Rentquip’s Paul Everitt Receives Distinguished Service Award
Posted on January 11, 2012
The Canadian Rental Association has announced that national supplier director Paul Everitt is receiving the second-ever Distinguished Service Award. He will be presented with his award at the CRA Annual General Meeting, Feb. 6, at the Rental Show in in New Orleans, and at the 2012 regional trade show. Rentquip would like to extend our deepest congratulations to Paul for his achievement. We thank him for his relentless dedication to our customers, and the rental industry as a whole!
The Distinguished Service Award has been presented only once before. In awarding it to Everitt, the CRA noted that he has at all times promoted the association, and brought the board of directors valuable ideas to highlight rentals in the public and media. Everitt was instrumental in organizing the CRA’s partnership with HGTV star Bryan Baeumler, for instance.
12 Days of Christmas Promo, and Happy Holidays!
Posted on December 20, 2011
We’d like to thank all our customers for participating in our “12 Days of Christmas” promotion over the last month – it was a great success and has received much positive feedback! We are working on other new kinds of promotions like this for 2012 so stay tuned! Also, Congratulations to Bradford Rentals and Sales in Ontario for winning the iPad 2 on the last day of the contest – we hope it’s a nice surprise, just in time for the holidays.
Trade show season is just around the corner, but for now we would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and happy new year. We look forward to continuing working with you in 2012!
Thank you for your continued support throughout the year!
-The Rentquip Team
A Typical Scandinavian Rental Store…
Posted on September 28, 2011
Rentquip Richmond Moves to New Location
Posted on September 26, 2011
Rentquip’s Richmond office has moved to a new location in Richmond. Please update your records to reflect our new address:
#16 – 11191 Horseshoe Way
Richmond, BC
V7A 4S5
Phone and fax numbers remain the same.
CRS Kitchener Wins MBW Flat Screen Contest!
Posted on July 19, 2011
From April to June of 2011 Rentquip held a contest for all purchasers of MBW plate compactors in Canada. We are excited to announce that the winner of the 42″ Panasonic plasma television is the Kitchener branch of Contractor’s Rental Supply! To the left you can see Jim Freeman of Rentquip Canada presenting Jim Luft of CRS Kitchener with grand prize!
A Brief History of Milwaukee & Their Sawzall®
Posted on May 18, 2011
As World War I drew to a close, Henry Ford approached a young manufacturer named A.H. Petersen with a simple product request. Petersen had been producing tools and dies for Ford for a number of years. The request was for Petersen to produce a smaller, lighter, portable 1/4″ capacity power drill. Petersen seized the opportunity to provide Ford with the tool he was looking for, and created the Hole-Shooter. In 1924, with the intention to fully develop the sales potential of the “Hole-Shooter,” A. F. Siebert began the Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation.
Word of the new improvements quickly spread and soon, specifications for tools produced by Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation rivaled the equipment standards of the United States Government. In 1930, the company sought and achieved an acceptable equipment specification rating from the United States Government for its new portable electric drill. Before long, Navy technical standards were being applied to the manufacture of all Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation portable tools. Electric sanders, polishers, the electric hammer, and a portable hand grinder were now all manufactured according to Naval specifications.
World War II and the tremendous use of portable power tools in the armed forces marked the real turn around for the tool business and Milwaukee. Hole-Shooters were used extensively in the manufacture of airplanes and many new product ideas were developed during that period.
In 1951, Milwaukee produced an unparalleled new tool — the Sawzall® reciprocating saw. The first portable hacksaw made up of a reciprocating mechanism with only three moving parts, designed to withstand daily abuse and still provide a 3/4″ stroke ideal for sawing and roughing out. Both the Milwaukee Right-Angle Drill and the Sawzall® recip saw revolutionized the power tool industry, firmly establishing the Milwaukee tradition. Today, Milwaukee still delivers the same quality and ruggedness that they delivered so many years ago.
