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VAL-BASED PALLETAINER BOOSTS BOX DELIVERIES

21st April 1967, Page 48
21st April 1967
Page 48
Page 48, 21st April 1967 — VAL-BASED PALLETAINER BOOSTS BOX DELIVERIES
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Keywords : Packaging, Pallet

KNOWN as the Palletainer delivery vehicle, a Bedford VAL-based pantechnicon is being operated by Clarkes Boxes Ltd., Mountsorrel, Loughborough, Leics., to deliver loads of some 10,000 boxes in pallets to its customers.

The Palletainer system has enabled loading and unloading times to be reduced from 1+ hr. to around 10 to 12 min., which has increased the number of deliveries that can be made by a vehicle in a day within a radius of 30 miles from two to three.

Evolved by the operators in conjunction with the bodybuilders, Crawford, Prince and Johnson Ltd., of Syston, Leics., the body has a timber frame, pillars and bearers and is panelled in aluminium. The VAL chassis is extended by the use of folded channel-section steel members to give a vehicle length of 36 ft.

Customers have acquired additional pallets for storage and internal movement, the pallets being mounted on two fixed and two roller-bearing castors. Two sets of channel-section runners attached to the vehicle floor can each accommodate six pallets having a height of 7 ft., a length of 5 ft. and a width of 3 ft. 6 in. Three of the pallet sides are covered in 3 in. mesh and the remaining side is open.

The pallets are elevated to deck level by a UST 1-ton tailboard lift and support for the load is provided by two hydraulically operated jacks. The entire rear opening from pillar to pillar is occupied by a Dover Nyloy up-and-over shutter.

Cab features include a full-width coach-type windscreen and full-length doors having drop windows. A special facia features a switch panel on which are mounted all electrical instruments and so on. Dual screen wipers and windscreen washers are electrically operated.

Unladen weight of the vehicle is 5 tons 18 cwt._ and with the addition of 12 empty pallets the weight is increased to 7 tons 7 cwt. Carrying a typical load of 10,600 shoe or slipper boxes and with a half-filled tank of fuel, gross weight of the vehicle is about 8 tons 11 cwt.

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