Inchicore Chassis Factory

IN-3 — CIÉ Chassis Factory. Office wing and main factory building photographed in 2017

ORIGINAL USE

Production and testing of bus and lorry chassis

CURRENT USE

Warehouse for Office of Public Works (OPW)

LOCATION

Jamestown Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8

DATE

1946-1948

ARCHITECT

Michael Scott

Design team: Pat Scott, Paddy Hammilton, Kevin Roche, Wilfie Cantwell, Kevin Fox, Paddy Corcoran, Bill O’Dwyer (3.1.1)

Consulting Engineers

Ove Arup & Partners

IN-4 — CIÉ Chassis Factory – crane bay. Photographed in 2017

IN-1 — CIÉ Chassis Factory – open plan manufacturing space. Photographed in 2017

BUILDER

G&T Cramptons.

CLIENT

National Transport Company (CIÉ)

IN-2 — CIÉ Chassis Factory – West side of the site designated for future expansion. photographed in 2017

BUDGET

£274,515

Contract signed 11 Jun 1947, work to be completed in 21 months (3.3.1)

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CONSTRUCTION

Steel frame building with open plan work area. 12×6 bays of 9.1m (30ft) spacing. Single row of steel columns spaced at 9.1m in the centre. Crane operating along the full width of the factory.

East elevation glazed in thin-framed aluminium patent glazing (1.7m high x 60cm wide panels) and Aluminex north lights (3.4.2) to allow as much natural light as posssible.

As the factory was about to start, the CIÉ due to financial diffculties abandoned the manufacturing plans, and the factory was given to the Board of Works as a storage facility.

inchicore2 — Acrylics on paper – by Author.