c&a a look back at 2015

2015 was really not a bad year overall, yes it got a little tougher for some as we moved through the second half, while the senseless, A look mindless and cowardly violence seen in Paris and elsewhere risked increasing the levels of uncertainty. Oil prices plunged unexpectedly creating challenges in some parts of the industry, while providing relief in others. Long- suffering Southern Europe appears to have back at turned the corner but it looks as though we are heading into yet another uncertain year in 2016. During 2015 1,694 news reports were posted on the English service of www.Vertikal.net with a further 1,026 on the German service - a new record. All the news stories - totalling almost 29,000 - can be searched and accessed at any 2 015 time with the simple click of the mouse. US Marks & Rigging c&a acquires Neff Cranes & Rigging Bobcat of Lubbock, Texas. unveils three Hertz appoints John Tague as 16.9 new 10 and chief executive, replacing Mark December January 12 metre Frissora. industry telehandlers. IPAF opens an office inChina and news appoints its first training centre in Kevin Parkes, chief executive Wolf Haessler - the founder UK crane rental company Lifterz the country. of UK rental company Hewden, and previous owner of Skyjack - Cranes is closed and liquidated. announces his departure from the launches WolfLift. World News..World News.. company. Manitou launches a new version 12 people are Terex Cranes of its mast boom for the Australian killed when expands its market. gunmen storm Charlie Hebdo Explorer range TVH acquires the assets of C-Tech offices in Paris. of ATs with Industries. the 130 tonne Saudi Arabia’s acquires 98 percent of its Explorer 5500. Terex King Abdullah dies - half-brother, Topower crawler crane joint Crown Prince Salman, assumes UK rental group AFI acquires venture in China. Dinolift appoints Reachmaster the throne. Altitude Access. as its distributor for North America. Russia, Belarus, HTC’s tower crane operators IPAF issues Armenia, Manitex and Terex complete the accept a 14 percent pay increase. the millionth Kazakhstan and ASV joint venture. PAL card. Kyrgyzstan form Böcker confirms the Eurasian Alexander Böcker Economic Union. as managing Boko Haram massacres more German crane company Wiemann director taking over than 2,000 in Baga, Nigeria and establishes a new access rental from father Robert surrounding villages. Böcker who died a few months company. Lithuania adopts the earlier. Satoru euro becoming the 19th Oyashiki, vice The first Liebherr LR 11000 fitted Eurozone country. president of with a Power Boom attachment The Swiss National Bank Tadano Faun, goes to work. abandons the on the franc’s Jekko ships its first 7.5 tonne moves back to value to the euro, causing turmoil SPX 1275CDH mini crane to the Tadano Japan in financial markets. Netherlands. after six years The first production Houthi rebels in the job. unit of Maeda’s new Sinoboom Europe is launched in take over the articulated spider crane Bergeijk, the Netherlands. Yemeni capital German access rental company arrives in Europe. Comansa Jie launches a new flat Gerken acquires the platform ousting the top crane. division of the Willenbrock group. government.

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UK rental company GH Johnson Crane Hire c&a buys two 80 tonne Kobelco CKE800G crawler c&a cranes. Palfinger 17.1 launches 17.2 February March the P-Fold industry industry assistance news system on news its PALcom The HSE finally launches prosecutions for the Genie launches a new P7 remote 2006 tower crane collapse in Battersea. 