Craven Tasker M. East order
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CRAVEN TASKER has won an order from a major Middle East defence force to supply 43 high mobility, semi-trailers in mixed capacities of 35 and 40 tonnes.
Produced at Craven Tasker's Woodville plant, trailer specification includes retractable landing gear, as well as a bull nose with hook-up ring for front loading and winch loading on to the accompanying tractive unit.
Load securing arrangements include twist-locks for 10ft, 20ft, 30ft and 40ft containers, floorlocated lashing rings of 1.5 and 3 ton capacity for munitions and stores pallets, heavy-duty demountable headboard and jigbuilt demountable and interchangeable steel sides for general cargo carrying.
Half of the trailers are equipped with Norde rubber suspension of 30 and 40 tonnes capacity, with the others fitted with Task CPS leaf spring on/off highway tandem axle suspension.
The rear of the trailers incorporate a heavy duty tail roller and reaction plate for winch line loading of plant stores and other heavy equipment.
Trilex wheel equipment is fitted to the BPW and Rubery Owen Rockwell heavy duty axles.