Yorkshire Platform Specialists Trade Harry Potter Boom Lift

    WEST YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND, April 09, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Horizon Platforms, the West Yorkshire-based access platform hire and sales specialists, recently traded a piece of movie history when they bought and sold a boom lift used in the filming of the Hollywood blockbusters Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - parts 1 and 2.

Boom lifts are mobile work platforms used in the film industry for shooting scenes from high positions, such as the motorbike chase featuring characters Harry and Hagrid (pictured).

Horizon Platforms sold the boom lift (a Genie 45/25 Bi Energy) on to a bed company, who now use it for far more mundane maintenance tasks around their factory.

Rory Duggan, Joint Managing Director of Horizon Platforms, said, "We only found out this particular boom lift's history when we took delivery of it, and were very excited to learn it had played a part in one of the highest-grossing films of all time.

"We're used to supplying access platforms for people who want to work safely at heights from 3 metres to 40 metres for a variety of jobs, but we've never had one from the movie business before.

"These kind of platforms are often the safest means of access and give you a great deal of versatility when you're working at height. That means there's always a demand for them, and we had a buyer wanting to purchase this particular boom lift very quickly.

"Harrison Spinks, the Leeds-based bed manufacturers, bought the platform after trialing it on site for two days. They've taken advantage of Horizon ongoing Service and Maintenance package ensuring that their platform will be inspected and cared for over the coming years. We are sure that they'll give it a good home - even if its film-making days are over."

About Horizon Platforms
Horizon Platforms (www.horizonplatforms.co.uk) provide safe and easy access platform hire, sales and training to customers across the North of England and beyond.

The company offers:
- a powered access rental fleet of cherry pickers, scissor lifts, boom platforms and personnel lifts
- an experienced team of driver demonstrators to customers across the North of England
- nationwide coverage through the Access Alliance, a nationwide network of trusted partners providing access platforms to customers throughout the UK; and
- International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) training and certification for new and experienced platform users.

A privately owned company based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Horizon Platforms has grown 400 per cent since starting in 2008, and now runs a fleet of more than 400 mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs) with an annual turnover in 2012 of GBP4.8 million.

The company employs 32 people across its sites in Wakefield and Warrington, Cheshire.

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