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News Release from: British Turntable Co | Subject: Manually operated car turntable
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 June 2005
British turntable revolutionises petrol
sales
British Turntable designed and suppled a manually operated car turntable for a newly created forecourt at the Doubleday Garage in Jersey.
When the Doubleday Garage in Jersey was faced with EU health and safety regulations that would prevent it from selling petrol, British Turntable came to the rescue by designing and supplying a manually operated car turntable for a newly created forecourt at the St Helier site The problem for Doubleday occurred when the new regulations outlawed the serving of fuel over a pavement
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 14 Feb 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The 5 metre diameter, 4 tonne capacity manually operated turntable recommended by British Turntable has revolutionised the business.
In this very unusual use for a car turntable, drivers simply park their vehicle on the revolve in front of the petrol pump; a Doubleday petrol attendant then fills the car with the required amount of fuel and pushes the car round so that the driver can exit the forecourt safely in a forwards direction.
The effort required is minimal.
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Roz Petch, joint owner of Doubleday, explains: "When the new regulations hit it wasn't too difficult to create a new forecourt back off the pavement, although this did require taking half the roof off the old building and constructing a new wall to separate the petrol pumps from the repair shop".
""There wasn't the room for a turning circle, however, and we were still faced with the problem of having cars driving into the forecourt but having to reverse out onto what can be a busy road.
"We'd seen a driveway turntable in action, and at one time there'd been a much larger turntable installed in a bus depot in a cul-de-sac just down the road that enabled buses to be turned round safely".
"We realised that if a bus could be turned round in this way there shouldn't be a problem for our customers' vehicles! A call to British Turntable was all it took to get the right unit for us".
"The turntable works a treat and has helped us get the business back on track".
The car turntable designed for Doubleday in this very unusual application was adapted from a standard, flexible design that allowed British Turntable to tailor the unit to comply with forecourt safety regulations.
This type of revolve is used in multi-occupancy residential and office blocks and other commercial buildings to create better parking facilities in restricted areas; externally, for which the turntable is fully weather- and vandal-proofed, it has been developed to provide easy-to-use car wash facilities and, again, for car parking where space is at a premium.
Larger capacity revolves using mechanical or air film technology are available for HGV and PSV use.
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