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STUDYING THE BREWER'S

22nd June 1934, Page 36
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NEEDS IN LORRY BODIES

Popular Styles of Body for Beer Transport Vehicles and How They May Be Improved. Facilitating Loading and Unloading

ACLOSE-BOARDED body is, on account of the nature of the load, not essential in a vehicle for the transport of beer and other liquid refreshments. If close-boarding be preferred, it is usually utilized for a bold display of writing.

Although some protection from the weather, especially front the heat of the sun, is desirable, many plain platform lorries are used. The barrels are kept in position by stakes and chains. As the chains are detachable, unloading from each side is facilitated, particularly when the stakes also are removable.

Moreover, chains adapt themselves to the shape of the barrels and are sometimes fitted instead of a tailboard.

Closely allied to the platform lorry is that which has skeleton sides. There are two or more raves and the uprights consist of iron rods with wood corner pillars. This framework supports a centre name board.

A large lorry of this pattern often has side doors. In this instance there is a continuous board at the top, under which the sides open.

Barrels may be dumped on to a rope fender, or slid down a ladder which is hooked to the long pin at B22

the sides and hack of the vehicle. Crates are also unloaded by ladder.

If the vehicle is to carry a mixed load of barrels and crates, the lastnamed may be accommodated in a special front compartment consisting of two transverse shelves with access from each end. Each shelf is wide enough to take a double row of crates.

The brewer's van may have a boarded tilt or a loose sheet and hoops. Below the waist the sides are slatted. The tailboard is framed to match the sides and is hoarded on the inside, so that it may be used as a loading platform. The sides are also often hinged on their lower edges.

For unloading crates and small barrels, the opening does not extend above the waist. As an alternative to the hinged door, a sliding one may be mounted.

Similar to the tilted van is the pattern which has a boarded roof,

but has openwork construction both above and below the waist. According to the length of the body, so the sides have two or three drop gates below the waist, whilst above it are fixed or detachable rails or slatted doors. The back of the body has a tailboard, above which may be waterproof curtains, or a pair of doors of similar construction to the side ones.

A vehicle which is to carry only crates is of interest to the mineralwater manufacturer as well as to the

beer-bottling concern. House-tohouse deliveries are usually made by means of a plain platform lorry with front and back boards and a sunk floor. Some of them have no weather, protection, others are roofed and, occasionally, are equipped with roll-up side curtains. Crates are piled on each other and, with due care in arranging and classifying the load and placing the empties, this

simple plan does not entail any undue loss of time.

Nevertheless, a midway shelf should be an improvement in order to obviate, as much as possible, the lifting of crates to expose others beneath, With sufficient headroom provided, this idea may be deVeloped so that there is a separate deck for each tier of crates.

The number of side pillars should be restricted so as to ensure easy access. To save weight, the upper decks, also the back of the lorry, are of skeleton construction. A platform step which extends for the full length of the body, except for the interruption of the rear wing, facilitates unloading from the upper decks and gives access to the roof, if this be required for empties.

• The dairyman's, platform lorry for carrying churns often has a built-up wheel-arch so that two churns may be carried at this point. The main portion of the floor is 9 ins. or 10 ins. lower than it would be had the wheelarch been omitted. This idea does not appear to have been adopted for the brewer's or mineral-water manufacturer's vehicle. With the dairyman's lorry, the size of the top of the rectangular wheelarch enclosure is determined by the base area of the churns, but when crates are to be considered it is an advantage if the height of the builtup wheel-arch be not less than that of a standard crate.

The wheel-arch enclosure is made as long as the width of three crates The top of this enclosure extends fol the full width of the body, there being a bridge across the centre of

the loading portion. This raised floor is sufficiently high to enable crates to be slid under it.

In order to obtain full advantage of this special construction of the wheel-arch platform, it should be located in such a way that a definite number of crates may be accommodated without loss of space both in front and behind the wheel-arch. To do this, it may be necessary for the centre line of the wheel-arch enclosure to be a few inches either in front or behind the rear-axle centre.

This type of lorry is accessible from the rear in order that crates between the wheel-arches are easily reached. A rear opening the full width of the body is not required, therefore a pair of wide back palm is fitted, between which is a tailboard with a hooked rod above to retain the upper crates in position.

The box-van is the best type if it be specially desired to keep the load at an even temperature. The body has double panels with an insulating lining.

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