Trolley 452

Captured at the top of East Street, not far short of the turning into Ewell Village. So around the tree at the triangle of grass at that turning, and then retraced my steps, picking up the trolley on the way. Made the mistake of turning into Fairview Road, very bumpy for a trolley. Compounded the mistake by not taking the ramp down to the south eastern corner of the Sainsbury's car park, rather continuing down the alley - having forgotten that the next exit was well beyond the north eastern corner.

But at least this provided the opportunity to notice and inspect the maintenance record stuck to the side of the trolley. A new-to-me record, with this one telling me that this trolley had been serviced in May of this year. First thought, they must use very serious labels and glue, for the label to survive four years in all weathers. Second thought, somebody must have worked out how to cycle through all the hundreds of trolleys at Kiln Lane. Do batches get carried off back to base?

In any event, a snap which reminds one that these trolleys are substantial bits of steel fabrication, well worth looking after.

Trolley base camp. Possibly the headquarters of the Wanzl operation in the UK. Given the proportion of the supermarket trolley market that they have, maybe it is time for the Monopolies people to swing into action. To break this dangerous (German) conglomerate into more tractable parts?

Shortly before I reached the stack outside the main entrance, the front nearside wheel locked - with the wheel lock being much less conspicuous than the ones they used to have. For example, the one snapped at reference 3. Something the May service had clearly not spotted. I left the trolley on its side, at the side, hopefully signalling to the trolley man that it needed his attention.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2021/12/trolley-451.html.

Reference 2: Wanzl Ltd, Europa House, Heathcote Lane, Warwick, CV34 6SP.  

Reference 3: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/02/trolley-223.html.