Nicolas Industries SAS is a specialist trailer manufacturer founded in 1855in ? France. The company is now part of the German Tii Group since 1994 along with Scheuerle
History[]
(from Nicolas web site)
- 1855 - Founding of the company Nicolas constructs agricultural trailers
- 1969 - New headquarters established in Champs-sur-Yonne, France
- 1969 - Start of development of modular vehicles for heavy handling applications
- 1974 - NICOLAS is awarded an Export Oscar
- 1989 - Development of the HYSPEC self-propelled modular transport system with electronic steering
- 1994 - NICOLAS develops 3 special vehicles for the European Space Agency’s ARIANE V rocket program
- 1994 - Tii Group of industrialist Otto Rettenmaier from Heilbronn, Germany acquires NICOLAS
- 2000 - Production of trailers, semi-trailers and self-propelled vehicles for transport of Airbus A380 aeroplane sections
- 2002 - Development of Nicolas MHD and Nicolas MDED modular vehicle families (Self Propelled Modular Transporters
- 2004 - Development of new DOLLYNECK semi-trailers for transportation of Public Works equipment
- 2005 - World record! NICOLAS produces the biggest road tractor in the world: the Nicolas Tractomas 10X10 [[heavy haulage tractor.
- 2008 - Development of the heavy modular MHD-E vehicle with electronic steering
Products[]
- Nicolas modular trailers
- Girder trailers
- Low loader/Lowboy (trailer)
- SPMT units
- Wind turbine transporters
- Nicolas Tractomas Ultra heavy haulage tractor units
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