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OR THE SECOND time a BoaBoy body has won a Design buncil award.
In 1976 Boalloy's Tautliner curtain-sided body received an ward, this year it's the Linkliner (see picture above). This sliding side-door body as several features which the lesign Council judges praised. The side doors run on nylon inners in aluminium-alloy acks top and bottom, rather Ian being hung from the roof. ecause the weight of the )ors is carried by the floor, ie roof is subject to less noral stress and can be made rghter, allowing a greater payload to be carried.
The judges liked the hinged door incorporated in the trailing edge of the leading door on each side. This allows more than half of the body length to be opened for loading.
It also means that if a load shifts against the sliding door and stops it opening, access to the cargo is still possible via the hinged outward-opening door.
Like the Tautliner, the Linkliner is fitted with a glassfibre drag-reducing bow front as standard, eliminating the need to fit bolt-on versions to the cab roof.
An optional fitting to the Linkliner is a full-length loadpicking platform, which hinges upwards to give a platform along the side of the body for a driver to use during multi-delivery work.