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Amusing company names

Posted by Stuart <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Stuart' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 8:24 am

how do i get a url for my picture

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Posted by laverdabru <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=laverdabru' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 8:35 am, in reply to "Amusing company names"

A while ago, was in traffic behind a tank emptier. Not often I'm amused by number plates, but this one was POO 2.

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Posted by BigBaz <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=BigBaz' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 8:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Amusing company names"

Similarly the other day near Southampton I was following a septic tank gulley sucker with the reg PO 7ANK. Thought it quite appropriate.

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Posted by Andy C <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Andy+C' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 10:08 am, in reply to "Amusing company names"

A couple spring to mind:

Local company - Cock and Sons

https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/company/Cock-amp%3B-Sons/54682

John Wallis Titt & Co

https://www.businessmagnet.co.uk/company/johnwallistittcoltd-104091.htm

Who needs a signature anyway......

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Posted by Brickboy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Brickboy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 11:27 am, in reply to "Re: Amusing company names"

I grew up in Basingstoke where Lansing Bagnall were a premier fork lift truck manufacturer. I think they were badly undermined by Climax fork lift trucks simply because it was a much more memorable name and probably much more fun to drive one with Climax in big letters on the side!

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Posted by ChazzyB <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=ChazzyB' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 12:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Amusing company names"

Coventry Climax. Also made the Hillman Imp engine.

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Posted by CrazyFrog <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=CrazyFrog' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 12:02 pm, in reply to "Amusing company names"

One of the early runners in scenic model railways was John Ahern. His Madder Valley layout still exists at the Pendon museum in Oxfordshire. All of the businesses in the model village surrounding the railway had amusing names. The only ones I can remember are 'Quibble and Cuss' solicitors and Bodgit and Scarper builders.

On a slightly different note, back in the early 80's one of the places I had to visit when I was repairing computers was Firkins Bakery in West Bromwich. The M.D. was called Mr Bunn...

You don't have to be crazy to post here, but it helps....

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Posted by Stuart <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Stuart' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 12:56 pm, in reply to "Re: Amusing company names"

>Madder Valley
>scenic model railway
>All of the businesses in the model village surrounding the railway had amusing names
>'Quibble and Cuss' solicitors

There's a real Wright Hassall solicitors in Warwick ...

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You don't have to be crazy to post here, but it helps....

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In charge of behaviour at one school I was at was Mrs Tantrum.

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You don't have to be crazy to post here, but it helps....

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Posted by Beezabryan <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Beezabryan' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 12:10 pm, in reply to "Amusing company names"

BeezaBryan

He knows not where he's going, For the ocean will decide,
Its not the destination, It's the glory of the ride (Edward Monkton, Zen Dog)

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Wayne Kerr - that used to raise a giggle back when I was an apprentice https://www.waynekerrtest.com/ suppliers of electrical Test Gear.

Who needs a signature anyway......

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Posted by geoff the bonnie <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=geoff+the+bonnie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 1:26 pm, in reply to "Re: Amusing company names"

Always a good trick to ask at a supermarket if they could ask where Mike Hunt is. Has anyone seen My kunt

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Posted by jimmy <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=jimmy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 1:52 pm, in reply to "Re: Amusing company names"

A chinese take away in Uddingston

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Posted by Will <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=Will' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 2:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Amusing company names"

Carry out? It ought to be Shat out

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Posted by pete__s <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/classicbikemart/info/user=pete__s' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 21, 2024, 2:25 pm, in reply to "Amusing company names"

At wok I used to deal with a company called
"The Nu Design Team" web site was nudesignteam.com (they changed it now I see to ndt-inc.com).

Of course, to us, they were the Nude Sign Team.

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