Not so Fishy
23rd January 1976, Page 18
23rd January 1976
Page 18
Page 18, 23rd January 1976
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TO MEET the specific requirements of Young's Seafoods Ltd who needed a hygienic method of transporting wet fish in a vehicle weighing under 11 tons, Tidd Strongbox bodies are being used on Ford Transit chassis.
These van bodies have seamless laminate walls of plywood sandwiched between smooth skins of reinforced plastic. With the heavier timber-framed bodies used before, Young's had found that the juices from the wet fish eventually caused rotting.
In the Tidd Strongbox design, the floor is of grp overlaid with a bonded layer of light-alloy chequerplate and bonded all round into the plastic skin of the body panels.
By weighing under If tons unladen, the Young's Transits avoid the annual hgv test and the necessity for hgv licences.