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A&M builds UK Transpolar
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• Norfrig's first UK-built Transpolar reefer semi-trailer has a slimmer chassis than the monocoque Kassbohrer version, giving it a clear 2.438m internal height within its 4.0m overall outer limit.
Built at A&M Vehicle Builders of Norwich — one of Norfrig's two UK bodybuilding outlets — the trailer has a shallower goose neck, reduced by some 40mm in the rubbing plate area that is integral with the body floor.
One-piece GRP sandwich panels with a high-density polyurethane foam filling have integral alloy cappings that allow them to be lock-bolted and bonded together. Outer edges are finished with strips of anodised aluminium and the floor is a one-piece birch ply decking with a non-slip covering.
The Transpolar, built for Reading haulier Pulleyn, has an internal width of 2.47m to accommodate two rows of metric pallets and ensure adequate airflow space around them. A front-mounted Thermo King SP250 is fitted, with a seven day chart recorder. These are fast becoming the norm, in line with Transfrigoroute's recommendations to the DTp that they be made compulsory.
Norfrig's air management system can be modified to suit underslung freezer units, but this halves the side stowage capacity.
Pulleyn's reefer has a neat Henderson Hydris underfloor tail-lift and SAF running gear. Its air suspension has a lifting front axle and a ride height adjustment that is useful for dock loading. Unladen the Transpolar weighs just over 9.0 tonnes, of which the air management system accounts for nearly 500kg.
This summer Norf rig plans a £1.0 million development at its Danish panel and assembly production process plant, which will enable it to produce one-piece 3.25m-wide panels in lengths up to 17m to cater for any increase in dimension limits. It has also produced a twin-deck design whose intermediate floor can be raised to the roof, and a return air bulkhead. It features an inset lift to serve the second deck in anticipation of an EC directive banning the use of external lifts for quick or froz'en goods when not under full temperature
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Other plans include stepframed, high-cube trailers with over 80m3 and multi-purpose vehicles for garments and temperature-controlled work.