Machine Tool Sales Online have been a valuable customer of ours for a number of years.
We were asked if we could deliver a number of various machine tools to a workshop in Coventry with very limited access.
The only way to access the workshop was across a field.
After careful planning we hired a large capacity all-terrain forklift truck and got to work.

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Large Format Digital Textile Printing Specialists

Founded in 2001, i-Sub is headed by key industry personnel with decades of experience in the sublimation print and textile industries. i-Sub are fully authorised to supply and support solutions from leading manufacturers including Epson, Dgen, Coldenhove, Mimaki, Sensient, Monti Antonio, Reggiani, ROQ and many more.

We were contacted by I-Sub with whom we have a very strong relationship with and asked if we could collect a machine located on the 2nd floor of a building.
The machine was 7.2 tons, 5m long, 2.6m wide and 1.5m tall. We had to use our bespoke lifting cage to form a platform outside the building for onward delivery.

Snibston was mainly a rural area until a part of it was transformed into a coal mining village by the Snibston Colliery Company. This happened in the early 1830s. After that, this part of the area has seen much development and has been converted into a town named Coalville.

The main Snibston Colliery faced its doom in 1831 and after that, the colliery area was transformed into a park called Snibston Discovery Park and it also had a museum named Snibston Discovery Museum. The museum however, is closed now.

George Stephenson, who was a pioneer in railway engineering, and his son Robert Stephenson came to the area in the late part of the 1820s. They were involved with the Leicester and Swannington Railway. This railway was being built in order to transport coal from the area to the Leicester.

The Snibston estate was owned by Leonard Forbrooke of Ravenstone Hall and Snibston Grange. He died in 1830 and shortly after his death, the entire estate along with an uncompleted colliery with a new Boulton and Watt type steam engine and colliery equipment were sold to the Stephensons and the completion of the Snibston No 2 colliery took place.

The now closed Snibston Discovery Museum was actually a part of the Discovery Park. This was built on the site of the former Snibston Colliery No 2 and was an award winning interactive museum filled with modern technology and learning tools. The museum was managed by Leicester County Council and the effort was supported by Next and the National Forest. The museum finally closed in 2012 and is currently Heritage Lottery funded.

The Leicester County Council announced in 2015 that the museum and the land was to be sold and the museum was finally closed on 31st July of 2015. The demolition process of the main hall began in early March 2016 and was completed by April 2016.

Bio courtesy of www.snibston.com

Following the decision to close the museum we were to play an instrumental role in the decommisioning, packaging and relocation of the artefacts to their new homes around Leicestershire.

Bespoke lifting frames were created for many items to insure there safety during craning out of the building and onto our vehicles for transportation.

Due to the cultural significance of the artefacts and in some cases their uniqueness every care was taken to insure their safety during transit.

Leicester Machine Movers completed the contract which include decommissioning, tagging and burning progress photos onto a disk at the customer’s request without any problems or damage to any of the artefacts and within the time allotted prior to demolition of the museum.

Printing machine lifting & Internal view of print machine lift Stylo Graphics, Watford.

Leicester Machine Movers have carried out the transportation and installation of Fryers and counters for KFE for many years.

We work very closely with KFE to ensure they recieve the highest standard of service possible during transportation and installation of their products.

Testimonial

"KFE are proud to have been associated with Leicester Machine Movers since 1998. We have worked hard over the years to establish KFE and KIREMKO as brand leaders of top quality frying equipment into the Fish and Chip industry and like to work with partners who are similarly recognised within their field, which is certainly the case with LMM. Their experience and expertise has ensured the smooth collection and more importantly professional delivery to site of our high value frying ranges.
Over the years we have established a wonderful, close relationship between the Evans and Williams families which we look forward to continuing long into the future."

Paul Williams
Managing Director