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Crate rental company Pluscrates had a rather unusual client recently - a 200 million year-old dinosaur named Edmontaurus! Grace Kimble, a member of the Learning Team at the Natural History Museum in London, needed to transport some of the dinosaur's fragile bones for a special exhibition at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival in Dorset, and required some very large crates to house them for the journey.
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"Our usual suppliers didn't have crates big enough to accommodate Edmontaurus, and I was looking for an alternative. I spotted one of Pluscrates' vans while I was cycling to work down the Harrow Road and gave them a call," said Grace. "Although they were a bit surprised when I told them I needed them for dinosaur bones, they had just what I wanted."
Safely stored in several of Pluscrates L6C removals crates, Edmontaurus arrived on Dorset's Jurassic Coast, none the worse for his journey from London and ready to meet the public.
More than 12,000 people, many of them children, visited the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival over the weekend of 29 April/1 May, and with the help of scientists from the Natural History Museum and other organisations, had the chance to get up close and even touch the fossilised remains of giant beasts that roamed the Earth so long ago. Lyme Regis is an important site for paleontological study, and staff from the museum visit the festival annually.
The crates will now be used long term for a school workshop 'Dino Scene Investigation' which has been developed to support the summer blockbuster exhibition - Age of the Dinosaur.
"It was certainly an unusual request, but we were pleased to be able to help," said Pluscrate's Managing Director John Mitchell. "It just shows how important it is to have sign-written vans!"
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