Beacon's custom Transit tippers
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• Beacon Tippers, which specialises in bodying 3.5-tonne and 7.5-tonne vehicles with stock tipping bodies, is building four Transit-based tippers to a customer's specification.
The vehicles, which have a floor height 76mm lower than standard, are for hire company Green-Line.
The low floor height is achieved by merging the longitudinal subframe members with the cross bearers, rather than mounting them on top. The dropsides are 300mm instead of the usual 380nun.
Beacon, which builds up to 100 3.5-tonne and 7.5-tonne tippers a month, says its business is holding up in the slump because it has concentrated on offering stock bodies and fitting them to chassis in three hours.
"In today's climate the customer has to have a contract in his right hand before he gets out his pen to write a cheque to us with his left," says Beacon's Bob Tudor.