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WHO MAKES WHAT in temperature controlled equipment? What are the problems met by a couple of operators in this field? We're looking into this next week. It's an important sphere of operations; it's an expanding business; and it attracts go-ahead hauliers.
• The manufacturers of refrigerated bodies in the UK are becoming a smaller and closer knit community. Many of the smaller companies that have attempted to compete in this specialised business have retired hurt. However, there is still a large choice and next week Bill Brock takes a look at some of them and describes the different methods of construction they adopt.
• Puritan Maid vehicles are slightly schizophrenic — they are frozen, chilled and ambient all at the same time. Puritan Maid handles deliveries to Trust House Forte hotels, restaurants and catering sites and with the aid of some elaborately specified vehicles the company is streamlining what could be a costly distribution operation. David Wilcox reports next week. • Remote location seems an unlikely criterion for siting a temperature controlled transport operation, but DM Transport has turned an apparent disadvantage to an advantage. Thetford may be far from a major conurbation, t it is right in the middle of one of this country's main food producing areas. It too far for many own-account operator: to trouble with, which is where DMT comes in. Bob Greenwood reports.
• There are some new names in the refrigeration unit manufacturing busine: but if you walk to the front of a controlled temperature vehicle in the U the chances are that the badge on the front of the unit will say Petter or Thermo-King. Tim Blaketnore reports the activities of these two leading manufacturers. Both are well aware of t challenge being posed by the newcomer and both have recognised an increasing demand from their customers for highquality control standards. Read how the are responding to this demand in next week's CM.