26.02.2018

Hird rebrands and adds to fleet

UK crane and access sales and rental company Hird has taken delivery of a 25 tonne Valla 250E electric pick & carry crane, and has changed its official company name to Hird Ltd.

Established in 1982 as Peter Hird and Sons, the company now employs 100 throughout three depots at its headquarters in Hull, as well as Doncaster and London. The company is the authorised UK and Ireland distributor for Valla Manitex pick and carry cranes and Winlet glazing robots, and also sell Wienold mini cranes and Wirth glass vacuum lifters.

The Valla 250E has a four section boom and can lift up to seven tonnes to a height of approximately 10 metres. Maximum radius with the boom horizontal is seven metres, at which it can handle a four tonne load.
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The Valla 250E (R) joins a substantial Valla fleet at Hird

Ideal for indoor use, the machine's overall width is 2.15 metres, overall length is 5.8 metres and overall height is 2.3 metres, and is fitted with 3B6 digital load monitoring systems. The machine has already been used by Ainscough Vanguard and British Aerospace for machine installations.
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Managing director Phil Hird with the new Valla 250E

Managing director Phil Hird said: "We have decided the time is right to rebrand to our new name, as we are already commonly known in our industry as Hird.
Over recent years we have grown into a very large organisation and our name needed to reflect this. Our previous name was thought to be very old school for today’s modern society, however it has served us very well for the last 35 years."
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"Out with the old and in with the new"