The latest Gray & Adams – built addition to the refrigerated fleet of Scottish craft butcher John M Munro is now hard at work, making deliveries throughout the Highlands & Western Isles.
Gray & Adams’ insulated and heavily reinforced body is fitted with four roof-mounted, aluminium T-style rails, each with 10 double-barbed stainless-steel hooks. It is based on a 16-tonne DAF LF 260 chassis supplied by the Inverness branch of dealer Norscot Truck & Van, while Carrier’s versatile Xarios 500 refrigeration unit and MXL 1100 evaporator provide single-temperature cooling.
The UK’s leading manufacturer of temperature-controlled transport equipment offers a range of trailers and truck bodies purpose-designed to carry meat. Customers can choose from a variety of rail options, while high-performance insulated panels provide superior resistance to impact from heavy carcasses – each hook on John M Munro’s new vehicle is capable of holding two quarters of beef typically weighing 75 kg apiece.
A fourth-generation family business founded in 1922, John M Munro operates six shops across the north of Scotland, as well as a modern abattoir and cutting plant in its home town of Dingwall. The company sources all of its high-quality meat from local farmers and markets – the rich pastures surrounding the Moray Firth are renowned for producing first-class beef cattle and lambs.
John M Munro runs a fleet of five temperature-controlled trucks and three vans, which were also insulated and refrigerated by Gray & Adams. The award-winning manufacturer’s headquarters are in Fraserburgh, north of Aberdeen, but the new truck, like another similarly specified 16-tonner supplied a year earlier, was built at its Dunfermline production facility.
