Award for new tipper
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E. M. WILCOX Ltd of Peterborough has won a Design Council Award for the outstanding design of its fold-in-side tipper body.
The awards are made annually to encourage the highest standard of design and manufacture throughout the British Industry.
Written evidence from four customers, The Miln Marsters Group Ltd, R. J. Seaman and Sons Ltd, Eastern Counties Farmers Ltd, and Peacock Bros, was examined by the judges before the award was made.
It is the first all-welded aluminium alloy tipper body with fold-in-sides to be produced in Britain. It was initially developed to carry low/ medium density loads on a four-wheel 16-ton chassis or a 9.Im (30ft) trailer. The latest development includes extension panels on the sides to give the body maximum payload capacity on chassis of any gross vehicle weight.
The body can be built with three, four or five aluminium panels each side.
The extension panels fold flat to the side before they in turn are folded to lie flat on the floor to convert the body from bulk to flat.
The body has found favour with farmers and hauliers who carry such loads as sugar beet, grain and seed potatoes, as well as a wide variety of palletised loads.