around. The plant has five entrances, the main entrance at the front, which is 14 feet wide, two to the repair department, one at the rear to the main garage and one in the room set apart for the demonstrating car. All entrances measure 14 feet across and are amply high to permit the entrance of the largest motor truck. The building is of brick and concrete construction and is two stories

Fig. 2.-Floor Plan of Small Repair Shop, Showing Location of Pit and Machinery.

in height at the front. The second floor front is occupied by the tire repair department and the stock room. Skylights over the repair department and the garage proper furnish plenty of light from above.

The floor space on the main floor, back of the office and sales room is therefore divided into three sections. The repair department is 30 feet wide by 120 feet long and is situated to the rear of the office. The garage proper is to the rear of the show room

and is 44 feet wide and 120 feet long. The repair dep sufficiently large to employ 18 men. The building is steam which is furnished by a heating plant in the bas derneath the main office.

The floor plan at Fig. 2 is that of a small buildin exclusively to repair work and is suitable as a design f to be placed at the side or rear of a garage. This bui only offers ample room to work on seven large cars but vides for a complete machine tool equipment and ample office and stock room furniture. There is but one entra being located at the front of the plant. The dimension building and the arrangement of the various departmen clearly shown that further comment is unnecessary. Fl are also given at Figs. 3 and 4 for a medium size servic while a large departmentized repair shop is shown at Fi medium size repair shop having a commendable arrange machinery and still leaving ample space for working or number of cars is shown at Fig. 6. In many large cit necessary to use buildings having more than one story on of the value of land in business or manufacturing sections

A typical arrangement of a converted factory buildi has worked out fairly well for a service station is shown at This is operated exclusively as a repair shop and has facilities. The building is of brick and while not as well for motor car repairing as the specially planned structure 6 is, it has been remodelled to good advantage. The bui 165 feet long and 36 feet wide inside the walls. Consideri the building is an old one built before the days when the p of ample light was considered one of the essentials, it is fai lighted during the day as the walls are pierced with man windows. At night a large number of Tungsten lamp gr high candle power furnish the general illumination. Bot are divided into three rooms, the largest 104 feet long being an assembling and storage room on both floors. On the low there is an intermediate room 28 feet long into which the leads that is also used for assembling and overhauling p The remaining small room on the ground floor which is

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long is divided into three parts, one being used for an office, the others for stock and tool rooms, respectively. Nine large pits are provided on this floor and there is also ample bench room. This ground floor assembly department is devoted to work that does not involve taking down a car to any extent such as fitting various accessories, tuning or adjusting engines, repairing clutches, brakes, axles, etc., and other work that will not lay up a car for more than a few days. There is a large door at one end to permit cars to enter directly from the street and a smaller entrance at the other leading directly into the passage way in front of the stock room counter over which the patrons are served. There is also a large door opening into the rear of the elevator, permitting cars to run on the elevator when this is in its lowest position, either from the shop interior or from the street.

The upper floor is divided in much the same manner as the lower one, the largest room being used for overhauling purposes, the 36 x 28 feet room is used as a machine shop, while the small room over the office and stock room is used as a forge and tinsmith shop. A large skylight in the roof of the blacksmith shop gives much needed light on the anvil and bench. There are no pits in this floor but, as is the case with the one below, there is an overhead track extending the full length of the room for travelling chain falls attached to the ceiling. The equipment of the machine shop is very complete and enough tools are provided so that it is possible to duplicate any part of any automobile. The equipment shown at Fig. 6 is also very complete.

In the building outlined at Fig. 6 which has been designed exclusively for automobile repair work it will be noticed that the saw tooth roof and the many windows make for maximum daylight illumination. The windows of the saw tooth should always face toward the north to get the best light and prevent annoyance due to the sun shining directly in during the day. The building may be of either brick or concrete and while the arrangement depicted is very good, the plan may be varied to suit individual requirements. It will be observed that there are two main entrances, one a small door, leading directly into the machine shop, while there is a large main door by which the cars enter the repair shop.