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Turkeys Travel Cold
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AREFRIGERATED vehicle plays an important part in a turkeybreeding project run by Mr. T. H. Kennedy at Auldgirth, Dumfries. With an average stock of 20,000-25,000 birds, market changes can quickly complicate matters unless buffer stocks are maintained with the use of refrigerators and refrigerated transport.
For the latter, container-type bodies are particularly suitable, because they facilitate unloading in bulk. A new vehicle of this type has recently been purchased by Mr. Kennedy and will be used between Dumfries and London on a fairly regular schedule, and possibly between Dumfries and Thirsk.
The basis of the vehicle is a MorrisCommercial chassis with platform body. Craig-Nicol, Ltd., Glasgow, built the container body, which has Prestcold refrigeration plant. It has accommodation for about 400 birds at a time.
After the birds have been wax plucked, they are wrapped in plastic bags and stored at a temperature of —5° F. until the market demand justifies their transfer to the buffer point.
B42 As the buyers have only a limited interest in the producer, it is the concern of the latter to provide against those periods when the demand for turkeys falls off. Refrigerated transport is the answer, and now the estate is more independent of wide market fluctuations for the birds. This new container vehicle links up with the refrigerated store at Blackwood, the headquarters of the enterprise. By having a large holding capacity, the producer can retain his stock until he decides to sell, instead of having to respond to the dictates of buyers.