17 metre GTH-1256 controller. JLG launches three boom lifts, telehandler for North AFI hires former employees Brian Parker, America. a large scissor and a redesigned Darren Kesterton and Paul Maxwell as part line of telehandlers at the ARA. of a new business development team. Alimak Hek launches the new SC 65/32 hoist. Alan Peck is promoted to sales director for Ainscough Crane Hire Maeda and Böcker dealer Kranlyft UK. purchases eight new Böcker UK rental group AFI AK44/4000 truck mounted acquires the assets of Safe Access Loxam UK orders three 48 metre Palfinger cranes. Solutions (SAS). P480NX truck mounted lifts Genie unveils its new Grove unveils three David and John Barton establish access 150ft telescopic boom telescopic crawler rental company Quick Reach. lift - the SX-150. cranes in partnership UK rental company JMS Access takes delivery with Sennebogen. Ruthmann launches of its 1,000th aerial work platform. a new version of its Daniel Pitzer replaces Georg Diesch as 27m 3.5t truck mount - the TB270+. Liebherr unveils an innovative president of Liebherr Cranes in the USA. Skyjack launches its self-contained tower crane Genie starts manufacturing telehandlers at new 82/86ft SJ86TJ elevator dubbed the LiUP. the Terex facility in and SJ82T telescopic boom lifts. Terex acquires Dueco - Terex Oklahoma City. Utilities’ largest distributor and Hewden appoints Hiab announces the 80 tonne/metre X-HiPro mounting company. Adrian Murphy as 858. Hiab launches its chief executive CMC delivers the first units of its 18.8 metre the 90 tonne/ following the departure S19N spider lift. of Kevin Parkes. metre X-HiPro Snorkel unveils six new 1058. Gardemann, the German subsidiary of models including its first Lavendon orders 50 Ruthmann truck mounted UK-based tower telehandler. lifts in a deal worth €6.4 million. crane company Dutch cladding specialist HTC Plant sells World News..World News.. World News V.d. Tillaar takes its hoist division delivery of the first remote controlled Magni to Reco Hoists. Leaders from Russia, Ukraine, Germany telehandler. and France agree a ceasefire and withdrawal of Jekko develops a 2.5 tonne SPX 424 spider heavy weapons from Eastern Ukraine. Time Manufacturing celebrates its 50th crane for the German market. anniversary with new Versalift aerial work Daesh burn to death captured platforms. Palfinger exceeds €1 billion of revenue Jordanian pilot Muath for the first time. Kasasbeh, the Jordanian MEC unveils its new 60ft Kobelco government executes two 60J telescopic boom lift. Cranes terrorists and vows revenge. Imer Access/Iteco opens its The Egyptian military appoints Cumberland Global conducts airstrikes against Platforms as its UK Parts rebels in Libya after more than a dozen distributor. Centre in Egyptian Christians are beheaded. UK’s King Lifting receives a new Spierings Singapore. Russian opposition SK599-AT5 mobile tower crane. politician Boris Iowa Mold Tooling (IMT) adds the 22.3 Palfinger and Russian truck manufacturer Nemtsov, is shot tonne/metre 28562 loader crane to its range. begin two joint ventures. dead in Moscow. Manitex completes PM The Africa Cup of Skyjack celebrates its group acquisition and Nations semi-final 30th anniversary with plans to build PM cranes in between Ghana and 30 projects for 30 America. hosts Equatorial Partners. Canadian-based NCSG Guinea becomes a Bangkok Airport takes delivery of four 32 Crane & Heavy Haul “war zone” with riot metre Falcon FS320Z spider lifts. acquires Energy Transportation police using tear gas UK-based Green Access Platforms of Wyoming. and helicopters to restore calm. Ghana won 3-1. recruits John Corrie.

46 cranes & access December/January 2016 Hong Kong certifies A-Plant - the UK arm of Ashtead - acquires TRAC temporary roadways. its first female crane c&a operator, Janet UK-based Baldwins Crane Hire takes delivery Wong, 25. of a Liebherr LG 1750 lattice boom truck crane. AFI acquires Astra 17.3 Haulotte unveils new models - Training from April/May the Star 10, Optimum scissors, administration. industry Star 6 and Dutch rental company HWS takes the first 60ft news HA20RTJ Pro MEC 6092RT Rough Terrain scissor lift. boom lift. Grove launches MOBA opens a subsidiary in Brazil and builds a the GMK5250L, a new production hall in Germany. single engine Snorkel promotes five axle 250t All Manitou unveils the new 33ft Matthew Elvin to chief Terrain crane. Mango RT boom lift. executive. US-based Fleurieu Cranes takes Oaktree Capital delivery of the firstGrove Management GMK6400 in Australia. purchases UK-based Ainscough Crane Hire. Palfinger launches The UK HSE appoints Peter Baker as chief Andy Studdert of NES takes over as IPAF the new 55m inspector of . president from Steve Couling. Jumbo NX model US-based ALL Erection & Crane Rental Integrated Logistics of Kuwait adds 10 new - the P550 - and a orders 17 Tadano cranes. 