There were almost 1,000 visitors on the first day
An Artic Raptor welcome to the show
Booms everywhere - the crane and access sector was very well represented
An operator of the future?
Crowland Cranes also showed off the 55 tonne QRT55 Zoomlion Rough Terrain crane.
The new Zoomlion QY35v truck crane created a lot of interest with at least two sales at the show.
The Youngman stand which included its new self propelled Boss X3X-SP
Versalift has a large stand as usual which included this LT23TB Mazda pickup mounted platform
First time exhibitor was Toyota Materials Handling.
Steve Hadfield of Ranger Equipment with Arjen Snijder, European export sales director for Teupen announcing the signing of the five year distribution agreement.
Designed specifically for the UK is the Terex Challenger 3180
Tadano Faun had several cranes on its stand including this ATF 40G recently sold to Berry Cranes.
Spierings was showing a six axle machine in John Sutch colours.
Skyjack once again had an impressive stand
The impressive MEC Titan 40S in Riwal colours
The Power Scissor is attracting a lot of interest due to its simplicity and minimal maintenance
A PB S175-12ES scissor on the new UK distributor's stand - Bravi UK.
The PASMA Village
Tracked Access said the first Palazzani XTJ32 in the UK created a lot of interest including a shipyard in Scotland interested in the XTJ's ability to reach up to 5.0 metres below the horizontal.
Possibly one of the most unusual exhibits at the show was this multi-purpose Multihog with Socage A314 platform.
Cautrac was showing this Marooka MST 300 with Niftylift platform
The Marketplace was very busy.
Once again pianist extraordinaire Lincoln Noel entertained at the marquee during lunchtime.
We did hear that a couple had travelled from Bermuda to see Liebherr's new radical LTC1045-3.1 City crane - another first showing outside of Germany.
Compact Lifting Equipment was showing two Italian-built JMG cranes in their distinctive lime green livery.
The JLG X14J spider platform was a first for most at the show.
99 red inspHire Balloons..... The inspHire Balloon Race Competition was started by John Ball, Easi Uplifts and Graham Dobbs and Karen Miles of inspHire to celebrate the recent launch of inspHire-iX.
Possibly the first sale of the show and probably the biggest - Rod Abbott of Link Belt distributor NRC shakes on a deal with Stuart Proud of North Midland Construction for the 70 tonne Link Belt TCC 750 telescopic crawler.
The GGR team with its range of Unic mini cranes - built from lego!
Jerry Kist, export director for Multitel with some essential reading!
There was a steady stream of visitors for most of the day
Visitor numbers were up by about 25 per cent
Cumberland Industries showed this Isuzu pickup truck with A314 platform with novel levelling.
The CPA and PASMA Village were new for this year's event.
This Cormach 34000 lorry loader was in the ALLMI Village exhibitors
Cela's Simone Scalabrini (l) with the new distributor for Holland Luuk van der Hoek taking the keys to a new Cela DT21 which is now in production.
Mark Bell of Blade Access looking very pleased with his latest purchase - a 103 metre WT1000 platform, the biggest of several big platforms at the show.
The evening band - Rollercoaster - were excellent
An Avant Techno machine with access platform attachment
Dominique Lacombe and Christophe Marty of French-based access manufacturer ATN were on the look out for UK dealers.
The evening auction event raised thousands for the Lighthouse Club with the sale of bikes used for a charity ride from Scotland to Cornwall. Here are some of the winners.
The Ascendant Access stand had a new 18 metre and 26 metre truck as well as a 14 metre, 1.2 metre wide HAB scissor
Andy Ainsworth of AA Access Rentals (L) with Ian James of Bronto and the new 70 metre S70XDT - the biggest platform in the AA fleet.
A day at the show was all too much for some visitors!
Although Alimats had a stand, there were plenty being used around the show
Alan Russon (centre) with the Jason (right) and Glyn Dalmas of Bella Access which has ordered two 14 metre Holland Lift machines
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