Status - Specialist Transport Advisory & Testing Utility Society

the specialist transport advisory and testing utility society aims to give small manufacturers involved in all areas of specialist road transport access to low cost engineering development and test services, as well as technical & legislative advice. status was founded in 1988, following a number of collaborative efforts between the school of engineering at manchester metropolitan university and companies within the specialist vehicle field. the success of these endeavors led to its steady and sustained growth, and the society now counts around 120 companies and organisations within its membership. as a result, we now represent a broad cross section of companies involved in low volume manufacture of cars, bus & coach and commercial vehicles along with special purpose vehicles including motor caravans and wheelchair accessible vehicles as well as those manufacturing equipment and components for these vehicles. despite our rapidly expanding reach, status remains based within the mmu scho