SANKEY VARI-DESIGN CONTAINER FOR ROTTERDAM EXHIBITION
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JOSEPH SANKEY AND SONS LTD., of Wellington, Shropshire (a sub-group of the giant Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Group), which entered the freight container field earlier this year, is to show a specially designed unit as the centre-piece of its stand at the NEDEX (international transport, servicing, storage, forwarding and containerization) Exhibition at Rotterdam (24-28 October). The container has been constructed to show, in one exhibit, a variety of designs and claddings.
Designed to comply with ISO and BSI 3951: 1965 specification, as well as the latest ad hoc recommendations, the container incorporates entirely new patented corner castings which permit the corner pillars to be double secured by welding and a special key joint. Crane hooks pass through the corner pillars and the recessed corner casting, making for firmer and safer lifting.
The Sankey container has a one-piece roof, flanged over and riveted to the vertical faces. There are no rivets or screws in the rooftop, which is completely waterproof.
A new sealing system gives a positive continuous door-seal, and special metal closing strips guard against damage or door-closing in the wrong sequence.
Sankey cargo containers are made from aluminium, rust-proof mild steel, or stainless steel. The rating for a 20 by 8 by 8ft unit is 20 tons, with a tare weight of 29/32cwt, depending upon the materials used.
Sankey has geared its production line to meet urgent delivery in quantity. Within its six factories are over 400 presses, ranging from 50 to 4,000-ton capacity.
Durham motorway's first section opens
DURHAM motorway's first section opened to traffic at 4 p.m. yesterday. This is the five and a half miles length from Aycliffe, nozth of the Darlington by-pass A l(M), to Bradbury. Drivers can join it from the Great North Road (Al) at the Aycliffe interchange and from the Bishop Auckland—West Hartlepool Road (A689) at an interchange at Bradbury.
The opening means there is now a continuous 24ft wide dual-carriageways motorway for just over 15 miles from Kneeton Corner, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, to Bradbury, in Co. Durham.