MARSHALL SHOWS NEW VEHICLES AT DVD 2009

New Gun Towing Vehicle and Tail Lift Vehicle provide centre piece Marshall solutions also on display on DT&ES PT area

Cambridge, 24th June 2009; Marshall Land Systems is using DVD, the defence exhibition focused on equipment and support for the UK's Armed Forces, to display two new support solutions for the first time together with its range of capabilities in protected logistics, protected workspaces and capability management.

At the front of the display on Stand SP6, the Cambridge based company is showing an example of how it has taken its knowledge of load beds, chassis dynamics and systems integration to demonstrate how an in-service chassis can be put to different uses. Featured is one of the possibilities, a new Gun Towing Vehicle, others include radar towing vehicle or mobile command centres. This new vehicle, which has been developed as a private venture, is based on the six tonne MAN HX60 Support Vehicle, which is entering service with British Forces, though the capability could equally apply to the nine and 15 tonne variants. It carries a detachment of eight together with two 1.86 tonne NATO ammunition pallets and is fitted with a crane. The load bed has been configured to accommodate the human factor requirements for a prime mover allowing it to tow guns, radars or similar.

The recently announced tail lift variant of the UK's Support Vehicle fleet is also publically on show for the first time. The cantilever design has a lift capability of 750kg with significant growth margin and has been designed to minimise the impact on cross country mobility and fording ability whilst providing protection against hostile environments.

The company's capabilities in Unmanned Ground Vehicles are also be on display. These include the Grand Challenge winning, tracked Saturn vehicle and the wheeled Sentry lightweight, Class I RFI vehicle, capable of delivering payloads very high or very low.

At the rear of the stand are two shelters. The first of these is a camp infrastructures shelter from Marshall's Norwegian partners, CSI. This includes an ablution segment and a separate catering facility. The second shelter is a 3-in-1 Matrix expandable shelter which houses a display showing the company's complete range of solutions.

Marshall Land Systems is also participating on the MoD's Direct Support and Test Equipment Project Team's (DS&ET PT) display with the Deployable Machine Shop (DMS) and the Power Pack Repair Facility (PPRF). The DMS provides facilities for engineers to carryout front line support milling, turning and finishing of electrical parts and servicing of much of the complex equipment now in service. The PPRF is a shelter based workshop with facilities for repairing and servicing Challenger 2, Warrior and AS90 power packs.

DVD is being held at the Millbrook Proving Ground, near Bedford on the 24th and 25th of June, 2009.

Notes for Editors

Marshall Land Systems (MLS) is part Marshall Group, a large (£750M) family owned independent group of companies involved in the automotive, aerospace and land systems areas. Headquartered in Cambridge UK, Marshall Group can trace its history back to 1909.

MLS specialises predominantly in defence vehicle and shelter design, manufacture, integration and product support. MLS has three major components, of which MSV is one, that design and produce shelters and specialist vehicles, manufacture vehicle load beds and a specialist design division which carries out UOR work, EOD, EMI, EMC, Safety Cases and Consultancy.

Further information is available at www.marshall-ls.com

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