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w Fleet for Ids Eye
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1INT exercise by the transport vices manager of Birds Eye Foods 4ick(eover Transport Ltd., Crane uf Trailers Ltd. and Leyland Ltd. will produce a £500,000 fleet w refrigerated vehicles to be d for Birds Eye Foods Ltd. on -riage of frozen foods from the iy's six factories to 45 regional throughout the UK. The operathe vehicles will be in the hands r professional hauliers—Humber )using Company Ltd., Grimsby: J. Kidner Ltd., Beecles: Howell irper Ltd., Lowestoft, and Turners I) Ltd. at Norwich and Man rgcr version of the moulded-glass:ed plastics container body introinto the Birds Eye fleet last year 'onintercial Motor, September 18, the body is 34 ft. 2-5 in. long by Sin, wide. By taking advantage amended Construction and Use ions, the builders have succeeded log loading space for 16 loaded in two rows of eight, in place 12 carried on the older type. ing the width of the body from 8 ft. to 8 ft. 2.5 in. has enabled the wall thickness to be increased with a consequent improvement in temperature control and a reduction in the amount of solid carbon dioxide refrigerant needed to pull down the temperature. The overall wall thickness is now 5.75 in.
It is expected that the average gross loading of the outfits will be in the region of 28 tons and the tractive-units and trailer-equipment have been chosen to handle this g.v.w. at speeds in excess of 60 m.p.h. when cruising on motorways.
The container bodies are mounted on Crane Fruehauf DB-F2 semi-trailer chassis, fitted with three-line air-pressure braking, operating 16-5 in. by 7 in. S cam units, and are to be towed by Leyland Beaver Ergomatic-cabbed tractive-units. These are to be fitted with the Leyland 0.680 engine developing 200 b.h.p., power steering, six-speed overdrive gearboxes and have rear-axle ratios of 6-06 to I.
The new fleet will comprise 60 vehicles and about 80 per cent of the operations will be serving destinations that will be within 30 miles of the motorway network planned to be in operation by 1970. To accommodate the variation of density in frozen food cargoes, the outfits will be capable of operating up to 30 ton g.v.w.
When the first of the new vehicles was introduced on Monday, Mr. C. A. Cardy. transport services manager of Birds Eye, said that his company's business was to manufacture and market quick-frozen foods. They were not interested in setting up as a haulage concern.