York's new trailer body
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NEW bodywork for their range of Europa TIR trailers has been announced by York with the Middle East run in mind. For it has been designed to provide easy removal of the super3tructure and more cimple repair work in countries where service facilities are a big distance apart.
There are three major modifications in the new body. Firstly and most easily recognisable are the new 76cm (2ft Sin): cold rolled steel drop;ides and tail board. The new iropsides are as light as preiious plywood/steel, but have a higher resistance to impact Ind can be simply repaired by welding on a patch in areas without proper truck servicing 'acilities. Over centre locks lid bodywork rigidity.
The second change is the longitudinal tubular steel roof bows. The new lightweight steel tubes lock inzo rubber blocks fitted to removable transverse roof bows. The rubber blocks absor:, vibration and prevent the roof bows from becoming dislodged dur jag the journey.
Easily removable posts are provided enabling one man to remove a post by simply lifting the spigot bar on the bottom of the post, allowing the post to be pulled outward and removed without removing the superstructure. All posts are interchangeable and any two adjacent posts can be removed to give a clear unobstructed loading space of 7m (23ft 2in).
Twenty of the new TIRs have just been supplied to Iran.