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IT’S ‘WAVE AND PAY’ IN THE PARK
Published: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:46:05 GMT
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‘MAYDAY’ CALL FOR SOLAR POWER
Published: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:06:32 GMT
It was a ‘Mayday’ call from the London Borough of Croydon to Metric Parking for more solar power.
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LEEDS GOES ‘ALL METRIC’
Published: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:08:27 GMT

Leeds City Council has gone ‘all Metric’.
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SELLING IS ABOUT USING YOUR ‘LOAF’
Published: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:21:26 GMT

The UK’s only manufacturer of pay and display machines is using its ‘loaf’ when it comes to selling – into the bakery trade.
Premier Foods – bakers of Hovis – are the latest to purchase a Metric Aura for staff purchases of bread at their Wigan bakery.
It’s the same principle at Warburtons where Metric Accents issue tickets for lower cost factory shop bread.
Two Accents have been installed in the Wednesbury bakery for staff purchases. A number of other Warburton factories, including Enfield, Bristol and Newport, also have Metric machines for issuing tickets.
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LONDON BOROUGHS ORDER METRIC PARKING MACHINES
Published: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:45:14 GMT
Six London Boroughs have placed orders for pay and
display parking machines with Swindon-based Metric Parking, the UK’s only parking machine manufacturer.
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PARKING MACHINES THAT ARE MAKING HISTORY
Published: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:17:01 GMT
Four Metric Aura pay and display parking machines are making their own bit of history.
The black machines have been installed along rural roads where traffic parks for one of the UK’s most prestigious and popular tourist attractions.
The four pay and display machines take £4 a day from tourists for parking their vehicles on the roads leading to Snowdon – the highest peak in Wales that ranks amongst the most beautiful in the world.
Snowdon, or in Welsh Yr Wyddfa (the tomb), stands at an altitude of 1,085 metres (3,560 ft) above sea level and is climbed by thousands of visitors each year.
The machines are proving their worth to a North Wales partnership which chose Metric Parking of Swindon to supply the Aura - and their sales and technical expertise – specially for this outstanding National Park visitor attraction.

Metric has installed a total of nine Auras – including the four unique country roadside machines – in the Snowdonia National Park which is a mecca for tourists from the UK and abroad.
In a scheme called Snowdonia Green Key, Metric was commissioned to supply their latest generation Aura pay and display parking machine to assist the partnership of Snowdonia National Park, the Countryside Council for Wales and Gwynedd and Conwy Councils.
The Metric Aura is collecting £4 a day parking fees (£2 half a day) in car parks and roadsides in the Snowdonia National Park area.
There are four Metric Aura roadside parking machines in Pen-y-Gwryd and the others have been installed in the National Park’s car parks in Nant Peris, Watkin Path and Snowdon Ranger Path.
Two of the machines in Llanberis have been enclosed in metal shelters due to vandalism which the partnership has reported to the police who are investigating.
Apart from the vandalism, a spokesperson for Gwynedd Council said the partnership was pleased with the slimly designed Metric machines painted black to blend in with the landscape of their most spectacular locations.
“To my knowledge these machines are the only ones of their kind to be located in such stunning scenery anywhere in the UK,” said Alan Grimley, Metric Parking’s representative for North Wales.
Alan, who took the order for the nine Auras within the Snowdonia National Park, added: “I was most excited because to me this part of the country is idyllic.”
Gwynedd Council say an integrated transport project in northern Snowdonia, set up to encourage more visitors to park and use the bus, was also working well.
The Snowdon Sherpa bus network provides a half hourly service from Llanberis to Pen-y-Pass starting at 8 in the morning and continuing until 6.40 in the evening. Some of the buses are equipped to carry bikes.
The council spokesperson said the revenue from the parking machines helped to subside the bus network which was one of the longest running rural bus services in Britain that operated all the year round.
For a £1 fare visitors can catch an open top bus up the scenic Llanberis Pass.
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DSB (Danish State Railways) opts for TVMs from Hoeft & Wessel
Published: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:28:14 GMT
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Hanover/Germany, 26/08/2010. Following a Europe-wide invitation for tenders, DSB (Danske Statsbaner (Danish State Railways)) has again opted for Hoeft & Wessel’ stationary ticket vending machines (TVM). The Almex business division of the German IT and Engineering Group for ticketing, parking and mobile solutions will be supplying a total of 118 almex.station TVM’s and installing them at railway stations in Denmark. DSB previously bought TVM’s from Hoeft & Wessel in 2004. Together with the new order, a total of around 300 stationary TVM’s will be in operation at DSB.
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Metric & Almex at fair TranspoQuip Latin America 2010
Published: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:35:04 GMT
The Hoeft & Wessel Group strengthens its activities for
the South America market, especially Brazil and Argentina. The IT and engineering Group’s Almex and Metric business divisions will present their solutions at TranspoQuip Latin America 2010 in the Expo Center Norte - São Paulo, Brazil, on 10-12 November 2010.
Ticketing and parking solutions will be shown in a joint environment. All solutions are proven and ruggedized, yet support state of the art technologies like e-ticketing and electronic cash payment.
The Group’s business activities are being coordinated in São Paulo, Brazil, by their Regional Manager, Germano Ramlow. ”Public transport via buses, trains and subways is growing in importance in cities in Brazil and Argentina. At the same time efficient operations for controlling parking are increasingly being sought. This is a very interesting environment for Almex ticketing systems and Metric “Pay and Display” parking systems. In the last few months I have noticed strong interest in proven technology engineered in Europe.
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Hoeft & Wessel successful with ticketing systems in Spain
Published: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:02:45 GMT
Zaragoza and Murcia opt for e-ticketing system from Hoeft & Wessel and Ikusi
In recent years, Spain and Portugal have become
increasingly important markets for Hoeft & Wessel. Its Almex ticketing systems are now well known in the public transport sector. More than 2,000 buses in Spain and Portugal use the latest generation of Almex ticketing equipment. Onboard units for buses are in use in the Spanish cities of Valencia, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Reus and Tarragona. The stations on the tram system in Vitoria are equipped with almex.station ticket vending machines, which were also delivered in cooperation with Ikusi. The reason for this success is a network of local partners who cooperate and combine their skills based on Almex proven and rugged ticketing solutions.
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