Bridging a gap at the NEC
November 1st 2005

For many years, the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham has been using hydraulic loading dock tables to serve kitchen to restaurant requirements in Halls 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Installed in 1976, the units were in need of replacing. The contract was secured by Birch Engineering (Cuffley). It supplied two versions of the Marcolift tables. Both models included loading flaps designed to bridge the gap between lifting table and loading station.

All models supplied have a closed height of 300mm.

Lifting time ranges from 23 to 27sec and each table has a service hatch above the motor. Two of the tables have a platform length of 2000mm and two have a length of 3000mm.

Each table includes as standard a limit switch allowing easy setting of maximum lift, dampers for a smooth stop when lowering, safety trip bars, hose burst valve, motor protectors, emergency lowering valves, grease nipples and a flow control valve for easy adjustment of In what is a first for Mosca speed.

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