I'd have to hunt that ARN up, but the interviews and the trials reports stated that it was winch-lowered and winch-raised, as I state in some detail in Mud and Dust pages 231-232. The Steco prototype, along with the one of the trials Contractors, was sent to SVN because of the shortage of low loader transport. To help relieve that problem, one phase of the user trials for both 'vehicles' took place in SVN, rather than in Australia.
Mike
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