A view of the Cranes&Access village at SED
The Car parks almost reached capacity on the first two days
Cranes&Access! The Genie 135/70, sold to Hi -Reach, soars over the show ground, with NMT's Demag towering in the background
SEV, under new ownership showed Aerial trailers and the new Iteco electric scissor lifts
Dave Stiano, area sales manager for Sky King(L) with John Ball of Easi UpLifts and the new Skyking 198PX 3.5tonne truck mount
Bobcat showed its top of the line T40170 telehandler
CAT had a single Telehandler on display, the top of the line TH580B
The Easi UpLift team during a rare lull, (L-R) John Ball, Nicole Engesser of Vertikal, Fergus McArdle, Harry McArdle and Ronan Mac Lennan all of Easi UpLifts, the new Aichi dealer for the UK and Ireland
A Dieci dual telescoping integrated platform
A City Lifting Spierings SK599-AT5, folding tower crane against the changing sky
City Lifting and Chamberlain at the official hand over of the latest unit for City Lifting and the first Spierings for Chamberlain. (L-R) Andrew Tutt (Chamberlain) - Bob Bruijsten (Sales Spierings UK) - Trevor Jepson (City Lifting) - Leo Spierings (Owner
Andrew Tutt of Chamberlain crane hire congratulated by Bob Bruijsten of Spierings for the purchase of the 100th SK488-1T4 folding tower crane
Leigh Carter of Fassi UK with the SED award for excellence for the F235.AXP26
Lionlift srl launched its first telehandler, the Galaxylift GH40-07, at SED this is one of a range of four
Hiabs Demonstration trailer with a wide range of its lorry loaders
Time for fishing? the multi stage Hiab soars into the sky alongside Spierings
Hitachi-Sumitomo's two telescopic crawlers, including the new 40 tonner, the first of which was sold duing the show to Dunne building and civil engineering of Bathgate.
IPAF had a busy SED, following its annual Summit on Monday
Skyjack? JLG? no Holland Lifts! The Russon Access stand, included two new 18 metre models. A narrow indoor only model in Skyjack colours, sold to Kimberly Access and a 2.5 m wide, outdoor version in blue and green. The latter offers a 1,000 kg lift capac
The first Locatelli ATC 20 sold to NMT crane hire
JLG back at SED for the first time in many years, concentrated on its Telehandler line
The Maeda LC755-3 is now CE approved. Kranlyft has received four orders so far
The Manitransit TMT 320-3 sold to the Royal Lifeboats
One of the new Merlo's with boom head mounted hook
NMT supported the Cranes and Access village, the only crane hirer with the vision to exhibit
National Crane hire group at NMT's stand
Oil&Steel exhibited this year with its new distributor, the Platform company
Oil&Steel showed two of its 44metre Eagle truck mounts, one fitted with a special roofers platform unfolding....
...The oil&Steel special roofers platform fully open
TH White has taken on the UK distributorship for the Bison-Palfinger access range. This is the first time the products have been exhibited in the UK. The first unit to be sold in the UK,a 35m TKA 35KS, has been ordered by Always Access.
Peter Hird Junior demonstrates how easy it is to operate the Valla 20TRX with remote controls
The HSE stand showed new ways to handle awkward loads, including a Pipe positioner from the Platform company
The worst of the weather held off but threatened frequently on day one and three
Malcolm Kitt of Power Lift UK with one of its van mounts
Forget the dog.. the best dressed ladies take a Maeda mini crane for a walk, it is better behaved!
Alan Russon (L) with Menno Koel of Holland Lift
Dino lift was exhibited on the Promax stand, but adoption of telescopic trailer lifts in the UK is still slow
Hitachi Capital showed a specially fitted van with Palfinger pedestal crane. This unit will be supplied to Southern Water on contract hire.
Christian Lajous, Mani Access product manager (L) with Dave Faultless of Manitou UK (C)and Alan Russon of Russon Access with the first 18 metre 180ATJ in the UK, sold to AJ access
The Cela TJ170 on the Promax stand, it has an amazing working envelope for a 3.5 tonne chassis, this unit was sold to Ploughcroft building services
Cranes and Access... Towermatic had an excellent show, the new Work at Height Rules appear to be boosting demand for such innovative new access equipment
A Manitou telehandler fitted with a roof truss jib
Unic cranes showed its new 095, the worlds smallest crane, with a length of 1.6m and weight of only a tonne it is ideal for small elevators/Lifts
The New Vanson VC29 self erector crane
Vanson was the only full size tower crane exhibitor, with the main working components of its recently launched Ramondi/Rayvan MR108+3, Flat top city crane.
Versalift launched its new walk in Insulated basket
Versalift is promoting its van mounts which require no outriggers
The Facelift stand with its new battle bus and Towermatic access towers
The interior of the new Facelift exhibition bus
Under its new name Gardner Denver showed off its groundbreaking new TDA145, with over nine metres outreach and the Skyhigh 1100 on Piaggio Porter chassis
They have stolen our Name! a Gardner Denver van mount sold to Aquarius Leasing
Cranes&Access! The Genie 135/70, sold to Hi -Reach, soars over the show ground, with NMT's Demag towering in the background
The second JLG-Liftlux to emerge, the 153-22 joins the 245-25 launched at Conexpo
Alan Bates (second from the right) of Mitchells of Horley Ltd, was the overall Vertikal Champion, with an amazing one minute and 35 seconds time on day one.
Crane Drivers from all over the UK and Ireland tested their skills on the Hiab-Vertikal Challenge
The Ranger stand featured two Italmec built crawler mounted booms, the R16 and R21
HMF UK Ltd won the Best Newcomer award , Andy Rigby, managing director of HMF accepts the award from Mark Bresnahan director of SED
The worlds first Hitachi-Sumitomo SCX400T sold to Dunne Group Ltd, Gordon Dunne (L) seals the order with Rod Abbot of NRC at SED
Getting in and worse still, getting out of SED 2005 was appalling! Waits of up to an hour or more to leave the Showground were the norm after 5:30. Traffic management was incompetent, in spite of the organisers excuses
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