DENNISON TRAILERS
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The panel felt that Dennison's step-frame extendible boat transporter trailer was a good example of a product designed to meet exact customer requirements, and was happy to award it first prize in this category.
Built to move yachts and other pleasure craft as well as working boats up to the size of small trawlers, it has been designed without cross-members; the area inside the frame has also been kept free of brake valves and ancillary equipment. As a consequence, boats with large keels can fit inside the frame and sit just 3oomm from the ground, keeping the centre of gravity safely low.
Nor do the axle beams get in the way—specially designed cranked beams were commissioned from Mentor.
The 13.3m trailer extends at the neck by a further 2.5m, so that boats as long as 15m can be accommodated.
Wilson TS's Concept 2000 trailer clearly has advantages when it comes to the carriage of live poultry. The air in the trailer is changed every 6o seconds, and the system controls the humidity in the load area in all climates. This has contributed to a praiseworthy reduction in the number of deaths of birds in transit.
Unfortunately, the third finalist—King's Swing-Thm trombone trailer—could not be examined by the judges as the operator was unable to arrange for it to be present.
It is equipped with container-handling equipment that allows it to load and unload a box up to 45ft long without additional assistance, and it can stack containers two high.