When Cats Protection, the UK’s leading feline welfare charity, built its warehouse on the site of its National Cat Centre in Chelwood Gate, Sussex it was the year of the charity’s eightieth anniversary.

After London's 275 tube stations have closed their doors to the last of the late-night revellers and those enjoying less social working hours, the London Underground springs back to life as an army of maintenance staff invade the platforms and tunnels beneath the city.

Finding a way of delivering to site and undertaking field maintenance work for heavy and unwieldy products like safes, motors and compressors within the confines of modern Health and Safety legislation can be tricky as the law permits no excuses - handling techniques either comply or they don't.

Seldom has the name PowerMate been more appropriate than in its function for Peterborough based JC Couriers for whom it has reduced from five to two or three the number of personnel required to deliver and install the larger items handled under contract for Hobart's, the UK's foremost manufacturer of commercial catering equipment.

"Excuse me, I've got a large machine in the van to deliver to your address - can you give me a hand to off-load it?"

Producing banknotes may appear an exotic pastime to the uninitiated but it should come as no surprise to find that, in practice, it demands simply the best in modern manufacturing and product handling practices - errors are costly and the margins understandably tight.