100 tonne Grove All Terrain cranes. 28m P280AXE. Socage opens a subsidiary - Socage Do Terex Port Solutions launches the Liftace World News..World News.. World News Brasil - in São Paulo. 5-31 reach stacker. 148 students are shot dead at the Liebherr upgrades Dutch rental group Collé Rental Garissa University College in Kenya, its 750 tonne LR1750 & Sales takes delivery of 10 new by Al-Shabaab. crawler crane 180/185ft boom lifts from Genie An earthquake kills and JLG. 8,857 in Nepal, 130 in Tadano invests $2.5 million in its Mantis India, 27 in China and crawler crane plant in Richlands, . four in Bangladesh. World News..World News.. World News Manitou celebrates its 500,000th machine The World Health The ancient city sites of Nimrud, with 80 limited edition MLT 735 telehandlers. Organization declares that rubella has been Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq are Dingli successfully launches its Initial Public eradicated from the Americas. demolished by Daesh. Offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange 750 refugees die NASA’s DAWN probe Main Board. after a boat capsizes enters orbit around during a crossing UK rental company Ceres, becoming the from Libya. Morris Leslie Plant first spacecraft to Hire orders 140 Manitou Tennis player Andy Murray visit a dwarf planet. MT telehandlers. marries Kim Sears, in A pilot of a Dunblaine, Scotland. GermanWings Glasgow-based Leggat Plant takes the first Version O of Les Femmes A320-211 Terex Explorer 5500 in the UK. d’Alger by Pablo Picasso crashes the aircraft UK rental company B&T takes delivery 100 sells for $179.3 million at an auction in New into the side of a JCB telehandlers. York, while the sculpture L’Homme au mountain in France Ruthmann reports a record year with doigt by Alberto killing all 150 on board. Giacometti fetches revenues of €109 million. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu $141.3 million, setting makes controversial Sunbelt Rentals acquires Wilson Rental a new world record addresses to US Center of Corning, New York. for a painting and a Congress in a bid to US-based Essex Rental starts looking at sculpture. stop a nuclear deal ‘strategic alternatives’. Ireland votes to legalise same-sex marriage with Iran. Riwal and Austrian Taylor Swift wins Top Gear presenter crane rental company eight awards out of Jeremy Clarkson Prangl sign a five year 14 nominations at the is fired after an framework agreement. Billboard music awards. “unprovoked The Duchess of physical attack” on Riwal announces an €80 million investment in Cambridge gives birth a producer. its rental fleet for 2015. to a baby girl Charlotte UK’s GAP Hire Solutions launches its A Saudi Arabian-led coalition starts moves into Elizabeth Diana. Yemen in support of the government’s fight London Tools & Access division. In the UK David against rebels. UK-based Weldex takes delivery of Cameron and the Millions of Europeans four new Kobelco CKE G crawler Conservatives win a glimpse the best cranes. surprise majority in the solar eclipse in Erik Bengtsson, MD of Cramo Sweden General Election. years. and Cramo Scandinavia leaves the company.

December/January 2016 cranes & access 47 Alistair Jordan leaves Stephan Kulawik, previously a look back at 2015 c&a family-owned company with Palfinger Platforms, joins Rapid Platforms. Danish crane and access specialist BMS and announces a c&a Hiab announces two new ‘Z’ new international truck mounted lift strategy. loader cranes for applications John Jennings, chairman of UK based that involve the regular use of Clements Equipment Hire, retires after more 17.4 grabs and other tools. than 50 years in the business. AH in Denmark and MBS Access in the UK June World News..World News.. World News industry take delivery of the first twoHinowa Lightlift news 26.14 Performance IIIS spider lifts. FIFA president Sepp Blatter announces his intention to resign Bobcat unveils two new six and calls for an extraordinary metre compact telehandlers - JLG acquires low level lift congress to elect a new president. the TL358 and TL358+. manufacturer Power Towers. 