This may get moderated, the spelling was correct but the funniest signwriting and presumably company name i ever saw was on a removals type truck in huge letters...
''Humpers..we hump anything anytime''
|
Piking up poeple on there speeling is a hobit of mine and is rather annoys the family, but hey! as you no I am that kinder guy.
BUT......(never start a sentence with BUT I was told) several years ago a Local idiot, I can only guess had a Honda Acty Pick up and in stick on letters from WH. Somebody or similar he had produced, Building Contractor on one side and Building Contactor on the other. All spaced correctly so it hadn't just fallen off. I laughed so much I thought my trousers would never dry!
Another Abbot Ale please Wife..............Ok I'll get it..............Best reg's.MD
|
A firm In BarnstaPle North Devon had all their vehicles liveried with BarnstaBle. That's the carp British for you with an American Spell checker in their hands. Makes I larf u know.
MD
|
Ambulances with "Please keep x Meters clear on their rear doors..............Gas or 'lectric Guv??
MD
|
|
|
seen many years ago.....
should have been 'fast parts delivery'
the f & p had been swapped................
|
|
|
|
|
|
Just remembered, a local skip company has "Call us, we talk rubbish" on their skip lorries.
|
Some local wag worked out a while ago that the 'EMERGENCY EXIT' decals on the local buses could be easily modified to read 'VIRGIN EXIT' with careful removal of selected parts of the letters.....
|
|
All the police, fire and ambulance signs on the front of the vehicles in my area are back to front :)
|
'This door is alarmed'
I've always wanted to put on the next one 'this door is startled!'
|
I can remember one contracters van, I can't remember which trade it was but it said on the side of the vehicle "QUALITY ERECTIONS".
I almost wet myself!
|
I remember a local greengrocers...when they used to write details of their prices on the window glass in white.
He must have got confused trying to write on the inside of the glass as he was trying to sell his stock of ..rhudarb.. to his punters outside.
Motoring link ? they used to use a Ford model T lorry well into the 70s !
Ted
|
|
Our local builder has "before" and "after" cartoons on his van above the company name, with the "before" being a spic and span cartoon house and the "after' being a pile of rubble. Great sense of humour. ;-)
|
An example of quality decal but poor placement.
Addison Lee previous fleet of vans was not a problem
I read a report that they now have Ford People movers and their logo on the back window has been affected / compromised.
I was following one on the A40 this evening and they are correct.
Their logo is
cityguideoflondon.com/cms/images/staff_pictures/ad...f
The rear wiper wiper blade pivot is just to the right of the N and the blade parked on the right neatly splices the "ee" .
This wiper bladed at rest configuration transforms, to most eyes, the "ee" into "oo" .
|
When the tube was extended to Heathrow a number of new stations were built, including Osterley.
On the map inside a carriage someone added a 'P' at the start and 'for Christmas' at the end.
|
"When the tube was extended to Heathrow a number of new stations were built, including Osterley"
Osterley was around long before Heathrow ever existed.
|
|
"All the police, fire and ambulance signs on the front of the vehicles in my area are back to front :)"
POTS ECILOP
Edited by Fullchat on 12/05/2009 at 21:51
|
|
|
|
|
Just remembered a local skip company has "Call us we talk rubbish" on their skip lorries.
talking of skip companies, we have a local one in leicester by the name of t watts , its on all the sides of their skips and wagons ( google it if think im just after a cheap gag)
|
|
|
|
|
