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Andrew wrote:
On 21/11/2019 13:38, John wrote:
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.


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.


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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