Kingsbury Builders Merchants’
location in London’s Kentish
Town is convenient for local
customers, but the cost of land posed
a potentially expensive problem for
the company’s plan to expand its
range of timber. By replacing a
counterbalance truck with a
Combilift 4-way forklift, Kingsbury
has been able to increase the amount
of product stored by 60%.

The limited manoeuvrability of
Kingsbury’s counterbalance truck left
no space to install racking for timber
packs which come in lengths to 6m.

Suresh Patel, sales manager, says:
“By fitting a thinner two-stage mast
to the 3t LPG powered model,
Combilift engineers were able to
shorten the platform to enable the
truck to work in the available space
with just inches to spare. Adding
extra ballast to the chassis ensures
that stability is not compromised
even when 2.5t packs are lifted to the
top racks of 5.5m.”
Deliveries can now be carried on
the truck’s platform and manoeuvred
sideways into the yard, boosting
health and safety procedures.