40多年的制造历史，Sidetracker的侧载机在搬运长的与棘手的负载上，仍然走在创造性与可靠性的前列，其也保持着家族式所有的性质。
Sidetracker是多向叉车的制造专家，适用于您有长的与棘手负载的搬运需求。其有40,000多种标准模型系列，如果不适用于特殊情况，我们仍可为您设计与制造。
Sidetracker叉车与传统的叉车相比，其装载货物可运作于通道宽度减少73%的极窄通道场合。
Sidetracker的侧载机具有难以置信的灵活性，意味着货物的运送、搬运与仓存都最有效的利用空间，按照最安全的指示。
我们生产可谓最广泛系列的多向叉车以适用于众多不同的场合，能够帮助您的利益最大化，若要进一步提升您的获益，我们也能够提供不同的空间。
所有的侧载机可通过轨道牵引，不仅减少了堆垛通道的宽度，使得循环作业更加快速，而且也保护了产品与相关设备免受损坏。
我们的用户反馈通过适用Sidetracker的产品，使得仓存容量增加了两倍，节约时间达到95%。按照这种方式适用有价值的资源戏剧性地提高了效用，这是以前所达不到的，最终带来了更具竞争性与增加的获益性。
Celebrating over 40 years of manufacture, Sidetracker Sideloaders are still at the forefront of innovation and reliability when it comes to moving long and awkward loads and is still in the same family ownership.
Working for the Production Engineering Research Association in the 1950s on projects to improve productivity, Chairman Peter Dobson saw a need for efficient materials handling equipment in factories, particularly where long loads were involved. Eventually, he patented designs for a multi-directional transport system and then in 1963 formed the company. The first trucks, built part-time in an old stable, were un-powered models which had to be pushed, but they did incorporate a multi-wheel design which allowed them to move sideways as well as forwards and backwards. The first year's turnover was £700.
The first fully powered production model was sold to Chesterfield Transport Department for use in the bus maintenance workshop. It was a four-way model and had a ton capacity. This was followed by models with greater load capacities and higher lift heights, and a guided narrow-aisle system was also developed.
Reliability
In 1976 the company, by now in a purpose built factory, produced its first fully multi-directional model which incorporated many of the design principles that are still applied today. Since the earliest days reliability has been one of the most important considerations, because it was recognised that unlike general purpose pallet trucks - a high proportion of customers would only operate a single Sidetracker and they would usually not be able to hire a short-term replacement quickly if anything serious went wrong.
It is this design principle that led to the inclusion of dual power systems on every model, which enables them to operate without loss of load capacity or lift height, even if one power unit is removed for repair. For the same reason, the trucks continue to use electro-hydraulic control systems rather than electronics, which can still be adversely affected by rough surfaces and the treatment trucks typically receive.
While the company has avoided innovation for its own sake, many technical advances have been developed and incorporated over the years. The rail guidance system designed 35 years ago was probably the first in the UK, and recently the company developed a multi-direction truck with joystick controlled all-wheel steering.
The rugged simplicity of the battery-powered Sidetrackers also means they are able to operate outdoors, and many customers use them as multi-purpose load handlers rather than solely for narrow aisle warehouse duties. The specification of the latest models makes them ever more versatile: load capacities now reach 15,000kg and lift heights can be over 10m.
The advantages of the multi-directional Sidetrackers are well understood in sectors where handling long loads is a standard rather than an unusual procedure such as steel stockholders and window profile manufacturers where Sidetrackers operate in aisles from 1.5 metres wide with loads as long as 21 metres.
Space saving
Over the last few years the manoeuvrability and space-saving capabilities of the multi-direction Sidetrackers have caught the eye of less typical customers. Polestar Varnicoat, one of the UK's leading gravure printers, uses two trucks to carry printing cylinders and stillages up to 4.5m long around the works, passing along corridors and through openings that could not be negotiated by conventional lift trucks. They also have special pivoting forks to enable them to carry stillages or individual cylinders of various lengths.
For household removals and storage specialists, Michael Gerson, the arrival of a Sidetracker has allowed an extra 108 storage containers, each 370ft3 capacity, to be stored on its restricted site in North London. The truck is designed to lift the cases, which weigh up to three tonnes, to 8.1m.