I realised today that I hadn't seen their lorries for ages. Did some Googling and found they are now XPO Logistics. Sad - I liked that name.
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Norbert Dentressangle
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Always used to make me chuckle. Memorable, too.
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I was amused how long it took Jim'll mix it cement company took to rename themselves. It a shame clueless fuckwits were the reason.
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On a related note, SWMBO read something about Eddie Stobart being on the rocks recently ?
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Some trucks used to be Christian Salvesen, who for some reason had a generator hire company, called Aggreko, which is now a standalone company, still based in Glasgow, I think.
I think an array of big blue containers were all clustered together at the Olympic Park during London2012 to supply backup power, should it be needed. These were Aggreko.
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Moi aussi
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Counting Norberts was something we did to while away a motorway or autoroute journey. The XPO trucks are nowhere near as noticeable.
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Christian Salveson used originally to operate a whaling fleet. They diversified. The haulage company was bought by Norbert Dentrissagle in
2007.The large numbers of penguins at Edinburgh Zoo is a as a resultb of the whaling crews taking penguins as pets on their travels and not being able to keep them when they got home.
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Sort of French equivalent to Eddie Stobart. I always managed to forget how to pronounce the 'memorable' name within a minute of seeing one.
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Seems to be since it became Deaddie Stobart.
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I used to count the number of times father said "bloody".
Owain
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Yes, we were always seeing 'Norberts' going along the M2. I hadn't noticed they'd disappeared!
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Probably found nobody could remember it. Brian
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They seem to use white or grey now and it used to be orange with a brown base back in the '90s.
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My little car's been through the mangle It was bashed by Dentressangle
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The wing mirror's now a missing part It got sideswiped by E. Stobart
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Oddly enough, I was just thinking recently that I hadn't seen their lorries recently. I have seen Dentressangle occasionally referred to as Deathstrangle.
Christian Salvesen, despite the name, were a Scottish company based in Leith. I remember my dad telling me that and not quite believing him.
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I always liked the late Terry Wogan's name for them - Norbert Disentangle.
Richard
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As an aside, can anyone positively confirm the 'Stobart' is pronounced 'Stobbart', and not 'Stowbart'? A couple of years ago, I'm pretty sure that I heard one of the family on the radio, and he said it was 'Stobbart'. But despite this, in a TV documentary about them everyone consistently said 'Stowbart'.
As a second aside, how should you pronounce 'Dentressangle'?