To achieve this, Scania (GB) appointed the late David Crowther as their Specialist Vehicles Sales Manager. David previously had extensive experience working in the waste industry with Glover Webb and Liversidge, Jack Allen’s and Trio Containers.
David achieved the sale of the first Scania chassis to a UK local authority in 1993, the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. This was a low emission Euro One Scania P93ML 6x2/4RA 250 chassis with a second steer and lift axle plated at 25,500kg (GVW). Its chassis was fitted with a 22m3 Farid Municipal Vehicles Ltd ECO 2600 rear loading unit, complete with Otto Olympic high level split bin lifting equipment. The Scania cab had a dual passenger seat