29.11.2010

Platform Baskets for Hydrex

UK based rental company Hydrex has ordered 20 41ft/12.4m Platform Basket RR14EVO road/rail self-propelled articulated boom lifts.

The 20 units have been purchased through Platform Basket’s UK distributor Promax Access and will be delivered by the end of the first quarter 2011. The units, which are built to British RIS1530 – PLT Railway standards and have been approved by the British Vehicle Acceptance Body (VAB), and can travel on rails at speeds of up to 8kph/5mph and can tow light rail trailers.
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The Platform Basket Road Rail 14 EVO

They can also handle and work on banked turns with an automatic superstructure levelling system that can cope with up to 200mm/eight degrees of side slope. They will be used for overhead electrification work.
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Hydrex, whose main business is the rental of excavators and wheel loaders, operates from 12 locations throughout England Wales and Scotland and also has a rapidly growing rail division.