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Enterprise Day, New HQ launch party
I’m very fortunate to operate in an industry I love and so enjoy the vast majority of my days at work. But some days, like Saturday 11 November – stand head and shoulders above the rest. We purchased a 3 acre site a former cattery some 5 years ago. Since then we have successfully negotiated…
Posh COSHH
Taking advantage of a couple days between jobs, the painting crew took one of our Secure COSHH stores that has been out on a long term hire. She was solid, but a bit sad looking. A thorough prep and a shiny coat of ‘Southdown’ blue and we’re good to go again! Pictures courtesy of Wayne…
9 time: How to move massive road plates
As engineers and construction/refurbishment specialists become more skilled they rely on us at ROADPLATEHIRE to create larger and more ambitious solutions. These 9 metre long brutes were no exception. Fortunately, the processing of them in our cavernous new 21 metre x 12 metre production hall was fairly straightforward for Lyndon and his experienced team. But…
We’ve moved!
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve moved to a new purpose built facility for our ever expanding operations at the Southdown Enterprise Park near Henfield. Our new address is: Road Plate Hire A division of Southdown Engineers Ltd (Company number: 03390702) Unit WEST Southdown Enterprise Park Shoreham Road Henfield BN5 9SE ///whizzed.prospers.ironclad
A hole and a half
Extra care, extra service and extra large plates were required for this excavation mitigation in NW London. Our ex stock 6×3 plates roadplates were the solution to this particular chasm. Pictures courtesy of Scott Tait
Heavy Duty Pavement Protection
A nice example of how a nice, quality decorative stone paved area can be saved from the rigours forklift truck, HGV and Genie access boom traffic. In this case a large retail space required renovation and a dozen panels TUFFTRAK showed their versatility. The load spreading capacity that’s so useful in traversing soft ground was…
Pumpkin Patch
We were very pleased to help Oli and his crew from the Poynings Pumpkin Patch again this year. As always, it was a great day out with good clean (well… sort of 🙂 ) fun for the whole family. Nobody minds sticking their welly boots on for the ‘on field’ action, but Oli’s care and…
A nice pad in Knightsbridge?!
Working in our great capital city is always a challenge. Requiring care, patience, special compliances like FORS Silver but above all… planning! So when our transport division were asked for help by our partners Kingswell Heavy Haulage and their client A.J.Wells Ltd we marshalled ourselves to dot all of the ‘i’s and cross all of…
what3words: ///visa.gets.ashes – Sheffield City Crematorium
It’s not something a lot of us give a lot of thought to, but the business of the proper and respectful processing of the mortal remains of our nearest and dearest requires a good deal of engineering nous. So it was interesting to get involved with a behind the scenes refit of Sheffield’s well patronised…
EXCEL-LING
A customer of Southdown’s for over 25 years, going back to the Jones/Iron Fairy days has been busy inventing. And come up with the EVACSTAC prefabricated, modular fire escape that can be retrospectively installed to virtually any existing high-rise building. Basically an ‘anti-Grenfell’ device, the units once installed come complete with fire hose compatible water…