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DIFFICULTIES OF BREAD DELIVERY BY MOTOR.

19th August 1924, Page 20
19th August 1924
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The Pros and Cons of Different Types of Body with Particular Reference to the Experiments of a Liverpool Concern.

JOADING problems, especially in .4 the case of certain classes of commodity, have occupied attention ever since the earliest days of the use of motor vehicles, and as much attention is being applied to them to-day as at any previous period. Some loads present greater problems in this respect than do others. Bread and the fancy productions of the master baker, for example, although not awkward loads in themselves to handle, must be transported with due regard to their nature and under the most hygienic conditions, and,

to fulfil these requirements, roomy and well-ventilated vans the bodies of which are arranged to carry tiers of trays, each accommodating a dozen or more loaves (according to their size and shape), are largely employed.

T-he illustrations which we reproduce on this page show three types of van body with which experiments are being conducted by a well-known Liverpool company of bakers and millers, Ben

B38 jamin Sykes and Co,, Ltd., who possess a number of retail bakers' shops throughout the city, and who have a fleet of about 10 motor vehicles, includ ing some of Thornycroft, Traffic, Ford and C.P.T. makes.

Generally speaking, bakers exhibit a preference for vans which can be loaded and unloaded from the rear, for the chief reason that the withdrawal of the bread on trays does not in any way interfere with the movements of pedestrians, as is liable to be the case if such operations are conducted from the sides. It is not argued that the van with doors at the rear is without ifs faults, for it is generally admitted that with this form of construction the load or portions of it are most inaccessible.

If the van be of such a length that it accommodates four tiers of trays, only one section is immediately available— that to the rear.—and this clearly means that if a load has to be divided between, say, four shops, the driver, upon making his first deliveries and returning with empty trays to take the place of those which have been delivered, has to .rnanoeuvre these trays during his de

livery period until the last loaded tray is out of the way.

Side loading and unloading ovrecome these objections, and that type of body in which the sides are divided into sections by a series of roller blinds has much to recommend it in so far as it enables any part of a load readily to be reached. Here, again, there is a certain disadvantage. In some towns the footpaths are extremely narrow, and in removing the trays from the vans pedestrians are liable to be inconvenienced and obstruction caused, whilst if the off side be used objections might reasonably be expected from other road users. Then there is the type of van which has the side panels divided.

A type of vehicle which is also used is that in which the body can be lifted off the chassis, thus enabling the vehicle to be used either as a van or as a lorry, according to the exigencies of the occasion. Such a machine is illustrated on the previous page. So far as the vehicles engaged in bread delivery in Liverpool are concerned, both those with side and end doors are utilized, although the latter seem to be in the majority, chiefly because loading and unloading operations from this position are less liable to cause obstruction on the narrow footpaths.

Two of the factory bakers in Liverpool own novel advertising vans, the bodies being so shaped as to represent loaves, and a body of this type on a vehicle owned by Messrs. Sykes is illustrated; it will be seen that good loading space is available in its interior. Advertising value is thus obtained without loss of part of the carrying capacity.

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