A lot of years ago around 1992 I picked up a curtainsider fridge trailer with insulated curtains for my company from a place from memory somewhere in Derbyshire. I don’t ever recall having seen another one. Am I imagining it lol.
Lonewolf Yorks:
A lot of years ago around 1992 I picked up a curtainsider fridge trailer with insulated curtains for my company from a place from memory somewhere in Derbyshire. I don’t ever recall having seen another one. Am I imagining it lol.
Culina have a few, they’re quite heavy because of thicker insulated curtains, thicker floor and ceiling, they are effective but have to work a little harder than a standard fridge trailer to keep cool on a hot day, the curtains are hard work to pull open due to their thickness. We used to do an ambient delivery with a chilled return load from time to time so they were handy for a that.
nope they were known as insuliners and offered the flexability of a fridge and a curtainsider . Obviously only for chilled produce (potatoes , mushrooms etc ) and not a lot of use for ice cream and frozen products . Usefull piece of kit but specalised in its application - to heavy for a curtainsider and not flexible enough as a fridge .
cartwright-group.co.uk/Produ … rtainsided
Some of our extra long trailers are curtainsider fridges,with the thicker curtains they can be hard to open in the winter.
Stobrats used them
Gregory’s used to have them… don’t know if they still do…
am sure conway bailey have a few aswell
TAP Freight in Barnsley have them too.
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I’m sure I saw some Dairy Crest ones around in the late 90’s.
We had a fair few at Sainsburys in Hoddesdon.
Know of one lambert from Huddersfield , collects cow hides with layers of ice between them 
Northwards in Aberdeen have about 20 of the bloody things, chilled salmon from the northern isles down to Larkhall then reload salmon feed or of Grangemouth, an absolute nightmare to use, curtains to heavy and to thick, they keep getting caught on the runners
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Just in case you haven’t got enough examples used to be a load liveried up Cathedral City.
I pulled one to Aberdeen once around 10 years ago. I have never noticed another one since then
Yeah I remember the curtains being a pain. I’m pretty sure I’ve got some photos at home, I’ll have a look when i get back
scottie0011:
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+1…
I could never get the curtain more than halfway.
Pulling them from the back to the front (uphill so to speak) was near on impossible.
Another device designed by someone who was never gonna have to open and close it.
What’s the problem with heavy curtains? Surely you don’t open them?
My job description says ‘driver’. Not porter, curtain opener, warehouse lackey, yard operative or any such claptrap…
the nodding donkey:
What’s the problem with heavy curtains? Surely you don’t open them?
My job description says ‘driver’. Not porter, curtain opener, warehouse lackey, yard operative or any such claptrap…
Does that mean…
You can’t operate sliding skellies, twistlocks or open fridge doors then?
yourhavingalarf:
the nodding donkey:
What’s the problem with heavy curtains? Surely you don’t open them?
My job description says ‘driver’. Not porter, curtain opener, warehouse lackey, yard operative or any such claptrap…Does that mean…
You can’t operate sliding skellies, twistlocks or open fridge doors then?
Apparently so.
the nodding donkey:
Apparently so.
I’m thinking of jobs…
Where one would just sit in the cab all day. So far I’ve got roadsweeper and some (not all) tippers.
That what you do?