"Motor City Motors" will feature one walkie reach truck, two walkie pallet trucks and two hand pallet trucks.

"Motor City Motors," a new Discovery Channel series, will feature Raymond lift trucks in episodes throughout the season. Set in Detroit, "Motor City Motors" follows two brothers as they are challenged to engineer unique custom vehicles. The cast will use Raymond lift trucks to help lift, transport and place parts and other heavy components used in building the vehicles.

Andersen and Associates, Inc., a Sales and Service Center for The Raymond Corporation, provided the show with five Raymond lift trucks, including one walkie reach truck, two walkie pallet trucks and two hand pallet trucks.

"We are pl eased that our lift trucks can play a part in a series designed to spotlight manufacturing ingenuity," said Thomas Campau Jr., dealer principal of Andersen and Associates, Inc. "Raymond supports innovation in the manufacturing world - something synonymous with the city of Detroit."

"Motor City Motors" is scheduled to premiere Dec. 28, 2009, on Discovery Channel.

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The Raymond Corporation is a global provider of material handling solutions that improve space utilization and productivity, with lower cost of operation and greater operator acceptance. Raymond offers the iWarehouse™ system, an enterprise fleet optimization solution for warehouse and distribution center managers to collect and analyze real-time lift truck data to maximize fleet productivity and reduce costs. High-performance, reliable, ergonomically designed Raymond lift trucks range from a full line of manual and electric pallet trucks and walkie stackers to counterbalanced trucks, Reach-Fork trucks, orderpickers and dual-purpose (pallet handling/case picking) Swing-Reach® trucks.