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New Lift from Maywood

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Maywood Equipment Group has introduced a new lift. The five tonne four-post lift, Europa 5000, is just one of several new products to be included in Maywood’s new price list catalogue. The Europa 5000 has been launched to fill a gap in the market place.

Gavin Masterton, Director of Maywood commented: “We already have over 50 lifts in our range but we listen to our key distributors like Unipart Automotive and when they say there is a gap in our range, we seek to find the product to fill it.”

The Europa 5000 is electro-hydraulic in operation, has many safety devices like automatic arm locking, foot saver protection and independent four cable lifting system. It is available in single and three phase. The lifting height is 1960mm and the platform length is 5100mm. It is available as a surface mounted lift and requires just 160mm of concrete on the floor.

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NTDA Names 2007 TAFF Award Winners

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On Wednesday 2, alongside the Brityrex International exhibition, the NTDA named the 2007 TAFF award winners. Michelin took best single company result of the night, winning two awards. But Bridgestone, Vellco, Apaseal and Group Tyre were also celebrating success in categories including production innovation, wholesaler of the year and tyre and aftermarket equipment supplier of the year.

The awards were presented during a glittering ceremony at Manchester’s Palace Hotel, which featured well-known stand-up comic Stan Boardman. The Tyre and Fast Fit (TAFF) Awards, which are sponsored by Renault UK, are the NTDA’s own awards which were established in 2005 to reward excellence from industry suppliers and, in that short time, they have firmly established themselves as the premier awards for the UK Tyre Industry.

The 2007 TAFF awards included categories for Tyre Manufacturer, National Wholesaler, Tyre and Aftermarket Equipment Supplier, Product Innovation and a special award for Industry Advertising Campaigns. A special category covering scrap tyre disposal, collecting and recycling is entitled the Environmental Award.

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108

Maywood Appoint John Baron as Area Manager

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Maywood Equipment Group has appointed John Baron as Area Manager for London, the South East and East Anglia. John has been in the industry for over 20 years in several capacities and most recently as a manager at Unipart Automotive. Maywood’s Sales Director Gavin Masterton was enthusiastic: “I recruited John as a trainee in 1985. At that time I was General Manager of GKN Autoparts and after he joined us he quickly advanced to sales positions at a number of branches in our old Oxford region. It is funny what goes round comes round. I saw his name amongst the applicants and as far as I was concerned that was that !”

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Give Your Old Phone a New Home

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Unipart has joined forces with automotive industry charity BEN to set up a recycling service for unwanted mobile phones. Collection points will be installed across Unipart’s sites and BEN will mail 25,000 pre-paid envelopes to its supporters encouraging them to join in.

For each phone received, Unipart will donate £3 to BEN, helping them carry out their work. Unipart Group Chief Executive, John Neill, said: “BEN is a charity close to our hearts at Unipart because of our automotive industry heritage.

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2007 TAFF Awards Nominations Announced

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Members of the NTDA have voted for their favourite companies in the six categories of the prestigious TAFF Awards and the winners will be announced at the TAFF Awards Dinner in Manchester’s Palace Hotel on 2 May. The nominations are:

Tyre Manufacturer of the Year
-Bridgestone UK Ltd
-Continental Tyre Group Ltd
-Goodyear/Dunlop Tyres Ltd
-Kumho Tyre
-Michelin Tyre plc

Product Innovation Award

-Bridgestone UK Ltd
-Continental CS Easy
-Goodyear/Dunlop Tyres
-Michelin Tyre plc
-Rema Tip Top UK Ltd

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Maywood Appoints New National Account Manager

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Maywood Equipment Group has appointed Malcolm Scott as National Account Manager. Scott will be based at the company’s head office in Maidstone. In recent years he has held senior positions within Brown Brothers, Garage Equipment Services and Unipart Automotive. “I am delighted to have joined Maywood to develop their National Account business. Maywood is a very progressive and growing lift supplier and has outstanding products including the world famous Hofmann range of two post lifts. I am really looking forward to the challenge,” Scott commented.

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Independent Garages Lose Ground to Fast-Fits in Car Repair

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The latest Castrol Business Services Car Repair Trend Tracker shows that independent garages account for 47 per cent of all work carried out on cars in the UK, while franchised main dealers account for 25 per cent and fast-fit outlets, 9 per cent. But independent garages are revealed to be losing share to fast-fit outlets, with franchised dealers holding steady, when data from the report’s 2005/06 survey is compared with the previous 2003/04 survey period.

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2006 NTDA Tyre & Fast Fit Awards

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It’s time once again to vote for the winners of the NTDA Tyre and Fast Fit (TAFF) Awards. These were introduced last year and immediately became the awards that everyone wanted to win, as it is the customers who decided the outcome.

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UK Equipment Becomes Snap-on Equipment Ltd

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UK Equipment Ltd., a fully-owned subsidiary of Snap-on Inc. is changing its name to Snap-on Equipment Ltd., in keeping with the corporation’s global identity. The name change will be effective as of 1 March 2006 and over the coming weeks all aspects of the company’s identity will change to Snap-on Equipment.

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News from Motaquip

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Motaquip, the UK supplier of motor parts, has started the new year with a couple of changes. The first of these is the appointment of a new product planner. Alistair Large has taken up this role, with responsibility for Motaquip’s extensive clutch, steering and suspension propositions. Prior to joining Motaquip, Mr. Large notched up 15 years with Unipart Automotive in product and promotional management roles for Brown Brothers and ADS.

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Maywood Adds New Lift

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Maywood Equipment Group has added a valuable new lift to it’s comprehensive range of electro-hydraulic models. The EHL 3600 has a 3.6-tonne capacity and is suitable for all cars and light commercial vehicles such as the Ford Transit. The lift comes in either single or three phase and has a lifting pad height of 95 millimetres. It also important safety features including: Mechanically operated safety locking mechanism; electronically controlled safety mechanism; load limiting hydraulic valve; manual lowering facility.

There is also the option of high lift pads for light commercial vehicles. This lift is the higher rated version of the well-known EHL 3000, which is already a top seller for Maywood. Maywood markets all its lifts through key distributors such as Unipart Automotive (Partco and Brown Brothers) and The Independent Factors Association.

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New Maywood Lift

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Maywood Equipment Group, the sole importers of the world famous Hofmann brand of lifts, has added eight and twelve tonne four post lifts to its range. Both models are supplied in three phase only and include safety deadman controls. In both cases the platform length is 8000 millimetres, which allows for a large range of commercial vehicles. The lifting time is only 55 seconds and both lift to a height of 1750 millimetre.

Maywood also offers four post lifts suitable for wheel alignment, namely the Quadrolift wheel alignment series, available with or without secondary lifting.
All lifts from Maywood are distributed through leading companies such as Unipart Automotive (Partco and Brown Brothers) and members of The IFA (Independent Factors Association).

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Maccess Acquires ADS

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International Automotive Distributors Limited (IAD) has acquired the ADS business unit of Unipart Automotive.

Trading as Maccess, the company currently has 14 locations across the UK and will gain a further five sites from ADS. This coordination of resources has been done to improve product availability and offer, as well as delivery service levels to customers of both businesses.

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Smarten Up Your Corporate Image

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Corporate image and brand awareness have always been regarded as important by those involved in marketing. In the fiercely competitive automotive industry getting potential customers to instantly recognise a company’s products and services is a key factor to securing more business.

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UK Equipment Ltd New Area Sales Manager

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UK Equipment Ltd has appointed David Speirs as area sales manager for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
In this role Mr Speirs will be responsible for strengthening the company’s existing distributor base, whilst growing the brand through its OEM business and corporate dealers throughout the region.

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