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The Eddie Stobart Story
Hunter Davies
The world’s greatest haulier – a rags-to-riches tale of British entrepreneurialsim.If you’ve never seen an Eddie Stobart truck, you’ve never driven down a British motorway.This is the extraordinary story of a multi-million pound business that spawned a middle-class motorway game. Of dynastic struggles that ended in a merchandising shop opposite Carlisle cathedral.A quintessentially British tale – written by the inimitable bestselling writer Hunter Davies, and with the full support of Eddie Stobart himself.
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Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2016 ISBN: 9780008226503
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CONTENTS
Cover (#uf91b2ad3-b3d8-5455-91d8-93a2f8fb87e8)
Title Page (#ubbfb4397-c3ec-5e4f-b975-15cec71669d9)
Copyright (#ulink_30fe7918-104b-5c95-a444-663b91c3495d)
Illustrations (#ulink_f9fc0e02-ab5d-505d-beae-bab2ac359bcb)
Introduction (#ulink_2e023184-96ae-5238-926a-9d0fbd75d1d2)
Where it all Began … (#ulink_c7c98172-e3de-5541-acbd-2c66dc1642ff)
The Stobarts (#ulink_55a8d4c4-eb7b-5b5f-8286-f6442058621b)
Young Edward (#ulink_49eddd5d-60e6-5df6-b8ed-42e3c55fc43e)
Edward Goes to Work (#ulink_cfc42142-e1f3-57a1-b412-584b5b80d13c)
Edward Goes to Town (#ulink_93488365-16c3-53b6-a8cd-bc3b4a2f281b)
Haulage – the Long Haul (#ulink_19b7709d-a6ce-5d4b-a7c1-f442a4cc5774)
Hello Carlisle (#ulink_1cceb108-10b8-5055-9615-477acedb9d7d)
Pink Elephants (#litres_trial_promo)
A Wedding and a Warehouse (#litres_trial_promo)
Motorways Cometh (#litres_trial_promo)
Edward Faces a Dilemma (#litres_trial_promo)
The New Management Men (#litres_trial_promo)
Branching Out (#litres_trial_promo)
What Edward Did Upstairs (#litres_trial_promo)
The Birth of the Fan Club (#litres_trial_promo)
Bad-Mouthing (#litres_trial_promo)
Money Matters (#litres_trial_promo)
Daventry (#litres_trial_promo)
The Fan Club Today (#litres_trial_promo)
The Fans (#litres_trial_promo)
Spin-Offs (#litres_trial_promo)
Up the Management Men (#litres_trial_promo)
Problems, Problems (#litres_trial_promo)
Up the Workers (#litres_trial_promo)
The Firm Today – and its Future (#litres_trial_promo)
Expert Witnesses (#litres_trial_promo)
The Stobarts Today (#litres_trial_promo)
Edward Today (#litres_trial_promo)
Appendices (#litres_trial_promo)
A Haulage Glossary (#litres_trial_promo)
B The Stobarts: a Who’s Who (#litres_trial_promo)
C Eddie Stobart Limited: Chronology (#litres_trial_promo)
D Lorry Names (#litres_trial_promo)
E Eddie Stobart Fan Club (#litres_trial_promo)
F Eddie Stobart Depots (#litres_trial_promo)
G Top Haulage Firms: 2000 (#litres_trial_promo)
Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)
About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)
ILLUSTRATIONS (#ulink_d3ed6882-be2f-54af-981c-83572bdc5199)
Section One
1 John Stobart’s wedding (#litres_trial_promo)
2 Young Eddie Stobart with his family (#litres_trial_promo)
3 Caldbeck, Cumberland (#litres_trial_promo)
4 Eddie and Nora’s wedding (#litres_trial_promo)
5 Edward, Anne and John (#litres_trial_promo)
6 Edward at primary school (#litres_trial_promo)
7 Edward, Anne, William and John (#litres_trial_promo)
8 The family: (sitting, left to right) William, Nora, Eddie, Anne (standing) Edward and John (#litres_trial_promo)
9 The farm shop at Wigton (#litres_trial_promo)
10 Eddie Stobart Ltd at the Cumberland show in the early Seventies (#litres_trial_promo)
11 An early Scania lorry, drives through Hesket (#litres_trial_promo)
12 Freshly washed lorries at Greystone Road (#litres_trial_promo)
13 Edward with drivers Bob McKinnel and Neville Jackson (#litres_trial_promo)
14 Edward at Greystone Road (#litres_trial_promo)
15 The new Kingstown site, bought in 1980 (#litres_trial_promo)
16 William and Edward in the early Kingstown days (#litres_trial_promo)
17 Edward’s wedding to Sylvia, in 1980 (#litres_trial_promo)
18 William with his truck (#litres_trial_promo)
19 The first Stobart vehicle in Metal Box livery – 1987 (left to right) Colin Rutherford, Stuart Allan, Edward (#litres_trial_promo)
Section Two
1 The Wurzels performing ‘I Want to be an Eddie Stobart Driver’ (#litres_trial_promo)
2 The Blackpool illuminations, featuring Eddie Stobart Ltd – 1995 (#litres_trial_promo)
3 Charity panto event (#litres_trial_promo)
4 Eddie Stobart trucks setting off for Romania (#litres_trial_promo)
5 The Kingstown depot (#litres_trial_promo)
6 Princess Anne and Edward, at the opening of the Daventry site (#litres_trial_promo)
7 The huge Daventry depot today (#litres_trial_promo)
8 The beginning of 25-anniversary celebrations at the Dorchester (#litres_trial_promo)
9 Edward celebrating with Jools Holland (#litres_trial_promo)
10 Celebrating with the truck Twiggy (#litres_trial_promo)
11 Barrie Thomas (#litres_trial_promo)
12 David Jackson (#litres_trial_promo)
13 Colin Rutherford (#litres_trial_promo)
14 Norman Bell’s retirement in 1990 (#litres_trial_promo)
15 Linda Shore in the fan club shop (#litres_trial_promo)
16 Truck driver Billy Dowell (#litres_trial_promo)
17 Carlisle United Football Club – 1997 (#litres_trial_promo)
