Thornycroft Building #5 - Store

In the photo below the Store is the building bottom centre of the factory site. (You'll need to click the image for a larger view to see it).

The Thornycrofts Motor Works, Basingstoke, 1928 - Britain from Above

Function

All that is known is that it was a store. Possibly for long poles/beams of wood or metal (See Construction below).

Time Line

This was not one of the inaugural buildings on the site. It may have been built around the first world war and was definitely in place by 1928. It was still present in the 1950s but did not last until the end, probably demolished after vehicle manufacture ceased in 1969.

Construction

Corrugated iron painted white with the main floor raised above ground level. It is not clear from photographs whether the two large 'windows' were in fact pigeon holes for storing materials. One photo does seem to show materials protruding from a couple of the 'panes' and if they were pigeon holes then a similar arrangement for the lean-to is logical. There was a similar arrangement of large 'windows' on the other side of the building that faces the railway line. These may not be pigeon holes as they open onto the public railway!

A small extension existed on the North side of the building.

 The Model

  The next photo shows the model in situ on our full sized layout plan in a similar orientation to the real building shown above.

The design and general construction is the same as the Wood Store.

Due to the uncertainty of windows or pigeon holes these fitments are modelled opaque to represent either. No entrance door shows up in photos so an assumed door has been placed in the extension.

David