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A new developmentā?¦.. A Single Hand Actuated Lockable

HAL HAL

A NEW seat fixture produced by Unwin Safety Systems will make life easier and safer for everyone involved with community transport.

Unwin’s Hand Actuated Lockable (HAL) allows most seat manufacture to be simply taken in and out of vehicles.

HAL’s main innovation is a rear handle with a concealed button. All that’s required to secure a seat, once HAL’s been fitted to the bottom of its legs, is to place it in a rail and push the handle. To unlock, press the button and pull the handle.

Since Unwin previewed HAL at the Community Transport Association exhibition earlier this year, its simplicity, robustness and flexibility have been exciting interest in Britain and abroad. Now, after further finessing, HAL is available as part of the standard Unwin product range.

Gerry O’Connor, Unwin’s sales and marketing director, said: ‘You don’t have to be mechanically-minded to use HAL. You don’t have to have big muscles. When it’s wet and dark and cold outside, you can just use it, everybody can just use it."

"We wanted to produce something different and with the interest we’re getting in the market and the response we’re getting from people, it feels like we’ve succeeded.’

Bath and North East Somerset Council (BANES) is already using HAL. Barry Richards, BANES’ service team manager, said: ‘We’ve got a new fleet of 14 buses all fitted with HAL, four 24-seat Mercedes Varios, two 16-seat Mercedes Sprinters, and eight Peugeot Boxers with 14 seats.

HAL is easy to use and is working very efficiently. Drivers tell me that they’re getting on with it well and it is making things quicker. The fact that Unwins keep on improving products makes us all very pleased’.

Rob Butcher, Unwin’s director of engineering, said that HAL had gone through 18 months of concept reviews, prototypes, tests and refinements.

He revealed: ‘The project name for HAL was Paradigm – as in paradigm shift – and for us that’s what it represents.

The biggest shift is putting the user interface – the handle - to the rear of the unit and the seat, which really does make it easier to use.

In terms of its technical achievement, I think it’s unique. We’ve allowed a significant overload capacity, which you could suggest is over-engineering, but it’s safer and it increases the number of seats it can be used with.


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