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NEW BODEN SKELETALS
EQUIPPED with a special twistlock container locking device, a new range of skeletal trailers, the Mark 3, has been announced by Boden Trailers Ltd., Royton, Oldham, Lancs. It includes single-, tandemand three-axle types that cater for outfits up to 15 m. (40 ft.).
The type numbers show capacity, number of axles and length of container it will carry. Thus an FK24/1C is a skeletal trailer for a g.c.w. of 24 tons having a single axle designed to carry a C-type 20 ft. container. An A-type trailer is 40 ft. long, and B and D types 30 ft. and 10 ft. respectively.
The standard 13 m. range comprises the FK28/2C, the FK30/2B, the FK30/2BC (to carry a 30 ft. and a 20 ft. container), the FK32/2B, the F14:32/2BC and the FK32/3B. The entire range is designed to enable any type of tractive unit to be employed with the trailer according to its rated g.c.w.
The spindle, assembly comprises a onepiece locking head and register and a pivoted cross-bar rotated through 90 degrees to lock the head in the corner casting of the pedestaltype container, the bar being secured by a spring-loaded catch in the twisdock housing. Easily removable from the housing, the spindle assembly can be applied to the company's platform skeletal trailer to allow conversion to a full-width platform trailer suitable for carrying flush-based containers.
Interchangeability of spindle assemblies between housings is particularly beneficial when the trailer is equipped with multiple housings to cater for varying lengths of container.
Of welded construction, the main frame comprises I-section side-members, tubular cross-members with vertical stiffeners providing controlled flexibility over the shackle brackets, pressed-type container supportmembers, stress diffusers located ahead of the shackle brackets, flange stabilizers and deep box-section tapered outriggers.
The no-hop suspension systems incorporate rubber-bushed adjustable radius rods and adjustable drag links. The S-cam brakes are operated by a three-line airpressure system.