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Euro-bodies in force at show
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• Intermodal and international transport predominated at the Freight Transport Association's bodybuilding exhibition at Torquay last week.
Indoors, Railfreight Distribution took the central stand, showing a 7.12-metre swopbody built to the West German DIN standard. Contract services manager Mike Parker says orders are under negotiation for specialist low-build rail wagons for a pilot dedicated service to start by next March on a long-distance UK route.
Tiphook had a Central Trailer Rentco piggyback tilt trailer on show — built by York, although Tiphook has approached Pacton and Boalloy for a new prototype to be built to the coming 13.6-metre length. An order for 200 could follow.
Tiphook Rail has now ordered its first 100 piggyback rail wagons from Rautaruuki of Finland, and plans to cooperate with Railfreight to provide UK piggyback services.
Outside, UK demountablesystem manufacturer McDonald Kane showed a swap-body underframe which matches the DIN standard. Managing director Barry Kane claims this design would weigh only 300kg more than the company's existing domestic system.
Ray Smith Demountables has already submitted an underframe design for DIN approval, but director David Browning warns that full structural testing for continental railway use could be complex. The company focused instead on a three-body drawbar outfit for its exhibit.
Crane Fruehauf exhibited its convertible curtain-sided trailer, extendible for ,21,000 to the coming Europe-wide 13.5 metre length.
Another trailer innovation was an insulated model de. veloped jointly by Wincanton Bodywork and Overlander, with the neck section inset into the floor to lower the overall height and give an internal headroom of 2.6 metres.
Bedwas Bodywork showed the first insulated version of its flush sliding-door Maxon sideaccess body and the Valle group showed its first aerodynamic Luton body on a MANVW MT 7.5-tonne chassis.
Sparshatts launched a streamlined overcab sleeper pod for its pantechnicon bodywork, and showed a demountable freight body and announcing a new stainless-steel rear frame as standard throughout its range;