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Cooking up a sliding roof entry
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• With increasing use of overhead and tail-end fork-lift loading, specialist bodybuilders are using slidingroof systems to provide clearer access.
Cooks International Transport Services, for example, is producing TIR tilts and curtain-siders with fully or partly opening roofs using the West German Edscher lattice mechanism.
One version, built for Nissan Forklift Trucks on an Andover Trailer airsuspended tri-axle semi, has a rear-half sliding roof and swing-out cross bar to give clearance when loading.
Full-length sliding roof access and glass-carrying Aframes have been added to airsprung UR tilt trailers for Solaglas to operate from its Sittingbourne depot. They are used under contract from contract-hire rental specialist Fraikin of Feltham.
LPH Products of Ystradgynlais, near Swansea, has developed its own Skyloader folding roof mechanism for use with its range of sliding-root curtainsiders. The new system provides access from above via the folding framework which runs along guide rails in the top sections.
Optional rear curtains or barn doors, and hinged or detachable rear posts provide extra versatility.