Transquip gets a lift
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THE CORBY-BASED parent company of Transquip in the McCahill Group, which earlier this year took over the manufacturing and marketing of Rydewell Suspensions' is continuing to expand. It has acquired Spencer and Sons (Market Harborough), manufacturers of hydraulic. access platforms and special purpose materials handling .equipment.
Since 1970 Spencer has developed its own range of hydraulic access platforms and has won "a sizeable market share" in the UK. The company also has "worldwide export activities".
The McCahill Group has also widened the range of trailers it has to offer with the conclusion of an agreement between Transquip and Pacton whereby the McCahill company will market the Pacton range of semitrailers and drawbar, flat, step framed, tilt and curtainsider units throughout the UK under the Transquip-Pacton name.
Transquip's product range now includes on-board axle weighing systems for use on both rigid and articulated vehicles. Yet another McCahill company, DKS Automatic, provides the electronics for the devices while the weight sensing equipment is said to have been designed by ex-Boeing stress engineers in America.
The weight sensing can be achieved in two ways — either by means of a transducer that can be mounted on the axle or directly on to the suspension arm of a beam suspension, or by means of load cells which can be welded to the feet of the fifth wheel coupling. The electronic control box, housed in the cab, will indicate king pin loading, front axle and total trailer axle loading. Transquip is currently developing an additional system which will give individual axle loadings.
Rydewell rubber suspensions for single and tandem, drive and trailing axles are to be offered with the weighing system as a factory fitted option.