17.01.2013

20,000 photographs

The 20,000th photograph was added to the Vertikal.Net database yesterday.

The very first photograph uploaded on Vertikal.net was of Leopold Mayrhofer - Geschäftsführer of Ring Lift at the time - which appeared in a German language story on March 30th 2001.
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Leopold Mayrhofer

The first photograph to appear on the English web site was the second one to be uploaded. It appeared in a story about the new Ruthmann TTS1000 on April 4th 2001. It is shown below:
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Hubert Ruthmann and Christof Junger

All 20,000 photographs along with 11,364 English language news reports are all still free to access and download and can be accessed via our news search box.

Oh… and the 20,000th photograph?

A tandem lift between two Gottwald mobile harbour cranes a G HMK 3405 and a G HMK 8610 – not yet used on the English web service.
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A Terex Gottwald G HMK 3405 and larger G HMK 8610 demonstrate the company's Tandem Lift Assistant in Rendsburg Port Authority, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Vettikal.net will celebrate the 12th anniversary of its launch at Bauma 2013 in Munich this April with the official launch occurring at Bauma 2001.