All-round loading for metal coils
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• Roller shutters afford direct access to the pallet-loaded metal strip products carried in any part of the body, in a new
van put on the road by Ano-Coil Ltd, of Bilton Road, Bletchey, Bucks.
A total of five alloy roller shutter doors are incorporated in the body, which was designed and built by Barham Bodies Ltd, of Motspur Drive, Northampton. On each side there are two 7ft 6in.-wide full-depth shutters while an aperture of similar width is provided at the rear.
Hasps on all five shutters give an equivalent degree of load security to that achieved with a fixed-sided ban.
Behind the rear shutter a hinge-down tailboard is provided to assist at one of Ano-Coil's loading points where crane rather than fork-lift loading is employed. It is 3ft Gin, long and of particularly robust construction with pivoted side support stays designed to withstand imposed loads of up to 30cwt. Transverse load locating and retaining bars stand clear of the chequerplate-covered main floor, dividing it into four main pallet loading bays.
Apart from the box-section rear door frame in steel, the body is constructed throughout in alloy. Unladen weight on the 12ft 7in.-wheelbase Bedford KG chassis-cab is 4 tons 5-fcwt.