40 holiday makers Irish-based Windhoist purchases two 750 Sennebogen launches the 50 tonne 653E are shot dead at the tonne Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1 All Terrain cranes. telescopic crawler crane. resort of Port El Tadano ships its 1,000th 80 tonne/100 ton Kantaoui, Tunisia Vertikal Days breaks GR-1000XL/GR-800EX Rough Terrain crane. following a similar attack on the National all records for number of Bardo Museum in Tunis in March. exhibitors & visitors. Liebherr unveils an upgraded version of its City-type LTC All Terrain crane - the 50 President Erdogan’s Justice and AFI acquires Hampshire Plant & Access to tonne LTC 1050-3.1. Development Party (AKP) loses its majority in run as an independent business. Turkish Elections Alimak Hek announces plans for an Initial Wolffkran acquires UK tower Public Offering in Sweden. Cuba becomes the first country to eradicate crane company HTC Plant mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. which it rebrands as HTC GSR delivers its 7,000th unit - a 23 metre Wolffkran. E240PX truck mounted platform. An Indonesian Air Force Hercules crashes in a Palfinger announces a new Solid line of loader Unic Cranes Europe develops a hydraulic residential area in Medan cranes - the PK 17.001SLD 1, PK 17.001 SLD 3 luffing jib attachment for two of its spider cranes. killing 143. and PK19:001 SLD 5 - replacing the PK16001/ Isoli launches the 20.5 metre A strike closes the PK18001. PNT 210 JD4 truck mounted lift Channel Tunnel US-based Bigge Crane & replacing the PNT 210J. between the UK and Rigging takes delivery of the Tower crane manufacturer Wolffkran appoints France. firstManitowoc MLC650 crawler crane. Empire Crane as a dealer in the United States. JLG launches an on-line used equipment service Palfinger forms a joint - JLGUsed.com c&a venture with Fairwind of Lawton, Oklahoma for AFI Rent takes delivery of the firstSkyjack servicing wind turbines. SJ86T telescopic boom lift in Germany. Phil Newby - executive director 17.5 Weldex orders a further of Australia’s EWPA and Hire July eight Liebherr LTR crawler telescopic cranes. industry and Rental Industry Association - news Palfinger announces its 125 tonne/metre PK retires. 165.002 TEC 7 for vehicles up to 32 tonnes GVW. Germany’s Roggermaier takes Holland Lift releases its highest narrow Wacker Neuson and Claas end their strategic delivery of the first newSnorkel slab electric scissor lift - the 102ft/1.4m wide HL-330 alliance for agricultural telescopic handlers, with scissor lifts in Europe. E14 4WDS/N. Liebherr taking over as Claas’ new supplier. A new Polish Rental Association is Potain launches a new range of MDT Potain teams up with Alimak-Hek formed. Dutch rental company T.C. CSS city tower cranes. to develop a new internal tower Gortenmulder takes delivery of the first Liebherr launches the new five elevator for its tower cranes. Magni RTH 5.35 telehandler. axle LTM 1250-5.2 All Terrain An Artic Crane Raptor articulated World News..World News.. World News crane. tower crane is erected with a hook Riwal acquires working at height trainer height of 88m - a new record. Greece becomes the first advanced economy to miss a payment to the IMF. ALS Safety in the UK. Alimak flotation is substantially oversubscribed, Belgian heavy-lift company Sarens the shares price at the top end the range. NASA’s New Horizons space probe forms a joint venture with Sinotrans unveils three new large capacity MHT Manitou carries out a close Heavy-lift Logistics in China. telehandlers with capacities up to 23 tonnes. flyby ofPluto. Ainscough Crane Hire places a further order Dinolift unveils the new 66ft Iran agrees to long- for Liebherr cranes taking its total to 54 in 12 months. 220XSE fully self-propelled boom term limits on its nuclear Australian access rental company Force Corp lift with telehandler capability. programme in exchange for is placed in the hands of a NRC Plant sells the first 80 tonne Hitachi sanctions relief. receiver. SCX800A-3 crawler crane in the UK to Donegan Cuba and the USA Civil Engineering. re-establish full diplomatic Ashtead - owner of Sunbelt Rentals in relations, ending 54 years the USA and A-Plant in the UK - exceeds Liebherr books its 1,000th offshore crane order of hostilities. £2 billion in revenues, a new record. - a RL-K 4200 ram luffing knuckle-boom crane.

