Agecare and Mobility

Sunrise Factory Visit- 18^th
and 19^th July – Terence Clark, Paul McGee and Ben Acty 

We really enjoyed our visit to the Sunrise Factory in Stourbridge, in the West Midlands, Sunrise are the manufacturer of the Quickie range of manual and powered wheelchairs.

The Quickie range goes from something fairly basic to really top end stuff with all the extras and quality to match. We’ve worked with Sunrise for more than 20 years so our companies have a great relationship.  

Chris Taylor their Quickie Manual chair specialist was with us all day Wednesday and Steve Ruffle the Quickie and Groove Powered specialist was with all day Thursday.  

The new Quickie Groove from Sunrise is a great product combining the motorcar technology of Delphi with the wheelchair knowledge and experience of Sunrise, this has created a product that is genuinely groundbreaking. 

The facilities at Sunrise are impressive too; above is a short video of us trying out the Groove on their test facility.

We now hold regular roadshows throughout the region, where we have a range of products to view and purchase.

Many of these are held at community centres, sheltered accommodation, leisure centres, disabled living centres, residential homes and country fairs.

It allows clients the opportunity to see and try goods before they buy them and obtain free advice from our advisors, along with a free mail order catalogue. If you would like to arrange a roadshow please contact Trina on 0114 229 3388

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I’m pleased to report Clark and Partners are now part of The European Pressure Care Group, the group made up of companies specialising in pressure and wound care is made up of several members situated throughout Europe.

We are looking at several areas to increase the level of support we can supply to our customers, including introducing new and innovative products. As always we ready to offer help and support to our customers including rentals of therapies and training for staff.

As part of our commitment to provide mobility solutions for all, we are supplying an increasing amount of wheelchairs to children; one of these is the Hippo by Moving People.Net.

The Hippo is a powered wheelchair suitable for use indoor and outdoor, it’s an exciting wheelchair as it is made specifically with paediatrics in mind and therefore it answers the unique needs of children It is small and compact and is powered through the front wheels making it highly manoeuvrable meaning that in many cases it gives the chance to integrate with friends and function independently.

What’s really good about the Hippo is its standard features. Children needing a powered wheelchair chair often require powered tilt and most importantly powered high low facility, both of which are available as options along with powered backrest, and powered leg rests.

Having a high/low facility is always important on any powered wheelchair but on a paediatric chair its even more important, as these chairs are already smaller it is even harder for the child to get eye contact with those they are trying to interact with or reach shelves or high objects. Fitting this as standard ensures the chair is more functional and makes it highly practical.

We have a chair available for trial and home demonstration. Email bacty@clarkandpartners.co.uk to arrange one.

Kuschall Factory Visit

Last week Clark and Partners in the form of Ben, Andy and I went to Basle in Switzerland to visit the factory where Kuschall lightweight wheelchairs are manufactured. This is a new factory for Kuschall, we have visited the old factory several years ago but there is no comparison in terms of facilities and size.

This trip was linked to the launch of their new R33 which I wrote about earlier, while we were there we were able to see the production line and actually found our demonstration chair which we have on order and should be with us in late February or early March.

Clark and Partners are a large supplier of wheelchairs in the UK and one of Kuschalls largest dealers. As such the intention of the trip was to launch the R33 to them and show the improvements that had been made to the research and development of the products as well as the testing procedures new wheelchairs go through.

The pictures show the three of us standing with two R33’s, there is a picture of our partially built demonstration chair and lastly at the top of the page is a 10 second video of a Kuschall R33 on a rolling road test.

Terence

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The R33 is a brand new concept chair designed and manufactured by Kuschall of Switzerland, it is designed with the same performance and innovation linked with all the Kuschall range. All the range are well known for been stylish and standing out from the crowd but the R33 is this and some more.

Kuschall state that they have clearly identified its market as independant trendsetters and explorers, wheelchair users who are innovative and want to push their boundaries. It certainly has a very powerful design to give high performance and it leaves a powerful impression.

Technologically speaking it has a state of the art advanced shock absorber which creates a truly unique damping effect for the user and it has an aluminium carbon and titanium frame which keeps it lightweight, responsive and highly manuverable.

There is a website devoted to the product, take a look at it, here

It is possible to place an advance order and to be one of the first in UK to own one simply contact bacty@clarkandpartners.co.uk, to place your order.

However if you just want to look and to be one of the first in the UK to drive an R33 contact bacty@clarkandpartners.co.uk to book in, everyone booking an advanced demonstration is being entered into a draw to win a Kuschall watch worth 170.00.

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Many of our range of stairlifts are UK built, we offer stairlifts to suit straight and curved stairs.

Other features include a stylish slimline rail, and a wall mounted or hand held control, ensuring the lift is always where you need it to be.

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Dear Customer

Thank-you for signing up for membership to the Clark and Partners website, we wanted to take the opportunity to write to you to wish you a Happy Christmas and of course a happy and successful new year.

As we supply a very diverse nature of products your interest in ourselves may be on, wheelchairs, scooters, stairlifts or something completely different.

If you are one of our wheelchair customers one of the most exciting recent developments is the new Kuschall R33, this is a lightweight manual wheelchair designed to marry the often opposing aims of style and clinical performance. We have a pre-launch chair on order and were happy to take bookings for demonstrations from February 2007. We will even take orders making sure you will be among the first in the UK to have one of these thrilling new chairs.

The new Groove from Sunrise is another wheelchair that is worth a second look, an all new design concept for powered wheelchairs blending lifestyle options with the very latest technology. We have front, mid and rear wheel options available for you to try.

For stairlifts we are continuing to supply the new Minivator Simplicity lift, with a very attractive price tag of £1595.00 (and fitted free) its very flexible and reliable and will fit the majority of straight lift situations.

Please give Collette a call on 01142293388 or contact us on sales@clarkandpartners.co.uk and we will help in any way we can.

Best regards

Terence