Dennis backed the Mayflower bid although it subsequently emerged that some of the company's directors supported the Henlys bid. In July 1999 Mayflower sold Dennis Eagle to NatWest Equity Partners for 31m. Mayflower retained the Dennis fire engine business. Trinity Holdings Trinity Holdings was formed in 1989 from a 27.3m mbo from Hestair. The mbo was led by Geoff Hollyhead.
Trinity manufactures a variety of specialist vehicles.
It makes buses and the Dennis-branded fire engines. In October 1992 Trinity Holdings floated at a valuation of 61.7m. In December 1995 ML Holdings sold its aircraft vehicles manufacturing business to Trinity Holdings for 14m. In the late 1980s Nacco acquired its factories at Craigavon in Northern Ireland and Irvine in Scotland after buying Hyster of the US and Yale of the US, two material handling businesses. Pascon Group Pascon Group manufactures plant equipment.