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JLG launches Rothlehner appoints Alfa Access Services a look back at 2015 c&a a new 40ft to provide support, service and spare parts for crawler Denka Lift in the UK. mounted telescopic Kobe Steel considers merging boom lift - the 400SC. c&a Kobelco Construction Japan’s second crane Machinery and Kobelco manufacturer Kato returns to Europe with its Cranes. City-type All Terrain cranes. 17.6 Link-Belt unveils the 125 tonne August/September In Australia, Coates Hire acquires the assets of TCC-1400 telescopic crawler crane. industry Force Corp and merges them into its operation. news Link-Belt launches a new 100 ton/90 tonne rough terrain crane. Terex announces a merger with Finnish port and World News..World News.. World News industrial lifting company Konecranes. TVH Australasia purchases Independent Wreckage from Malaysian Airlines Parts and Service, Australia. Terex Cranes Flight 370, missing since March 2014, is found president Tim Ford Bronto Skylift chief executive Esa Peltola on Réunion. leaves the company and retires after 35 years with the company. Scientists announce the discovery of Ken Lousberg takes Danish rental company Steiness takes delivery Homo naledi, a previously unknown over. of the first two 150ftGenie SX-150 boom lifts species of early human in South Africa. UK distributor APS teams up with Aldercote to in Europe. 20 people are killed in a bombing inside the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand. mount and distribute a new range of van mounted Hiab wins an order platforms. for 1,200 loader TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman A-Plant purchases more than 200 Genie booms cranes from Tata Adam Ward, are shot dead in Virginia, during a and scissor lifts. Motors India, for an live broadcast by a former colleague who later army truck contract. shot himself. The UKs largest specialist telehandler rental Volkswagen is found to have rigged company - Fork Rent - is acquired by private KAM Trading (UK) diesel emissions tests, possibly equity firms in a deal led bySteve Corcoran. which also trades as Dingli Platform Sales UK, parts company with Philip O’Donnell. affecting up to 11 million vehicles. Belgian tower crane specialist NASA announces that liquid water has been Arcomet unveils a new self- A New York Jury orders Jimmy Lomma to pay found on Mars. erecting tower crane. $47.8 million to two men who died in a 2008 crane collapse. Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour CTE ships its 10,000th aerial work leadership race in the UK with a Manitowoc filesSEC papers to separate its platform. landslide. cranes and foodservice businesses.

Terex unveils a Boom Booster kit for its 650 Versalift launches a 66 metre tonne Superlift 3800 crawler crane. c&a insulated truck mounted lift. UK rental company City Lifting takes delivery BMS orders 13 large Palfinger of the first Maeda MK1033CWE-1 spider truck mounted lifts. crane in the UK. 17.7 Dutch manufacturer Omega October Alimak Hek launches a medium range launches two crawler mounted industry construction hoist and a new range of news telescopic boom lifts. mast-climbers. UK-based Gatwick Plant is World News..World News.. World News A 1,350 tonne crawler crane overturns onto acquired by R Swain & Sons. A suicide bomb kills at least 100 the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia ATN outlines a 12 metre mast boom with people at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey. killing more than 110 people - a report blames a telescopic jib to be launched at Bauma 2016. combination of negligence and strong winds. Hurricane Patricia Cela exhibits its new 30m DT30 Spyder becomes the most intense UK-based Kimberly Rentals articulated boom spider lift at GIS. hurricane ever recorded in the launches a secondary guarding Western Hemisphere with winds of 200 mph. system for scissor lifts. Manitou unveils the MLT-X 732 ag telehandler in Australia. Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party are Jekko reveals details of an all- surprise winners in Canada’s new six tonne SPK60 mini crawler Phil Graysmark vice president elections ousting Stephen crane with articulated telescopic luffing jib. of sales,European region for Harper and the Conservatives. Genie leaves the company. Don Ahern of Ahern Rentals, Snorkel A Russian airliner en route to Saint Petersburg and Xtreme appoints Craig Paylor as Mammoet forms a joint venture in from Sharm el-Sheikh, group chief operating officer. Singapore with Sankyu of Japan. crashes in Sinai, killing all 217 UK’s Nationwide Platforms introduces a Joseph F. Apuzzo, Terex CFO from 1999 passengers and seven crew new dual level secondary guarding system. to 2002, is fined $100,000 for fraudulent members. deals with United Rentals. Spierings unveils a completely Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton wins his third redesigned SK597-AT4 which Oshkosh chief executive Charles Formula 1 championship to will replace the SK 498-AT4. Szews announces his retirement and become only the second British is replaced by Wilson Jones. driver to achieve the feat. Singapore requires health Bushfires threaten homes in the Australian checks for crane operators over German crane rental company Steil state of Victoria. 50 and simplifies the certification requirements takes delivery of its fifthTerex Superlift 3800 for mini crane operators. crawler crane. China drops its One Child policy.

