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DETAIL modifications suggested by drivers have been built into the latest 40 Boalloy Localiner bodies made at Gongleton, Cheshire, for the Coca Cola Southern Bottlers Ltd fleet, Sunbury, Middlesex.
The vehicles make multi-drop deliveries, of up to 20 a day and sliding side curtains are reinforced at intervals with vertical tubes. The curtain hangs from nylon runners and the bottoms of the tubes are anchored to nylon slides running along the bottom lip of the side raves.
Each end of the curtain is attached to a narrow sliding door with an over-centre latch to hold the curtains tight.
The drivers' ideas focused particularly on load restraint.
The body floor, of shallow vee cross-section, cants the loads inwards. An aluminium-panelled A-section partition running down the middle of the body can be quickly replaced if it should suffer pallet damage. This is said to localise repair work and lower maintenance cost.
On either side of the central partition, transverse panels help to secure crated loads.
Four hanging straps on each side help the driver to reach the load, and a continuous stepping rail is fitted below the side raves as well as a protective rubber edge to help minimise fork truck loading damage.