Steel replaces timber for dmpside
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A STEEL VERSION of its timber dropside builders' truck is to be introduced by Hawson-Garner Ltd, Sunbury on Thames, at next month's Commercial Motor Show. While retaining many of the timber body features, such as removeable corner posts at the rear, this body complies with all EEC legislation. It is being introduced because of the escalating costs of timber.
The body sides, front and tailboard are of folded Zintec steel sheet. The body will be shown mounted on a new Leyland chassis replacing the JU and J4 Austin/Morris models.
In the Hawson-Garner vans, the latest introduction is a range of integral bodies, called Clearload, designed for mounting on Ford A-series
chassis. Body capacities range from 11cum to 17.4cum (396 to 620cuft) according to wheel base. Body weights are from 381 kg to 546kg (71/2 to 103/4cwt), approximately, allowing for plenty of payload under a gross weight of 3 tons.
These vans are being bankstocked and are intended as modern equivalents of the Clearway which was popular about 10 years ago, based on modified Thames Trader chassis. The body affords access from driving compartment to body interior, or direct into the load space by stepping through the sliding doors. The A-series scuttle is integrated with the front of the body, which has a deep two-piece flat windscreen.