Elphinstone Engineering

Elphinstone Engineering is an Australian company which manufactures specialised trailers for the transport industry and equipment for weighing trucks, including on-board scales that weigh the load. It focuses particularly on support for forestry. It has facilities at Triabunna in Tasmania and Sunshine West in Victoria. The company was founded by Graeme Elphinstone in 1976.[1] Graeme Elphinstone's brother Dale owns a similarly-named company based in Burnie.[2]

Elphinstone Engineering
Industrytransport engineering
Founded1976 (1976)
FounderGraeme Elphinstone
Headquarters
Triabunna
,
Australia
Key people
Graeme Elphinstone, Grant Elphinstone
Productstruck weighing systems, specialised trailers
Websitewww.elph.com.au

Elphinstone produces skeleton trailers and B-doubles for the timber industry that fold up for easier transport when empty, and that can weigh the load.[3]

On 14 December 2020 it was announced that Elphinstone Engineering is now part of the new Bustech Group.[4]

References
  1. "About Us". Elphinstone Australia. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  2. "Brothers in arms". Australian Forests and Timber. 1 February 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
  3. "Timber Aweight!". Power Torque. Motoring Matters Magazine Group. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  4. ‘BUSTECH GROUP’ ANNOUNCED; AUST BUS CORP REBRANDED Australasian Bus & Coach 14 December 2020
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