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COACHWORK Conversions, the Colne, Lancashire-based body-builder is showing an entirely new side loading body at the NEC this year.
The Clearloader, as it is known is this company's first contender in the side-access, pallet-loading bodywork field.
Based on a Dodge 100 series RG15 chassis, the Clearloader will form the centre piece of the Coachwork Conversions stand 352 in hall four.
Full side access like a curtain skier is available on the body yet it has all the lateral restraint and security features of a sliding door set up, says the company.
When the Clearloaders' two-section side doors are opened, pallets can be loaded or unloaded along any part of the 5.62m (18ft 5in) body without any hindrance from sideposts or the need to shunt sliding doors back and forth.
Basically Clearloader works by having each side door divided horizontally into an upper and lower section.
The top part swings up over the roof thus leaving the roof interior height the same but yet out of the way of for] trucks.
At the bottom the lower hal drops down on rave rai hinged.
These side doors are cor structed from interlockin aluminium extrusions and th effective door thickness is onl 36mm (1.4in).
This means that in a maxi mum external width body c 2.5m (8.2ft) a useable 2.43r (7.9ft) of width is retaine, internally, allowing twi metric pallets to be badel across the width of the vehicl€ As the extruded section have inherent longitudina stiffness, the makers claim, th doors can withstand latera cargo movements while it transit.
From an operational viem, point, both top and bottorr door sections are intercon nected and a rod and sprocket corner pillar links the uppei and lower pivots so that thE two door sections are coun• terbalanced, one to the other.
To open the sides the drivel simply releases the catches and pulls down the lower dooi section. This automatically raises the upper section.