And Handling Grove Worldwide has a long history of supplying the military with mobile lifting and aerial access equipment. Grove Europe, based in the UK, has been assessed and registered as complying with quality assurance standard ISO9001. The cranes most widely used now by the military are the all-terrain models. There are eighteen machines in this range, offering a lift capacity from 20 to 250 tonnes with a tip height from 37 to 113.5m. The company also offers specially designed cranes for ammunition handling to British Ministry of Defence requirements.
Industrial cranes have a military role as the steady workhorse of base or dockyard.
Compact and easy to use, they are designed primarily for materials handling and maintenance. The Warrior battlefield repair crane is an armoured maintenance vehicle. It is a tracked unit fitted with a telescopic crane and designed for forward area duties. Access platforms are now specified by major westem forces for many applications including maintenance, ship and aircraft repair and painting. Driven and operated entirely from the platform itself, the range offers articulating boom, telescopic and scissor-lift machines and platform heights from 4.9 to 38.1m and maximum platform capacities from 227 to 907kg.