Nationwide Access, the UK¹s leading supplier of powered access equipment for hire, recently reached a new milestone in their depot expansion programme when they opened their 50th UK depot.

The latest depot - in Lancaster Road Business Park, Shrewsbury - has a fleet of 40 powered access scissor and boom lifts and will offer full hire, sales and service facilities.

When Nationwide Access were acquired by Lavendon Group plc in December 1992, there were only seven depots in the network. Lavendon launched a sustained programme of new depot openings which included the first Scottish depot - at Hamilton - being opened in 1995 and the first Irish depot coming on line in Belfast at the end of last year.

Nationwide now have about 5,000 machines in their UK fleet and a customer base of over 8,500 accounts.

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