We like a challenge. Then we engineer it.
Over the years we have been required to make unique lifts for one-off applications and small specialist vehicle batches. Using decades of experience and our modular lift section design, PLS can design, create, modify and customise any combination imaginable — while holding the same engineering standards and quality of finish as our catalogue product.
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Battlefield Medical Units
This modified version of our Access Lift was designed for quick deployment medical units for frontline battlefield situations. Designed and developed in the UK, then shipped across the world, this project not only include the lift but a full field service setup of spare parts, tools, and equipment to ensure this lift keeps working in the most challenging environments.
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Custom-sized medical platforms
With high-deck coach lifts and Quad-ram technology, PLS makes some of the largest platforms with the longest reaching arms of any cassette-based lift in the world. The added stability lets a medical platform be sized to a specific requirement — important where staff must travel on the lift with the passenger.
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Six-wheel-drive mobile animal surgery
If you were designing a one-off six-wheel-drive monster truck mobile animal surgery unit, where else would you go to make the vehicle accessible? The truck spends months deep in the Indian countryside, where workshops and facilities are scarce — so the lift was designed to be strong and simple to use.
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Blue Mountain rescue ambulance
Probably the most extreme cassette lift fitted on the planet. When Amtek, a specialist vehicle manufacturer in Sydney, needed a one-off rescue ambulance for an Australian ski resort, they turned to PLS for an ultra-durable, low-maintenance stretcher lift: special paint, self-lubricating parts and simple manual operation.
Cut it. Bend it. Fold it. Weld it. Paint it.
We can do it.
At our core we are an engineering and fabrication business. From in-house laser cutting capabilities, through to our own paint plant. There isn’t much we can’t do.
Handrails & grab poles
Bent, welded and polished to the entrance geometry — stanchions, folding rails and assist handles positioned for the actual step the passenger takes.
Luggage pens
Designed to keep bags secure and out of the way, helping provide a safer journey for all.
Structural metalwork
Mounting frames, reinforcement and floor plates for specialist applications.
Doors, trim & finish
Aperture surrounds, kick plates and hatch covers — matched paint and specialist coatings.
Any combination imaginable
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Define your needs. Floor height, aperture, payload, who travels on the platform and where the vehicle works.
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We design your custom solution. Modular lift sections, specialist platforms, and Quad-ram geometry, designed for your installation.
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Build, finish, support. Same standards, warranty and parts supply as everything else we ship.
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Install or hand over. Fitted by us or documented for your workshop, with training if your team wants it.