Cool plates for aulti-drop vans
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LPINE Refrigeration Deliveries Ltd of Staines, Middlesex, who perate distribution vehicles in the liveries of Lyons Maid and indus, has just ordered 38 multi-drop retail delivery vehicles tted with Dale Holdover Truck Plates.
Alcan Transport Products td of Norwich, previously nown as Freight Bonallack, is ) build the 4.2m (14ft) !frigerated bodies on Leyland errier chassis. The Holdover plates are imported into the UK by Refrigeration Supply Co of Market Weighton, York, from the manufacturers Dale Refrigeration Co of the USA.
The system of storage plates is self-contained and cooled by a 3hp condensing unit mounted below the vehicle skirt, or may be plugged into a mains supply for overnight charge cooling.
Each plate is fitted with an eutectic solution. The configuration specified, using two roof-mounted and four wallmounted units, will provide an internal body temperature of minus 18° to minus 21°C (00 to minus 5°F) with up to 60 drops a day.