Trolley 656

Another trolley from B&M from the Kokoro Passage, this one with a suppliers plaque on it.

Waitrose and Sainsbury's get their rather more sturdy trolleys from a German company called Wanzl, but this one was imported from China by Storage Handling Equipment Ltd (SHE), these last to be found at reference 2, where I find that I could buy a small trolley for around £75 and a large one for around £150. Plus £10 for the coin operated handle lock if I want one of those. Plus postage and packing. And presumably a lot less if I am buying them by the hundred or thousand. So not worth that much supermarket staff time to collect them up, at least not unless the council, fed up with all the litter, insists.

The SHE shed, confusing called SHZ House, a little to the North of the River Tees, so in the far north. Looks as if it could be a bit bleak in the winter. Given the location, perhaps in the olden days, they actually made trolleys. Or perhaps the metal bashing industry went down the river before the supermarkets came up it.

PS 1: a lot of the mystery umbrella plants of reference 3 are starting to put out impressively vigorous leads. So maybe this one, down Longmead Road, really is just cow parsley. But with various friends and relatives coming up with it.

PS 2: got to from an email which has just turned up from Surrey County Council. Pity they couldn't manage a single graphic covering all local expenditure in Surrey, but a good deal better than nothing. See reference 4 for the full story.

PS 3: while from reference 5 we get the splendid chart above. I dare say Leader Sunak really believes that all these boxes - job creation schemes for lawyers, accountants and tax advisors - add up to a good thing for the UK at large.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/03/trolley-655.html.

Reference 2: https://she-ltd.co.uk/.

Reference 3: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/03/trolley-652.html.

Reference 4: https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/finance-and-performance/council-tax.

Reference 5: Rishi Sunak parachutes Franck Petitgas into Thames Water talks as crunch point looms: The prime minister’s business aide is overseeing efforts to avert the utility’s potential failure - Gill Plimmer, Jim Pickard, Financial Times - 2024.

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