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Tuesday 22nd December 2009

Bent and Twisted

Recently an ETT Sprinter ambulance came unstuck on the Lakes Way
near Forster on the NSW mid North Coast. Reportedly the vehicle
rolled at least 3 times - (accident investigation is yet to confirm details).

Everyone on board survived and as you can see the fit out components
took the beating remarkably well. .

Once again all that ETT 20G testing proves it's value.

 

 

 

 
Tuesday 22nd December 2009

Tall and Proud

ASNSW has just commissioned five new 4x4 Sprinter 315s on the road.

They're tall and proud and a real step up in drivability compared
to the earlier models. ETT has emploed a bunch of new inititiaves
in construction materials to reduce overall weight on board to
accommodate the reduced carrying capacity of the base vehicle.

Thursday 10 December 2009

Box Bodies are Back

Following in the wake of the highly successful bariatric box body ambulance, comes a raft of other box body designs for other ambulance applications. All use ETT's weight saving materials and designs.

The Nissan Patrol 4 x 6 was developed for Ambulance Service NSW as
a possible replacement for the Toyota Troopie and has been on the road
now for a few months. It has been well received offering, as it does, a
larger work platform than the Troopie ambulance.

4x4 variants of the same concept were also developed for BHP Billiton
and these vehicles are now in service and have had a good reception
on the mine sites in north WA.

Next in line is the box body to suit a Toyota Land cruiser cab chassis
and the Mercedes Sprinter cab chassis. Watch this space.

Thursday 10th December 2009

USAR

Recently, Ambulance Victoria had concerns over the proposed urban search and rescue vehicle, regarding the proposed payload and overloading the vehicle. AV commissioned ETT's engineering dept to run the figures via our computer modeling to show where the load would have to be positioned, how it could be stowed and what retention system would be needed to hold everything to 20G (the cargo barrier just didn't cut it...!)  Via our sophisticated computer modeling and finite element analysis were able to provide a full report on how it all could be done. A good result all round and far better than getting to the end of a build to discover the vehicle was illegal and unusable.

 
Thursday 10th December 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen - Introducing ERM

Emergency Resource Management (ERM) is the newly formed IT and electrical engineering arm of the Byron Group that is developing all the latest touch screen computer based switching technology being implemented into ETT vehicles.
The latest development from ERM, following consumer feedback is a can bus system that combines traditional "tactile" switching with touch screen information interfaces - some say the best of both worlds - traditional switches for emergency equipment operations such as lights and siren and touch screens for everything else.
It's a marriage of convenience perhaps, but as an adjunct to the full touch screen systems in so many ETT vehicles today, it's proving a very acceptable option. Still available to services is the ability to add modules for all sorts of data transfer - everything from GPS mapping linked to dispatch right through to patient data transfer.

Thursday 10th December 2009

Brisbane Factory Opening

The official opening of the ETT Brisbane factory, by the honorable Mr Neil Roberts, took place on Wednesday December 2nd.
Representatives from South Australian Ambulance Service and  ACT Ambulance Service were joined by guests from Melbourne, NSW and the Queensland Ambulance Service for the big event. Mr Roberts took great interest in work being done at the Banyo factory, ETT in general and asked many questions about the future of ambulance vehicles and what's in store.

Image Supplied by Star Newspaper (Brisbane) - Bayside & Northern Suburbs

Thursday 10th December 2009

ETT's New Melbourne Factory

ETT Melbourne is due to move to its new factory in January 2010. in line with what has happened in Brisbane, this is the result of the continuous growth for ETT in Victoria. The factory is a brand new facility of over 22,000 square meters and we just know it won't be long before it's working to capacity too.
The new address will be 66 Allied Drive, Tullamarine.

Thursday 10th December 2009

ETT's New GM Makes a Big Difference

During 2009 ETT employed the services of a new General Manager, Mr Leigh O'Brien, who came to us with a wealth of experience in the emergency vehicle manufacturing sector.
Leigh will be well known to many of you for his role in a rival company and his move to ETT was a big move to say the least.
Since his arrival, the changes have been considerable and extremely positive with serious improvements in production output, quality control and production systems.

Thursday 10th December 2009

ISO 9000

ETT is currently changing it's quality control system over to ISO 9002 from the CASA coverage previously employed.
The quality levels and demands are similar but what it has heralded is a full review of quality systems, procedures and paperwork. It has been a timely review that highlighted a few shortcomings that have now been addressed. The new system will also include a constant review process that is designed to keep up with the rapid and continuous growth of the company.

Thursday 10th December 2009

Group Hug

The Byron Group (of which ETT is a part) had it's inaugural Group Manager's meeting in November. This is the first of regular, potential bi-annual, meetings where the intent is to share ideas, problems and solutions as a "think tank" that can only benefit all customers of the group.

Thursday 10th December 2009

Bariatric - BIG BIG NEWS

ETT's new concept bariatric ambulances featuring the DHS Power Lift Stretcher (PLS600) and integrated automatic loading device, is the talk of Australia. Pioneered with Ambulance Service NSW and fine tuned with ACT Ambulance Service and Queensland Ambulance Service, it is now also being adopted by St John Western Australia, South Australian Ambulance Service and Tasmanian Ambulance Service with St John Northern Territory showing a lot of interest.

Thursday 10th December 2009

ASNSW Photo Shoot

ETT commissioned freelance photographer Alex Kesselaar to do a photo shoot recently for ASNSW, with the emphasis on movement, and the results were spectacular.
Kathryn  Foley, ASNSW Manager of Corporate Image, was over the moon with the results.
"These are exactly what I was looking for", she said, following the initial viewing.
Expect to see Alex's photos turn up on the ASNSW website, on line publications, print material and on a few office Ambulance Service office walls.

Here are just a few of the shots and if you'd like to see more of Alex's work in general simply go to www.alexkess.com

Thursday 10th December 2009

Super Subies for QAS

The Emergency Response Vehicle based on the Subaru is proving a winner for QAS. See here the latest version by ETT, Looks good, goes well, nice green footprint and the ETT fit out matches the style beautifully.

Thursday 10th December2009

St John NSW at sydney UNI Open Day

At the Sydney Uni Open Day, St John had one of their ETT converted Transits and the ETT Club Car quick response units ready for action

Thursday 10th December2009

China Calling

A recent visit by the Chinese delegation were amazed at the level of production and variety of work being undertaken at ETT Sydney. Pictured here with their esteemed tour guide, ETT marketing manager, Tony Nelson