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Home Page >> About Us >> Products >> Rent a Locker >> How To Order >> News >> Links >> Free Pic >> Down Loads >>	Evening Herald June 2000 Bike cabinet is a winner for Jason A firm launched in Plymouth last year is seeing business really take off, having recently taken a huge order and accepting delivery of a £440,000 machine that will massively increase output. BikeAway, the revolutionary cycle parking cabinet designed and built in Plymouth, has accepted an order for 174 lockers for railway stations throughout Kent. The order was won in the teeth of stiff competition in a compulsory competitive tendering battle with two long-established firms. It marks the sale of around 500 cabinets by the local firm in its first nine months. POPULAR BikeAway was designed and launched last year by Jason Hamlyn, a Plympton entrepreneur who spotted a gap in the market and set out to produce the ultimate secure cycle parking locker, offering shelter from crime and the elements. "I never expected BikeAway to be this popular, I knew it was a good idea, but I thought convincing people of that might be a little harder," he said. Plymouth City Council bought the first 50 BikeAways for Estover Community College and the cabinets have since been snapped up by Stockport Council for railway and bus stations, Devon County Council for County Hall, a school in Enfield, Middlesex, and by Sainsbury's Supermarkets for all their stores. Enquiries are coming in daily from all over the world. The new machine at the Newnham factory allows Mr Hamlyn and his team to turn out 100 cabinets a day, compared with the current 50 a week. Mr Hamlyn said: "The work is quite labour intensive and the metals used bulky, but because of increased demand we need to be able to turn out the cabinets quicker and easier, that is what this machine will do." The Kent order will be followed by another of a similar size next year. "The Kent order vindicated our confidence in ordering the machine. BikeAway is being embraced by local authorities and rail operators throughout the country because of its innovate design and world-beating price," said Mr Hamlyn. Plymouth City Council has since bought a further 82 BikeAways for Stoke Damerel Community College - the firm's first repeat order - and the school in Enfield is expecting to order another 60. "People keep asking what the secret of our success is," said Mr Hamlyn. "But there is no secret. All we are doing is giving cyclists and local authorities what they want." Information about BikeAway is available at www.bikeaway.com Information about BikeAway is available at www.bikeaway.com
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