Allibert containers rally to support race
June 1st 2006

Plastic attached lid containers (ALCs) from Allibert Buckhorn are proving themselves in one of the world's most hostile environments, after being chosen to supply storage for race support providers GoRaid on the Paris-Dakar Rally and other off-road events.

More than 200 Eurosized containers are used to store all the parts, supplies and equipment needed by GoRaid to back-up the teams racing Land Rover Bowlers, specialist high chassis off-road vehicles. The boxes are installed on racking in GoRaid's all-terrain trucks known as T4 and T5, which also compete in the race behind the Bowlers to allow them to rescue stranded vehicles and supply any spare parts needed.

Ben Gott, manager of GoRaid, said: "The plastic boxes solve a major problem we had with traditional aluminium kit boxes, which tended to stretch badly with each impact from the contents. After a short while, the lids wouldn't fit properly and then the contents were in danger of spilling everywhere inside the trucks.

And of course, plastic boxes also help keep the trucks' weight down."

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