This Welsh Guy Keeps the Milk Cool
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SEEN in an accompanying photograph on one of its daily runs across the Welsh hills is a new Guy Invincible whose use fur the carriage of milk in controlled conditions avoids the fluctuations in temperature which occurred previously when road-rail-road hauls were employed between dairy and distribution point
The vehicle has a refrigerated body built by Silverdale Motor Bodies Ltd. equipped with a Thermo King PA.40D refrigeration unit with electric drive, and is operated by J. E. Woodhouse Ltd. for Central Dairies of Newtown, Montgomeryshire.
Fresh milk cooled to 38-40F in farm tanks is collected from the farmers in an MMB insulated tanker which delivers it to Central Dairies for pasteurization and bottling, after which the refrigerated Guy hauls the bottled milk to a distribution point near Aberystwyth, where it is transferred to a cold store-.-still at 38-40°F.
The Invincible, supplied by S. Hughes (Commercial) Ltd. of Leeds, has a Gardner 6LX engine, six-speed overdrive gearbox and a double-drive bogie with limited-slip third differential. The chassis has brakes at all axles and is fitted with Syndromic automatic lubrication.
Weighing 8 tons 18 cwt. unladen, the Guy carries a 15-ton payload whose usefulness is increased because Central Dairies are using lightweight bottles and plastics crates. Use of plastics saves 8 lb. a crate compared with metal, a gain of 4,800 lb. for a 600-crate load.
Despite the hilG, nature of the route, the vehicle is said to be returning an average of 10 m.p.g.