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Barton Civils located at Burton Latimer near Kettering and part of The Bennie Group, continues with a long tradition of favouring Volvo Construction Equipment products with the addition of four recently delivered compact excavators, supplied by Volvo’s utility equipment dealer SM Plant Ltd.


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One of the new Volvo ECR88Ds at work on a typ


Opting for Volvo was a fairly straight forward decision for Barton Civils Managing Director Barry Page. “My personal preference has always been for the Volvo brand ever since I first hired, then subsequently purchased, a Volvo EC140 under the Premier Ground- works banner. The machine had an impressive build quality and robustness and performed very well,” he says. “Similarly, The Bennie Group has a long tradition of running and operating Volvo Equipment, so the decision to continue with the product made total sense.”


Now under the relatively newly re-named Barton Civils, the company has recently taken delivery of two ECR88D reduced swing compact excavators along with an ECR25D zero swing excavator and an EC27C compact excavator from SM Plant Ltd. These latest machines join a mix


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of other Volvo compact equipment along with Volvo fourteen tonne EC140 tracked excavators and an EW140 wheeled excavator — in all totalling eleven machines. “Apart from the quality of the Volvo product we have an excellent relationship with the local mobile engineer and the after-market support we receive is second to none,” continues Mr Page. All the machines are covered by a Volvo blue service agreement meaning the machines are regu- larly maintained by qualified Volvo technicians using genuine parts. “Again, buying into the service


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