A Container Built for a Heavy Hanging Load A MEAT-CONTAINER body
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designed In take a stress on its roof of 1 ton to each 2 ft. of body length has recently been completed by Messrs. Benthom's, Lavender Walk, Leeds, 9.
With a framing of angle iron, the interior is panelled to the top rail with Noral 51St. E.7957. a corrugated section 0.08 in. thick and 6l ins. wide. The body shown in the accompanying illustration has a sliding door on the near side, and to enable it to move freely when the body is carrying hanging carcases, a housing is built out from the interior wall
At the rear are two swing three-quarter-length doors, the lower portion at the rear being covered by a tailboard with an inbuilt step. The exterior of the body is panelled in 18-gaugc aluminium sheet. A special feature of the design is that the container can be hoisted on any normal type of platform body without interfering with or fouling existing choci, rails.
The overall height and width of the container are 7 ft. It is to be used for local delivery work and is therefore not insulated, but for the long-distance haulage of carcase meat, the design lends itself to the addition of this feature.