Liverpool's Walton Garage Reopened
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' THE Walton garage of the Liverpool I. Corporation Passenger Transport undertaking, first opened as a horse-tram depot about 1870, and later adapted for electric traction, was re-opened as a modern bus garage by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Ald. Louis Caplan, LP., last week. Walton garage had been adapted for bus operation during the later stages of the tram to bus conversion programme, but the buildings were difficult to maintain and totally inadequate for the large fleet of buses based there.
following the completion of the new Gillmoss garage, all buses based at Walton were transferred there, and reconstruction began. The old administration block was replaced by a new building, housing an administrative and workshop block, the former section of the new building consisting of three storeys, with a large traffic hall on the first floor, and canteen and games rooms on the top floor.
In the workshop block are 11 inspection pits, two of them for greasing, whilst there is space for carrying out repair work on two bus bodies at a time. Each pit and body repair section is accessible through individual shutter doors. More' than 120 buses can be accommodated in the parking area of the garage, and the three original entrances have been widened and fitted with motorized shutter doors. Equipment in this section includes a vacuum cleaning system for bus interiors installed by Sturtevant Engineering Co. Ltd. The refuse collected is discharged into high capacity refuse bins for mechanized removal by refuse collection vehicles.