Road and rail maintenance company Amey is acquiring 110 Vauxhall Astravan 1.3 CDTi Clubs for use by its engineers. No less than 61 of the vehicles have already been delivered to the company, fully-equipped, in just over a week so that they can be used on a newly-won contract with Network Rail.They were dispatched from the Ellesmere Port, Cheshire factory — complete with upper mesh bulkheads fitted on the assembly line — to supplying dealer York Ward & Rowlett in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, to have ladder racks and hazard warning beacons fitted, their liveries applied and their load areas ply-lined. They were then distributed to locations as far afield as Fort William in Scotland.
A further 49 Astravans built to the same specifications will be delivered over the next two months. Amey plans to run all 110 for five years during which time each will have clocked up approximately 100,000 miles.
