Wednesday, 30 January 2019

Siegel

The trolley with a name beginning with 'S', mentioned in the previous post, has now been revisited, with the name turning out to be 'Siegel'.

It took a little while to track them down but I think we may now the story. The Siegel brothers split off from Wanzl in 1955, which they had helped found a few years previously, to form Siegel Brüder GmbH & Co. KG Draht- und Metallwarenfabrik. Subsequently they expanded into Poland. They then ran into trouble and the German operation was taken back into Wanzl in 2007 and the Polish operation spilt back off to become Produs, who supplied the history. While Wanzl supply Sainsbury's.

All of which fits in quite well with this being a Wilko trolley.

But on reflection, I didn't think it right to return it, as the trolley appears to be mixed up with the refurbishment of the Mexican style eatery (with Elvis tribute options) which used to be a proper old style public house, the Plough and Harrow, when we first arrived in Epsom. Almost on private land, which is something of a no-no, although we have not yet had an unambiguous ruling on the point from the rules committee.

PS: Bing alone was not enough and I had to invoke the power of Google to get this far.

Reference 1: http://www.produs-ss.pl/en/historia.

Reference 2: http://www.produs-ss.pl/.

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