Refrigerated Vans as Mobile Cold Rooms
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L'IGHT refrigerated articulated outfits
are being added to the fleet of 300 vehicles operated by J. Hanson and Sons, Ltd., milk distributors. of Liverpool. Two of the refrigerated vans. with Austin tractive units, are already operating and when the other six are delivered it is intended to run a shuttle service between the company's main dairy in Long Lane and their distributing depots in the Merseyside area and north Wales. Each van carries two Sterne cooling units operated by two .1-h.p. electric motors mounted outside. The bodies are wired up to take mains current and when the vehicles are at the central dairy or any of the depots, the motors are connected up by plugging in to suitable power points.
Corrugated aluminium. is used to line the interior of the vans which have an inside length of 21 ft. Full-width doors are used at the rear and, to facilitate
loading and unloading, doors are built into the sides.
Outward loads normally consist of 350 crates each containing 20 pt. bottles of milk, and the return loads from the depots normally comprise 400 crates of empty bottles.
The chief object of using these vans is to obviate the necessity of immediately unloading the milk when it arrives at the depots and, further, the vans can be loaded at the central dairy and kept in readiness for dispatch in accordance with the dairy time table.
They are, in effect, travelling cold rooms and as such save equipment and the space it would occupy at the depots.