05.06.2006

A new Flying Carpet

Platform Sales and Hire Ltd, a UK end user access sales specialist, has launched a new vehicle mounted scissor lift. The new model borrows a classic Flying Carpet name from the early days of aerial lift development. The Flying Carpet VM25. The lift can be mounted on most 3.5 tonne chassis cabs including Mercedes Sprinter, Ford Transit and Mitsubishi.
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The Flying Carpet VM25

The Flying Carpet VM25 offers a working height of just under 10 metres and is supplied complete with roll out deck extension. The scissor lift is powered from the vehicle’s PTO unit or a remote mounted pump system.

The first unit has been sold for aircraft service and inspection work and has been designed to give access to both wide and narrow bodied jets including Boeing B747 and Airbus A300 series. The company says that the lift is light and compact enough to work around the busy aircraft ramp area’s found at most airports
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Chris Caney, managing director of Platform Sales said ‘due to particular demands, the Flying Carpet had been specifically developed with a number of airlines and to their exact requirements. The unit has been well received with initial launch customers, including Cathay Pacific airlines and S & R Technics.

Vertikal Comment

Not exactly comment, more a little bit of history, The Flying Carpet was the name that UpRight gave to its first range of scissor lifts back in the early 70's. The name became an almost generic name for scissor lifts around the world.

It was translated into several languages becoming the Flygende Teppich and Tapis Volonte in Germany and France.

The name has not been used by UpRight since the late 1980's leaving it free for Platform Sales to pick up and use.

UpRight did build a truck mounted scissor lift in the UK in the 80's but it was not a mainstream product line and never took of in any volume.