Oct: Suggestions for standardizing sizes of shipping containers for air, road, rail and water transport cover capacity range from 17 to 1870 cu ft. Nov: Bases for sizes suggested. Dec: Container sizes in relation to dimensions of carriers; suggested dimensions of truck and trailer bodies and railroad container cars in relation to proposed containers and their arrangement in carrier; arrangement of containers in aircraft. (See also Modern Matls Handling v 11 n 10, 11, 12 Oct 1956 p 89-93, Nov p 104-11, Dec p 97-101)


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    Title :

    We're ready now to standardize shipping containers


    Additional title:

    Am Soc Mech Engrs -- Paper


    Contributors:
    Hall, H.H. (author)

    Conference:

    American Society of Mechanical Engineers -- Meeting SA-82 ; 1957 Standardization



    Publication date :

    1957


    Size :

    16 pages


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    We're ready now to standardize shipping containers

    Hall, H.H. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1956


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