Berkshire racecourse undergoes re-furbishment

Wedge Company Humber Galvanizing win contract to galvanize crowd control barriers at Royal Ascot race meeting staged at York Racecourse.

With the traditional 300-year-old Royal Ascot race meeting staged this year at York Racecourse - while the Berkshire course undergoes re-furbishment - Wedge Company Humber Galvanizing got its nose well in front of its competitors by winning a contract to galvanize crowd control barriers for the unique event held on 14th-18th June 2005.

Humber Galvanizing, of Citadel Trading Park in Hull, was contracted by York-based fabricators, Minster Engineering , to galvanize seven specially-commissioned safety barriers, which were then installed on terraces in the racecourse's Old Silver Ring Stand in time for the meeting.

Each of the barriers - similar to barriers used on football stadium terraces - measures 4.6m x 1.1m.

Humber Galvanizing's Tony Linsley said the galvanizing operation was carried out in partnership with another company within the UK-wide Wedge Group, Pillar-Wedge , of Heywood, Lancashire: "The barriers are constructed from 114mm tubular steel and are part of the extra safety and crowd control measures which are necessary for this event".

"Thousands of people travelled to York for the Royal Ascot race meeting and the course has been substantially upgraded." He said that the permanent barriers, which totalled approximately 2.5 tonnes of steel, would remain fixed in position in the grandstand after the race meeting.

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