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Eventual site of AC Block Production Facility on 3 floors
Top Floor was paint shop and trim shop.
Middle floor was Body in white, press shop, and final assembly
Basement was a Sub assembly area, Stores and inspection area, There were two Becker lifts where pallets of material were loaded onto rollers, these lifts supplied material to both sides of the assembly line, there was also a tyre bay where wheels & tyres were assembled to the vehicle build schedule, They were then put on conveyor that took them up to middle floor to the tyre drops on the final assembly line 41A where they met the car they were scheduled for,at this point the car went onto the track on its wheels while operators worked from below to fit exhaust systems etc, while on the conveyor other operatives fitted components to mate up with the power unit in the engine bay,along with connecting up the brake circuits, at the end of the 41A conveyor the battery was fitted,the radiator was filled, a gallon of petrol added, then the car started and driven off the line to have the tracking set and the headlamp beams aligned. '