U.K.-based access specialist Access Platform Sales has acquired the assets and business of Huntingdon-based access rental company Height for Hire, vertikal.net has reported. The agreement follows the retirement of Malcolm Brown of Height for Hire after 32 years in the aerial rental business. APS, also based in Huntingdon, will merge its rental operation in Scotland with that of HFH, while adding to the two fleets in order to balance the product range each company offers.

Height for Hire, which is not connected with the Irish-based company with the same name, has a fleet of truck- and van-mounted lifts along with some smaller booms and scissors, while APS Scotland runs a fleet of about 70 truck-mounted aerial lifts and push-around lifts.