Moving Meals to Airliners
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FOR delivering hotel-prepared meals to passengers in airliners at Karachi Airport, a special type of refrigerated van based on the Commer 11-ton chassis is being supplied to Air France and will be the sixth vehicle of this make recently to enter service at Karachi.
. The vehicle can carry up to 150 plates of food in special containers, whilst there is space below for wines, beverages and ice cubes. Operation will be between the airport and the Auberge de France, some 1* miles distant.
Designed to maintain the inside temperature of the body at 5-6°C. while the vehicle is waiting in tropicaltemperatures, the refrigeration equipment was supplied by the Lightfoot Refrigeration Co. If the temperature rises above the safe level, a thermostatically controlled lamp on the outside of the van flashes a warning. Constructors of the bodywork were James Whitson and Co.. Lid. Other cam mercial vehicles entering service at Karachi Airport are two Commer Avenger 33-seat coaches, two 12seat buses for moving air crew or passengers together with the:r baggage, and a 16-seat personnel wagon for carrying workmen and light freight.
The coaches have Whitson all-metal bodywork and are 27 ft. 6 in. long, whilst the smaller vehicles are 11-ton forwardcontrol vans converted by Rootes, Ltd.