The Eddie Stobart Story. Hunter Davies

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СКАЧАТЬ G Top Haulage Firms: 2000

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

ILLUSTRATIONS

       Section One

       1 John Stobart’s wedding

       2 Young Eddie Stobart with his family

       3 Caldbeck, Cumberland

       4 Eddie and Nora’s wedding

       5 Edward, Anne and John

       6 Edward at primary school

       7 Edward, Anne, William and John

       8 The family: (sitting, left to right) William, Nora, Eddie, Anne (standing) Edward and John

       9 The farm shop at Wigton

       10 Eddie Stobart Ltd at the Cumberland show in the early Seventies

       11 An early Scania lorry, drives through Hesket

       12 Freshly washed lorries at Greystone Road

       13 Edward with drivers Bob McKinnel and Neville Jackson

       14 Edward at Greystone Road

       15 The new Kingstown site, bought in 1980

       16 William and Edward in the early Kingstown days

       17 Edward’s wedding to Sylvia, in 1980

       18 William with his truck

       19 The first Stobart vehicle in Metal Box livery – 1987 (left to right) Colin Rutherford, Stuart Allan, Edward

       Section Two

       1 The Wurzels performing ‘I Want to be an Eddie Stobart Driver’

       2 The Blackpool illuminations, featuring Eddie Stobart Ltd – 1995

       3 Charity panto event

       4 Eddie Stobart trucks setting off for Romania

       5 The Kingstown depot

       6 Princess Anne and Edward, at the opening of the Daventry site

       7 The huge Daventry depot today

       8 The beginning of 25-anniversary celebrations at the Dorchester

       9 Edward celebrating with Jools Holland

       10 Celebrating with the truck Twiggy

       11 Barrie Thomas

       12 David Jackson

       13 Colin Rutherford

       14 Norman Bell’s retirement in 1990

       15 Linda Shore in the fan club shop

       16 Truck driver Billy Dowell

       17 Carlisle United Football Club – 1997

       18 William today

       19 Edward and Nora today

       20 Edward with William Hague

       21 Edward receiving the ‘Haulier of the Year’ award

       22 Edward with Deborah Rodgers

INTRODUCTION

      Edward Stobart is Cumbria’s greatest living Cumbrian. Not a great deal of competition, you might think, as Cumbria is a rural county, with only twenty settlements with a population greater than 2500. But our native sons do include Lord Bragg.

      I used to say the greatest living Cumbrian was Alfred Wainwright, though he was a newcomer, who assumed Cumbrian nationality when he fell in love with Lakeland and then moved to Kendal. Wainwright, like Eddie Stobart, became a cult, acquiring an enormous following without ever really trying. In fact Wainwright discouraged fans, refusing to speak to other walkers when he met them, not allowing his photograph to appear on his guide books, never doing signing sessions. Yet he went on to sell millions of copies of his books.

      Edward Stobart, the hero of this book, not to be confused with his father, Eddie Stobart, still lives in Cumbria and the world HQ of Eddie Stobart Limited СКАЧАТЬ