Plastics-faced panelling
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• Fifty new delivery vehicles for Lyons Bakery are currently being handed over by J. H. Sparshatt and Sons Ltd., of Portsmouth, in time for the Christmas trade.
The vehicles are purpose-designed jointly by Sparshatts and Lyons and will serve the retail trade with Lyons Bakery products. This is part of an initial order with Sparshatts, who have previously built refrigerated vehicles for Lyons.
Built on BMC FG 360 2.3-litre diesel chassis cabs, with 9ft 6in. wheelbase, the all-metal bodies are specially designed for strength, rigidity and easy repair. They differ from normal construction in that conventional framing has been replaced by the technique of using folded panels. By this means the external panels, which are of Stelvetite plastics-faced mild steel, are formed in a press to incorporate vertical inward-facing stiffening.
Three sheets fixed vertically completely cover the body side, so that the body is particularly easy to strip down and repair when replacement panels are required. Use of white plastics-faced mild steel obviates the need for external painting and gives a long life.
Interior length of bodies is 10ft 9in., height 6ft 1in, and width 5ft 111in. The roofis formed of a single piece moulded glass-fibre section, of Sparshatt design, incorporating a large translucent area.
Wheeled skips are used with these vehicles for quick loading of bakery products and facilities have been built into the bodies to retain the skips without movement.