UK - Powered access hire company Nationwide Access supplied four telescopic access platforms to support floodlights illuminating the NatWest Series one-day international cricket match at Trent Bridge last month. Each of the four truck-mounted Bronto Skylift machines were fitted with special brackets carrying 15 lamps rated at 6kW each. The Brontos' 44m maximum lift height enabled lighting contractor Musco Lighting, specialists in permanent lighting installations for sports facilities, to obtain the optimum floodlight coverage over the Trent Bridge ground.

Allan Burgess, manager of Musco's mobile services division, says Nationwide Access regularly supplies the company's access hire requirement. The four boom lifts used at Trent Bridge supplemented four lighting towers which are owned and operated by Musco. "We have four cranes but eight sets of lamps and we used all eight sets at Trent Bridge," said Burgess, "that meant we had to hire in the Nationwide Access platforms."

"Nationwide Access now supplies 90 per cent of our mobile access requirement," says Burgess. "We work all over the UK and we need to have a supplier who we know can satisfy our requirements wherever we're working. Nationwide Access is really the only company with this sort of coverage."

(Lee Baldock)


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