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Seating and restraints

Our seating solutions simplify the challenge of carrying passengers with mixed mobility.

Wheelchair tie-downs, restraints and seating built around real passenger needs

Carrying passengers with mixed mobility needs is rarely just about the seat itself. It is about how the whole vehicle works together — the access point, the transfer space, the layout, the restraints, the carer position, and the ability to reconfigure all of it when the people you carry change.

Everything starts with your passengers. Their needs define the scope: how many wheelchair users travel on your busiest day, whether they use powered or manual chairs (a powered chair plus occupant can exceed 250 kg), how many seated passengers ride alongside them, how often a carer travels with each passenger, and whether you need the layout to flex between configurations week to week. Once that picture is clear, the build follows.

That is where Auto Transform comes in. Since 1990 we have been specifying mobility fitouts for community trusts,  retirement communities, schools, healthcare providers, tourism operators and families across New Zealand. We supply the wheelchair tie-downs and occupant restraint(WTORS) rated for your actual chair weights, the track-mounted seats that fold away or remove entirely when a wheelchair takes their place, and the floor structure engineered to make all of it certifiable to AS/NZS 10542. Every element is matched to your specific needs, not pulled from a standard catalogue.

Layouts for mixed mobility needs

The right layout depends on who you carry  and how that changes day to day.

  • Standard passenger layouts — for organisations primarily carrying ambulant passengers, with seating positioned to make boarding and transfers as easy as possible.
  • Wheelchair-and-passenger layouts — combined configurations that bring seated passengers and one or more wheelchair positions into the same vehicle, with full WTORS (wheelchair tie-down and occupant restraint systems) compliance.
  • Removable and folding seat layouts — flexible configurations that allow operators to convert between full seated capacity and wheelchair space depending on the day’s passengers.
  • Carer and attendant seating — dedicated positions for support staff, placed where they can assist passengers most effectively during the journey.
Mobility fitout side swivel seats and wheelchair restraints

Wheelchair tie-downs and occupant restraints

WTORS — wheelchair tie-down and occupant restraint systems, secure both the chair and the person in it. We supply complete, crash-tested systems as standard.

  • Four-point chair tie-downs rated for powered and manual chairs
  • Lap-and-shoulder occupant restraints that meet AS/NZS 10542
  • Engineered floor anchorages built into the vehicle structure
  • Documentation supplied at handover for CoF and re-certification
Wheelchair restraints on the mobility esprinter

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