50 cranes & access December/January 2016 December/January 2016 cranes & access 51 UK rental company a look back at 2015 c&a John Sutch Cranes takes delivery of a new 20 tonne Kato CR-200Ri city crane. The all-new National Crane NBT30H-2 boom c&a truck is launched. Haulotte delivers four new 59ft HA20RTJ-Pro boom lifts to Access Platforms Aberdeen - the Hiab launches three new high capacity cranes first in the UK. 17.8 in its ‘Big Five’ range of heavy duty cranes. Snorkel makes secondary guarding systems November Collé Rental & Sales takes standard on all larger boom lifts. industry news delivery of 100 Aichi 40 and Manitou launches two new large 46ft crawler boom lifts. capacity telehandlers in Australia Dingli announces an upgraded 13ft Mammoet adds five new and . self-propelled micro scissor lift. cranes from 30 to 200 tonnes JCB celebrates 70 years since to its UK rental fleet. TVH acquires France Hayon it was founded by Joseph Cyril Group. The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association Bamford. holds its annual conference in Liverpool, UK. Saudi Arabia issues new rules for World News..World News.. World News German crane rental tower cranes and crawler/mobile cranes in the Chinese and Taiwanese presidents, company Wiesbauer wake of the Mecca disaster. Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou formally meet takes delivery of its fifth for the first time. Wolf Haessler’s return to the powered access 700 tonne Terex AC700. industry ends less than 12 months after launch of A Friday night attack by fanatics the WolfLifT. Australian rental company Coates Hire places in Paris results in 132 fatalities. a 2 million order for 90 Hiab compact loader CTE upgrades its B-Lift HR truck € Turkey shoots down a Russian fighter jet, the cranes. mounted lift range with Germany’s first downing of a Russian aircraft by a NATO Hematec taking the first. Jan Denks, former sales director of Bronto member since the 1950s. Skylift leaves the company. Skyjack releases details of a new World leaders attend the opening of range or telehandlers that it will Dutch crane and rigging the United Nations Climate Change launch at the ARA. company Wagenborg Conference in Paris. introduces a compact Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition Italian spider lift manufacturer Bluelift launches articulated electric party win a landslide in the a new 26 metre spider lift, the SA26. crawler crane. Myanmar/Burma elections.

US rental software supplier US-based Imperial Crane Services acquires c&a Wynne Systems Speedway Crane of Joliet, Illinois. acquires rentalresult UK crane rental company Ainscough acquires owner Result Group. Specialist Crane Hire. Kobelco Construction 17.9 Teupen unveils December Machinery and Kobelco Cranes announce details of a new 19 that the two businesses will merge in April 2016. industry metre Leo19T. news Jekko introduces IPAF certifies its a new electric pick first training centre Manitex sells its Load King trailer division to & carry crane - the in New Zealand. Utility One Source for $6.5 million in cash. five tonne Minipicker World News..World News.. World News Manitowoc Cranes appoints MPK50. Unprecedented floods hit Barry L. Pennypacker as chief Five senior technical parts of the USA, the UK executive. and engineering and Tamil Nadu, India. UK-based Baldwins Crane officials are charged Hire was found guilty of in relation to the fatal World leaders converge Corporate Manslaughter Mecca crane overturn. on Paris for the COP21 meeting and reach and was fined £700,000 plus agreement on a long-term deal to reduce global Versalift UK unveils an insulated version of its carbon emissions. £200,000 in costs for the death of operator pick-up mounted LAT135-H platform. Lindsay Easton. Two people open fire inSan Federal Signal sells Bronto Skylift to Morita Bernardino, California killing 14 Italian truck mounted aerial lift manufacturer of Japan. people and injuring 14 others. Isoli launches a partnership Comansa launches Britain’s Tyson Fury defies the odds to defeat with LuiGong the 21LC450 flat top Wladimir Klitschko and make him heavyweight for the Chinese tower crane along champion of the world. and regional with changes to the The UK is gripped with space market. LC2100 series. fever as Tim Peake became the first British man to board the US crane rental company Essex announces it will International Space Station. Versalift distributor Time France opens a new delist its shares. SpaceX lands a Falcon 9 rocket, plant in preparation for the launch its own range the first reusable rocket to successfully enter of van mounted lifts. Ashtead’s A-Plant acquires rack and pinion hoist company G.B. Access. orbital space and return to earth.

