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• BRS Midlands' Leicester branch has installed Ratcliff 100kg Quickfit Lifts to 20 new Daf 2100s in its rental fleet. The Quickfit, also available in a 500kg capacity, has been designed to be fitted by a bodybuilder in half a day. BRS is fitting the lifts to uprate its truck rental fleet from plain load carriers to load lifters.
• Allen-Bradley, the Jarrow-based vehicle electronic components manufacturer, has changed hands as part of a £9 million management buy-out. General Hybrid, a new company formed by AllenBradley's managing director Jack Armstrong, has bought the business from US engineering group Rockwell International.
• DFDS Seaways has doubled its freight capacity on the Harwich-Hamburg run with the launch of the 13,352-tonne Hamburg. The new ferry can take 60 trailers on the 19-hour sailing, as well as 400 cars and 1,069 passengers.
• New vehicle leasing and contract hire company Leasing Principals (CM 11 April), has won a £0.75 million contract to supply over 80 company vans and cars to fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (GB).