CRAVENS HOMALLOY Stand 51
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Cravens Homalloy (Preston) Ltd., Homalloy Works, Blackpool Road, Preston, Lancs.
A TIPPER BODY, platform body, two ISO containers and a bread van of aluminium construction are included in the exhibits on this stand together with an insulated body of moulded glass-fibre sandwich construction and a second insulated body of glassfibre/polyurethane sandwich construction.
Mounted on an Albion RE33T chassis and elevated by an Edbro 5LN twin-ram' front-end gear, the tipper body is U-shaped and has a length of 17ft 3M. The platform body has a length of 24ft and a width of 8ft, and is based on an Albion Super Clydesdale CD65ALW chassis, while the container is a 20ft by 8ft by 8ft unit and has a laminated floor.
The moulded glass-fibre body has a length of 13ft, is equipped with a Prestcold refrigerating compressor unit and is based on a Bedford KDS chassis having a wheelbase of 135in. while the bread van is mounted on a Ford D200 chassis of 120in.-wheelbase.
A very recent addition to the Homalloy range, the aluminium tanker has a length of 40ft and is mounted on a Homalloy skeletal semi-trailer chassis. The glass-fibre/ polyurethane insulated body is based on a tandem-axle semi-trailer hauled by an AEC Mandator tractive unit.