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Installing a Harrington Hump is much cheaper than raising the entire length of the platform – to the order of 1/10th of the typical £250,000 cost. [2] The Hump was devised by Network Rail and Cumbria County Council, in conjunction with Pipex Structural Composites, [2] and was installed first at Harrington railway station in December 2008. [3]
Unimog 405/UGN on a lift table World War 2 American ground crew using a lift table to load a bomb onto a B-17 bomber. Lift tables can come in a vast array of configurations and can be built to suit various highly specialized industrial processes. For instance, they are often customized for integration into production lines, packaging systems ...
Codes also generally require that there be a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (38 mm) clearance between the underside of the handrail and any obstruction—including the horizontal bracket arm. There is an allowance however for variations in the handrail size—for every 1 ⁄ 2 inch (13 mm) of additional perimeter dimension over 4 inches (102 mm), 1 ⁄ 8 ...
Genie is an American company that manufactures work lifts and platforms used in construction, maintenance, warehouse stocking, and equipment installation. Founded in 1966 by Bud Bushnell, the company operated independently until acquired by Terex in 2002. [1]
For sufficiently wide stairs, a rail is mounted to the treads of the stairs. A chair or lifting platform is attached to the rail. A person gets onto the chair or platform and is lifted up or down the stairs by the chair which moves along the rail. Stair lifts are known variously as stairlifts, stair-lifts, chair lifts, stair gliders and by ...
Replacing an advertising poster in London using an aerial work platform. An aerial work platform (AWP), also an aerial device, aerial lift, boom lift, bucket truck, cherry picker, elevating work platform (EWP), mobile elevating work platform (MEWP), or scissor lift, is a mechanical device used to provide temporary access for people or equipment to inaccessible areas, usually at height.
It can load from 300–500 kilograms (660–1,100 lb). The company also manufactures ladder lifts up to 56 meters, scissor lifts up to 22 meters and self-propelled engine-run articulated cherry picker boom lifts, with up to 26m lifting range. Other company's products are off-road multi-purpose electric vehicles, mini breakers, mobile kitchen ...
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