Reverse engineering keeps this land train project on track.

We’ve used our very latest skills to manufacture moulded seats for a global supplier of visitor transportation.

When Severn Lamb contacted us with a requirement for visitor seating for their land trains, they had an example of the seating but nothing else. Our latest service – together with our extensive materials and manufacturing expertise – meant we were able to successfully reverse engineer the sample seat and in conjunction with our customer finalised CAD creation, to give us everything we needed to progress the project from sample to manufacturing.

Severn Lamb is a Warwickshire-based company with a worldwide reputation for the design and manufacture of light urban, leisure and resort transportation – if you haven’t been on one of their trains, your kids probably have at locations across the UK, Europe & the USA. At 60 years, they are even longer established than us.

We have previously manufactured end caps for the company and hopefully that gave them the confidence to approach us for this more substantial project. After reverse engineering their sample, our design development team and plastic prototyping skills meant we were able to develop a cost-effective solution – one mould which could be used to manufacture 2, 3 or 4 seats depending on the train’s configuration.

The mould is used to vacuum form the seating from 6mm gloss acrylic ABS. ABS’s chief properties are impact resistance and toughness – essential for busy venues and making this a sustainable option as the seats will last & last!

After being vacuum formed, the mould is then moved to on the CNC router for finishing and final configuration.

We thank the team at Severn Lamb for the opportunity to work with them on this exciting project.