Summer 2001

Visa, Master Card - We Take the Lot!

All major credit cards are now accepted!

Payment can now be made at both depots with the use of credit or debit cards.

Accounts can also be settled over the phone with our head office by the use of credit cards.

More and more companies are now supplying employees with credit cards as a way of reducing or simplifying paperwork and order systems.

American Rental Trip and a Half!

Well, what can I say? My role in the business has not always been the glamorous one. The opportunity to visit the odd tradeshow to find new equipment for our customers. This time it was different - the Hire Association Europe organised a trip to American Rental Association (ARA) trade show in Orland, Florida, USA.

We were to fly with USAirline, on arrival at Manchester we were informed of a 6 hour delay, who cares was my attitude, the only problem was that we now missed our connection at Philidelphia through to Florida so on arrival we were despatched to a hotel until the following morning.

We arrived at the airport at 8am to check in for what we presumed was to be a 9.15am flight, only to be informed that we were not booked on this flight. The next flight we could booked on was the 15.15 unless we went stand by. So we asked them to book us on the later flight, now the first bit of luck we managed to get on the 14.15 flight, so with minutes to go we got on the flight to the sunshine state.

On arrival at the Orlando airport only 1 out of 3 pieces of luggage were to be found.

As we were over 24 hours late we had missed the official welcome party and had to make our own way to the hotel. So car hire was next on the agenda.

The cost of the car was OK but by the time we had finished with the additions it cost nearly 3 times the original price.

This was my first visit to the USA and definitely one to remember.

Round Table Lending a Helping Hand!

Atherton & Tyldesley Round Table decided this year to donate a 20ft tree to Atherton Parish Church as their way of improving the Christmas spirit and brightening up the town centre.

Only problem is how do you decorate a 20ft Christmas tree, as we all know from our own experiences its not easy to get the fairy on the top.

Solution: use a "fairy picker" in this case a 12ms telescopic boom hoist. The telescopic arm makes even the trickiest fairy, light work!

Quinton Smith, a former chairman of Round Table and pictured in the photo, stated that "With this access machine it makes it very easy to decorate the tree."

Stop Press

At the HAE awards this year we won the Training category, and were shortlisted for the web site category. We are up against all the big players but we have won before and now we have won again!