Dobson demountables for Commercial Continental deliveries vehicle
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• Deliveries to France of packs of highdensity polythene material by vehicles with demountable bodies by C. K. Addison Ltd, of Louth, Lincolnshire, will provide a means of safe-guarding the polythene from damage as well as quick turn-round of the prime mover for a return trip with an empty body to the UK. Later on four or five demountable bodies will be used with one prime mover. Exports of polythene are planned to Holland and Germany by the same means.
All the vehicles in the Addison fleet are equipped with demountable bodies and include nine Leyland Mastiffs, converted by W. E. and F. Dobson to six-wheelers for operation at 24 tons gvl.v, the remaining prime movers being Leyland Super Comets and Albion Clydesdale 16-ton fourwheelers. The box containers are 2211 long internally in every case and have a height and width of 811. They are built by Reg Watson (Coachbuilders) Ltd, of Nottingham, to the design of the operator and are equipped with T41 demounting gear produced by Dobson, of Coflick Industrial Estate, Nottingham. While the six wheelers carry a payload of 15 tons, the payload of the four-wheelers is 8,+ tons. , Features of the body include steel uprights designed to withstand the pressure of heavy rolls of material stacked lengthwise, heavy-duty rear doors, a glassfibre roof, heavy-duty cant rail and Joloda floor tracking. The bodies are mainly constructed of aluminium.