52 cranes & access December/January 2016 The Results: Sports and the Oscars c&a a look back at 2015 The major sports Belmont Golf Best Director - Alejandro G. Stakes - winners 2015 British Open - Iñárritu for Birdman American Tennis Zach Johnson Best Supporting Actor - J.K. Pharoah Simmons in Whiplash Australian Open - Men: ridden by Victor Espinoza U.S. Open - Jordan Women: Spieth Best Supporting Actress - Epsom Derby - Golden Horn Serena Williams Patricia Arquette in Boyhood ridden by Frankie Dettori Masters - Jordan Spieth French Open - Best Animated Feature - Big - Many Clouds PGA Championship - Jason Day Men: Stan Wawrinka Hero 6 by Disney ridden by Leighton Aspell Cycling Women: Serena Williams Best Animated Short Film - - Tour de France Davis Cup - Great Britain Feast - Patrick Osborne and - Chris Froome - Kristina Reed Wimbledon - ridden by Nico Team Sky Men: Novak Djokovic Best Documentary Feature - de Boinville English Football Women: Serena CitizenFour Prix de l’Arc F.A Cup - Arsenal beat Aston Villa Williams Best Foreign Language Film - Ida de Triomphe - Golden Horn ridden 4–0 US Open - Men: Novak Djokovic by Frankie Dettori (Poland) Premier League - Women: Flavia Pennetta Best Visual Effects - Interstellar Paul Motor Racing Chelsea American Football/Rugby Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Formula 1 - Driver: The Oscar winners Scott Fisher Super Bowl XLIX - New Lewis Hamilton 2014-2015 England Patriots beat Constructor: Best Live Action Short Film - The Best Picture - Birdman or (The Seattle Seahawks 28-24 Mercedes Phone Call - Mat Kirkby and James Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Lucas - Indianapolis 500 - Juan Pablo Best Actor - Eddie New Zealand Montoya -Team Penske Best Sound Editing - American Sniper Redmayne in The Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman Cricket Theory of Best Cinematography - Birdman - Kentucky Derby - American Cricket World Cup - Australia Everything Pharoah ridden by Victor Espinoza Emmanuel Lubezki Ashes - Best Best Costume Design - Preakness Stakes - England Actress - Julianne The Grand Budapest Hotel American Pharoah ridden by Moore in Still Alice Victor Espinoza - Milena Canonero

December/January 2016 cranes & access 53 a look back at 2015 c&a Those no longer with us From the industry Derek Hathaway 1944 - 2015 Peter Baldwin, 82, British B.B. King, 89, American Lee Kramer 1947 - 2015 Past chief executive officer of actor guitarist, singer and songwriter President of Xtreme Harsco Michael Meacher, 75, Sir Chris Woodhead, 68, British manufacturing - former Tony Narushka 1956 - 2015 British politician educationalist engineering manager at UpRight US born founder and owner Maureen O’Hara, 95, Irish- Patrick Macnee, 93, English Sydney Appleyard 1949 - 2015 of Polish access company American actress actor - The Avengers Instant Polska UK tower crane veteran Al Molinaro, 96, American James Last, 86, German and past chairman of CPA Stephen Rodgers 1951 - 2015 actor composer and big band leader tower crane interest group Access industry veteran - founder of UK Platforms Sir Adrian Cadbury, 86, Erik Carlsson, 86, Swedish rally Dennis Doornbos 1950 - 2015 British businessman driver Owner of Dutch crane Patrick Bastings 1968 - 2015 and access company JLG European region product Judy Carne, 76, British Actress Cynthia Lennon, 75, British author Doornbos Equipment manager for telehandlers Brian Close, 84, English - first wife of John Lennon Bob Dickey Dickie Moore 1931 - 2015 cricketer -Yorkshire, Richard Dysart, 86, American UK crane hire veteran and former Canadian ice hockey player Somerset, England character actor owner of Crane Services, Leeds and founder of Quebec based Peggy Jones, 75, American Ray Charles, 96, American Ivor Kiddle 1925 - 2015 Dickie Moore Rentals guitarist - Lady Bo (Diddley) musician Founder and owner of UK John Colclough former sales Jackie Collins, 77, British- Percy Sledge, 74, American R&B based Quinto Crane manager at Aerial Access and American novelist, singer Deutz UK Fulvio Gomes 1974 - 2015 Brian Sewell, 84, British Alfred Taubman, 91, American A 15 year crane and access Terry Duxbury 1953 - 2015 art critic real estate developer veteran in South America Crane operator and owner of Lifting World crane operators Forum Yogi Berra, 90, baseball Malcolm Fraser, 84, Australian George Kalinika player - New York Yankees, politician, Prime Minister 1938 - 2014 The full tributes to those