Major buy for Suffolk dairy
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• St Edmunds Dairies of Bury St Edmunds has taken the first of Osborne Motor Bodies' new Safeload-Major range of insulated, sliding-side-access delivery vehicles.
The 4.72m body system is based on a 3.96m-wheelbase 7.5-tonne GVW Iveco Ford 75E14 New Cargo chassis. It offers a net payload of 3.0 tonnes.
Construction comprises an aluminium frame with one-piece white GRP faced five-element panels and 75mm PU foam insulation to roof, floor and bulkhead.
Top-hung sliding doors move on nylon rollers outside the rear shuttered compartment — which is racked out to carry bread — to gain maximum aperture width.
Ladders are fitted each side of the front bulkhead to provide access to the engine/mains powered Hubbard 485 refrigeration unit for maintenance. The Saffron Walden-based bodybuilder also produces larger versions of its smaller Safeload range.