Well spotted, the details…
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Indeed and ECT (European Conatiner Terminal) started effectively in May 1966 in the “Eemshaven”
with SeaLand-business (established by the inventor McLean, a former US-truckdriver dealing with the
long time needed to load and unload trucks/trailers and therefor invented the box, which was at first
a lift of the whole trailer), some time later in the Prinses Margriethaven with the ACL-business and the
Hapag-Lloyd-business. Understandably the whole operation started earlier than 1966 by feeder-services
of containers from supplier to the terminal and preparation in general. The registration stays with the
chassis from day 1 till the end, so previous other owners? Somehow Beers was involved to provide and
deliver about 20 Scania-Vabis-chassis with then a necessity for front-cabbed chassis to gain extra volume
by about 7 cbm. -
To be honest no exact info on the cab-builder but my first guess is a mix of Paul and Hoekstra or at
least a modification of one of them.