who New York Mets, member District manager for passed away in 2015 can be found Lee Kuan Yew, 91, Singaporean of 13 World Series politician, Prime Minister UpRight on www.vertikal.net championship teams Rex David Pollock 1945 - 2015 Wider world Michele Ferrero, 89, Italian Cilla Black, 72, British businessman - Ferrero New Zealand crane hire veteran, Wayne Rogers, 82, American singer founder of Todd & Pollock, Alan Howard, 77, English actor actor - ‘Trapper’ John Frank Gifford, 84, American which became Pollock & McIntyre in M.A.S.H Terry Gill, 75, Australian actor Sons Crane Hire football player and broadcaster Natalie Cole, 65, American singer George Cole, 90, English Mario Cuomo, 82, American Stuart Smith 1948 - 2015 politician, Governor of New York Founder and past owner of Lemmy, 70, English rock musician actor Peterborough Crane Hire Motörhead, Hawkwind Wes Craven, 76, American Leonard Nimoy, 83, American actor and director (Star Trek) Gerrit Slijkhuis 1932 - 2015 Derek Ezra, 96, chairman of the film director -A Nightmare Founder and managing director of UK National Coal Board on Elm Street. Donna Douglas, 82, American Malmquist Benelux and a director Jimmy Hill, 87, English Jimmy Evert, 91, American tennis actress - The Beverly Hillbillies, Elly of Malmquist AB football player and TV player and coach, May Clampett Ray Kane 1928-2015 presenter Oliver Sacks, 82, British Omar Karami, 80, Lebanese Former vice president of Harry Hyams, 87, British property neurologist and author - The Man politician, Prime Minister manufacturing at Grove developer (Centre Point) Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Anita Ekberg, 83, Swedish-Italian Peter Allison 1924 - 2015 Anthony Valentine, 76, Stephen Lewis, 88, British actress Former Coles Cranes and British actor comedy actor Rod Taylor, 84, Australian actor Grove director Chuck Williams, 100, founder of Edward Montagu of - The Birds Peter Elmer 1956 - 2015 Williams-Sonoma Beaulieu, 88, founder of the Peter Wallenberg Sr., 88, Pioneer of the Swiss aerial lift National Motor Museum. Swedish financier and industrialist, industry Greville Janner, 87, British MP Val Doonican, 88, Irish King Abdullah bin Abdul Peter Ellison 1957 - 2015 singer and television Aziz of Saudi Arabia, 90 Applications engineer for Pat Eddery, 63, Irish jockey, presenter Ron Moody, 91, actor - Fagin Hiab/Cargotec UK, Helmut Schmidt, 96, Sir Nicholas Winton, 106, British Jeffrey Michael Johnson chancellor of West Germany humanitarian, rescued 669 children Colleen McCullough, 77, 1965 - 2015 (1974 - 1982) as part of Kindertransport Australian author - The Thorn Birds Owner of San Diego-based Allen Toussaint, 77, American Cecil, 13, protected Richard von Weizsäcker, 94, All Access Equipment musician, songwriter ‘Working in Zimbabwean lion former president of West Germany Rentals the Coal Mine’, ‘Southern Nights’ Omar Sharif, 83, Egyptian Ruth Rendell, 85, Author - Andrew Bailey 1968 - 2015 Saeed Jaffrey, 86, Indian- actor Inspector Wexford Banner Plant powered British actor access manager Jules Bianchi, 25, French Formula Robert Loggia, 85, American Jim Slater, 86, British One driver, head injuries sustained actor and director Simon Wilkinson financier in a race collision 1957 - 2015 Shigero Mizuki, 93, father of Jonah Lomu, 40, All Blacks Lynn Anderson, 67, American Manga animation UK crane and access rugby player equipment finance country singer - ‘Rose Garden’ Terry Pratchett, 66, fantasy specialist Bob Foster, 77, American boxer, Charles Kennedy, 55, author world light heavyweight champion Ken Barnes 1934 - 2015 British politician, Leader of James Horner, 61, Oscar Former managing director of Hugh Scully, 72, British the Liberal Democrats winning composer Grayston Crane Hire television presenter Tariq Aziz, 79, Iraqi Kim Young Sam, 87, former Leroy ‘Buddy’ Dieter Gordon Honeycombe, 79, politician, foreign minister president of South Korea 1958 - 2015 British newscaster Alan Bond, 77, Australian Rod McKuen, 81, American poet Vice president sales for Henning Mankell, 67, Swedish businessman and and songwriter Haulotte North America author (Kurt Wallander) convicted fraudster Demis Roussos, 68, Greek Singer Patrick Van Seumeren 1968 - 2015 Geoffrey Howe, 88, UK Sir Christopher Lee, 93, Former chief operating officer of Louis Jourdan, 93, French film chancellor and Foreign British actor actor - Gigi Mammoet Secretary

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