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CONTAINERLIFTS STEELBRO MK6 CONTAINER TRAILER

5th June 2003, Page 41
5th June 2003
Page 41
Page 41, 5th June 2003 — CONTAINERLIFTS STEELBRO MK6 CONTAINER TRAILER
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As Steelbro's UK distributor, Containerlift Sales entered the latest New Zealand-made mk6 self-loading trailer.

With twin loading cranes and auxiliary power unit, the judges thought it heavy at 12.08 tonnes, but saw it as a very useful, selfcontained skeletal trailer that offers low-cost opportunities to make better commercial use of disused railheads.

With optical sensors, radio controls and a hinged stabiliser Option, this versatile tool can handle 20,30 and 40ft containers weighing up to 36 tonnes—in yards, docks or railway sidings.

its limited to one-sided loading but a two-hander is available and heavier—however, that won't faze the military.

Dennison's drop frame lowloader trailer was also regarded as highly versatile. It can be operated at 13.6m with C&U loads but it cleverly extends to 19.7m for Special Types work.

Built for Mitchell Transport, it opens along a two-piece steel box spine and secures by air-operated locking pins.

Equipment can be stacked over the 4.27m neck section but the main load bed is just 910mm high.

West Yorkshire's Micra Truck Bodies thought its Ratchet-Deck curtainsider had a chance in the Special Purpose category too.

Although its main feature is the adjustable triple deck system—it offers 20 different positional choices and they lock in place using simple ratchet devices—the extra floors can be lowered flush with the main decking. That way the trailer becomes just another curtainsider.

SM Trailers cleverly fabricated boat carrier might just help them to corner a small but lucrative niche market.

The trailer features a peripheral frame with skiing box-section rails, and air-suspended drop-centre axles. Closed up within C&U load constraints, it measures 1.76m, but it can extend in three equal increments, to 15.28m, With the open-ended frame and keel supports, it will accept various sizes of propellers and shafts.

Unique Trailer Developments twin-decked trailer is a simple but quite outstanding solution to the problem of transporting palletised tractor cabs. The trailer is based over a peripheral frame with the outer members at the outside edges.

Cabs are carried on two levels, loaded at the rear and then "rolled" down into their travelling positions. Using roller bed tracking down each floor makes their movement much easier.

This cab carrier is an extremely innovative tool for Harris Haulage to transport a number of different cab types.

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