petrol tanks is also done here, the service station on the street line being equipped with two petrol pumps and underground reservoirs. The aim of the tramway department is to keep the buses in a high state of running efficiency and a trained staff of motor mechanics is kept steadily employed overhauling and testing the vehicles and remedying any defects that may develop. This work has been systematised and each evening the mechanics go over the mechanism and make any adjustments necessary, these duties are so arranged that each evening one component part of each bus is examinedand attided to where M Than on one night the carburetters are dealt with, the elect™ «|«p- ■ « another and ° n "j e3Ce ll e nt running L"L,d th. »lty of «» £«£■* L-dbe i* » f}.„ tvrM being repaired and to mncn to h Oi.work »» lone outside*.