School meals on trailer wheels
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• Five new trailer units for the delivery of groceries and provisions to school kitchens have been built by Barham Bodies Ltd, of Northampton, for the catering supplies division of Thomas Linnet! and Sons Ltd, wholesale grocers.
They have been specially designed for Linnell, whose Wellingborough catering depot supplies 10 local education authorities in the Midlands and East Anglia, as well as hospitals, welfare homes, industrial canteens, hotels and restaurants.
The use of articulated units is made necessary by the awkward siting of most school meal kitchens.
Each of the trailers has an 11-ton payload and holds eight cages which measures 40in. x 40in. and have a capacity of 30cwt. A vehicle can be loaded by one man in 10 minutes.
The trailer bodies are constructed of light alloy and have twin doors on both the near and off sides at the front and a special rainproof shutter at the back to allow loading and unloading in wet weather. They have a translucent glassfibre panel in the roof, ventilators in the roof and the front bulkhead. and fluorescent lighting.
The box van bodies are mounted on Murfitt trailer chassis and are hauled by Ford D600 tractive units. In order to obtain the maximum utilization from the tractors, three only are being supplied for use with the five trailers. The extra trailer units will also serve as additional storage space when required.