Milk Floats Designed for the User
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MILK-DELIVERY vehicle bodies which have been developed in close co-operation with dairymen are being built by Messrs. R. W. Osborne and Son, Debden Road, Saffron Walden, Essex. Low loading height and easy access to the crates form two essentials of such a body, and these are prominent features in the Osborne design.
Entry and exit to and from the cab are assisted by the provision of sliding doors, which can be left open during travel', thus speeding up door-to-door deliveries.
An angle-iron skirt prevents the milk
Crates from sliding about, and the wheelboxes are designed to interlock with the crates, so as to maintain a level loading height.
The body is of composite construction, the sliding doors, wheel-boxes and floor runners being in steel. Exterior panelling is in 20-gauge steel. Matchboarding is used to insulate the roof, which has a black top. It has been found that the roof construction employed keeps the load cool in hot weather.
Bodies with integral cabs and incorporating sliding doors are available for Bedford 10-12-cwt. chassis, MorrisCommercial I, LD1 and LD2, and Trojan oil-engined chassis.
For Thames 10-cwt., Austin A40 and A70, Morris 10-cwt., and MorrisCommercial LC5 chassis, bodies to the same general specification are supplied as independent units.
"PASSENGERS SHOULD BACK COMPLAINTS"
PASSENGERS who make complaints against individual drivers and conductors should be asked to substantiate them before an investigating committee or else drop them, a deputation representing platform staff told Hull Transport Committee, last week.
Men were at present being punished on complaints brought by passengers without substantiation, stated the delegation. Often, not even a ticket number was produced.