British-Irish Airports EXPO exhibitor Aebi Schmidt has supplied a Street King 660 truck mounted sweeper to London Luton Airport, which is currently the subject of a planned £110 million redevelopment.
London Luton Airport (LLA), currently the subject of a planned £110 million redevelopment, has found the newly-delivered Street King 660 truck mounted sweeper from Peterborough-based sweeping specialist, Aebi Schmidt, perfect for keeping up appearances.
LLA bought the new state-of-the-art Street King 660 late last year to sweep the airport’s terminal frontage, car parks and roadways as part of a move to improve appearance and image of the airport from a user perspective.
“We have a relationship going back almost 20 years with Aebi Schmidt and already use one of their runway sweepers and a Swingo, so we knew the levels of reliability and customer care we could expect with the Street King,” says Liam Bolger, Head of Airside, London Luton Airport.
Launched last summer, the Street King is designed to fit any standard two-axle sweeper chassis, and has already attracted orders from new and existing customers who have been won over by its stunning array of special features and stand-out USPs, faster working times and lower operating costs.
“We wanted a medium-size sweeper that was manoeuvrable, easy to operate and which looked good around the front of the airport from a passenger point of view. The Street King has ticked all our boxes,” Bolger adds. “The team love it, it’s very easy to drive and to operate, thanks to the ES control panel, and it has certainly proved man enough to tackle our car parks, roadways and frontage.”
It is also extremely operator friendly thanks to Aebi Schmidt’s cutting-edge ES control panel, which, through a highly visual 7-inch touch screen, is not only easy to use, intuitive and completely flexible, but its simplicity reduces training to a minimum.
Richard Bryant, Managing Director of Aebi Schmidt UK, comments: “Naturally, we are delighted that LLA has found our new Street King to be the perfect tool for the job in keeping its car parks, roadways and terminal frontage spick and span. With the Street King, we have a compact, flexible design, high hopper capacity, clean engine technology and superb driver comfort, which combine to deliver our over-arching objective of making it as easy to operate as possible from a driver point of view. The new Street King 660 sweeps faster, misses less, works longer and allows the operator to drive faster, making it the perfect partner for tackling a job of this nature – as the team at LLA has now discovered.”
LLA is currently investing over £110 million to transform the airport and increase capacity from 12 million to 18 million passengers per year by 2020. The redevelopment plans will include a complete redesign of the terminal, bringing in new and exciting retail and dining options, and major upgrades to transport links, including better road access to the M1, new car parking facilities, a remodelled bus and coach interchange, and improved rail links to Luton Airport Parkway station. In addition, plans for a new £200 million light rail system linking the airport with Luton Airport Parkway station have been announced and are anticipated to be completed by 2020.
