Details of Pressed Steel Semis for Danish Bacon Traffic
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HAULAGE BY McVEIGH ?
THE accompanying drawing is the first to show in any detail the design of the refrigerated van with which Pressed Steel Co. Ltd. is entering the semi-trailer market. As announced in April. the company won an order for 400 of these semi-trailers for the Danish Bacon Factories Export Association in competition with 21 other tenders. They will be used between Britain and Denmark and will be hauled by Albion Chieftains. 30 of which will be based at Esbjerg and 40 at Grimsby.
The vans, assembled from aluminium alloy sections on a welded steel underframe, will be built at Linwood, where the Roadrailers come from, while the PSC refrigeration equipment will be made at Theale, Reading. The vans will be 20 ft. long by 8 ft. lin, wide and weigh approximately 7.0 lb. unladen: completion of the order is planned for the autumn of 1966.
Riveting is used to mount the aluminium exterior panelling on the frames, the interior body liner is moulded in glass-fibre plastics and insulation is by rigid polyurethane, foamed in situ. The rear double doors are
insulated. in the sane way and open through 270 to fold back against the body sides.
Special refrigeration equipment has been designed for these outfits and is in three main assemblies: a condensing unit built into an aluminium frame:work and incorporating a Presteold 1+-h.p. cornpressor. a cooling unit on another framework. and a main control panel housed in a weatherproof box. The condensing unit is reached via removable panels at the forward end of the trailer and the cooling unit fan can be serviced through a removable panel in the outside skin. The plant is designed to maintain an inside temperature of —3'C to +5"C in a maximum ambient temperature of + 30 'C. Stainless steel pallets will hold the bacon during transit, the pallets running in roller tracks in the van floor. The outfits will be employed in a new project to bring increasing supplies of unpacked bacon sides from factories in Denmark to consumers in the UK, rapid transit being 'secured by using an East coast port.
The tractive units, The (0,11mm:A Motor understands, will be operated in this country by McVeigh Transport Ltd., and a special refrigerated vessel with plug-in points for the refrigeration units on the trailers is being constructed in Scandinavia, and will ply between Esbjerg and Grimsby, commencing in October of next year.