New semi-trailer range to meet future C and U Regs.
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ANEW and extensive standard semi-trailer range, designed to meet botl: current and anticipated C. and U. Regulations, is being introduced b3, the Duramin Engineering Co. Ltd., Harbour Road, Lydney, Gloucestershire, A new production line now being laid down for manufacture of the standard range will be additional to the existing facilities for trailer production.
Introduction of the new range which covers platforms, coil carriers, SuperFreighter integral vans, tippers and skeletals follows the appointment last year of Mr. Tom Hicks as sales manager of the company's trailer division.
There will be eight standard platform semi-trailers, covering single-axle designs for 18 to 24 tons gross train weight (12 to 16 tons payload), tandem-axle units for 28 to 38 tons gross (22 to 28 tons payload), and three-axle models for 32 to 42 tons gross (23 to 30 tons payload). Three standard coil carriers will be produced in light alloy and three similar units in steel. And the alloy Super-Freighter integral van range and the steel tipper range will both comprise seven models—two single-axle, three tandem and two three-axle—for gross train weights from 18 to 38 tons (payload from 12 to 28 tons). Tipper bodies will be available in light alloy if required.
There will be seven standard skeletal semitrailers, a single-axle design being designed for a gross train weight of 24 tons and a payload of 18 tons, while three tandem-axle skeletals are for gross weights from 28 to 38 tons (payload from 22 to 29 tons), and three three-axle units for from 32 to 42 tons gross (payload from 24 to 32 tons).