Baldwins

Passed one of these the other day, somewhere near Vauxhall Cross. Don't recall seeing such a thing before, particularly the stabilising cross trees, for all the world like an over-sailed dingy, but in any case very impressive for a lorry mounted mobile crane.

Turning to http://www.baldwinscranehire.co.uk/, I find that cranes like this are an important part of the Baldwin fleet, or at least in the handsome publicity pictures they take of it. Mainly, if not entirely, engineered by a company headquartered at Biberach an der Riss, near the Ulm of battle fame. They also make domestic appliances. But the crane could be yours for perhaps £10,000 a day?