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The 32 Ton limit had created a boom time for manufacturers not only of trailers but vehicle makers who turned out many new models to cater for demand, previously older eight wheel rigids were cut down to three axle tractors and new configurations of Twin Steer and Twin Rear Steer units hit British roads to enable the 32 Ton limit to be easily met within the restrictions. The move to longer 40ft trailers now meant normal 4x2 tractor units could legally handle the gross weight so by the end of the Sixties many new outfits appeared with combined lengths what at the time seemed far too long for the roads of Britain, the maximum artic length being just short of 50ft. Many customers would exclaim that they had never had anything as big delivering to their premises and doubted the driver’s ability to reverse such a thing into the narrow entrances to loading areas.

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