{"id":184228,"date":"2017-07-17T21:48:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T11:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=184228"},"modified":"2020-09-08T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T03:44:04","slug":"michaels-in-a-spin-with-first-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2017\/07\/17\/michaels-in-a-spin-with-first-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael’s In A Spin With First Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Magnussen with Ken Mills, from Ken Mills Toyota, Kingaroy, and the “Showing Off” Sales Spinner designed and built by Access Innovations in Kingaroy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 17, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

A South Burnett-designed marketing tool which could revolutionise car yards around the Australia has made its debut in Kingaroy.<\/p>\n

Michael Magnussen, from Access Innovations, designed the\u00a0patent-pending Sales Spinner which is now in action at Ken Mills Toyota on the Bunya Highway.<\/p>\n

The Sales Spinner is currently displaying a HiLux dual-cab ute, but is also designed to take caravans or boats up to 3.8 tonnes.<\/p>\n

The Sales Spinner comes as a complete unit and can be delivered to a car yard on the back of a truck.<\/p>\n

Once on site, it is levelled and then plugged into a power point to start working.<\/p>\n

The vehicle is loaded using built-in ramps, much like driving on to a workshop hoist, and then lifted to the desired height.<\/p>\n

Michael said the speed of the rotation can be adjusted infinitely up to two revolutions a minute; the Sales Spinner can also rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise.<\/p>\n

“This is the first one sold in Australia,” Michael said.<\/p>\n

“It seems fitting that it was a country dealer who bought it off a country manufacturer.”<\/p>\n

Access Innovations is probably best known for its award-winning grader and dozer access safety systems.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The company was a Queensland Export Awards finalist in 2016 and won the 2002 Workplace Health and Safety Premier’s Award.<\/p>\n

“We have put all our mining safety technology (into the Spinner) and it is engineer certified,” Michael said.<\/p>\n

It has four electric and one manual safety interlocks, and is rated to operate to 150km\/h winds with straps applied.<\/p>\n

Michael said dealers could add their own sales messages around the base of the unit, which includes 60 sq m of advertising space.<\/p>\n

Ken Mills said he had decided to buy the unit because it was eye-catching and no one else in town was likely to have one.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He planned to shift it between his dealerships in Kingaroy and Mundubbera.<\/p>\n

“It was really important to me that it was built locally and will be serviced locally.” he said.<\/p>\n