Not feeling that Christmas groove thing .... not sure why? Concious that I must keep the blog positive. Newton has had the most amazing sales year in our history - just over a 1000 trailers sold which is ludicrous given the overall vibe of the year. We have had plagues, winds, fires the lot. But a huge amount of good planning and good work by our team and by our suppliers has left us with a record year. So I guess it is a big thank you to my amazing staff and my supportive customers. I truely hope for a few less plagues next year for all of us. Best of health and happiness to you all....
PS We are open til Christmas Eve unless the lurgy gets us.
Posted by Andrew on 20/12/2021
Knapen have release their latest development into the wilds.
It is an anodised aluminium chassis - in silver grey. More durable than paint - may even last for ever (depends on your view of time).
It is quite a big step forward. All manufacturers have been hitting paint problems with the removal of Chromium Oxide from paint formulations - this is better than a work around
Posted by Andrew on 08/12/2021
Good to see that Commercial Motor Magazine penmanship is up to snuff. Interesting to see them reporting that Fruehauf had a 90 % market share prior to their Bankruptcy in September. Well possibly that maths might work in some universe - somewhere where grass is purple and dogs have two bottoms - 90 per cent in a suburb of Grantham perhaps? It is not even hard to fact check - there is public data showing market shares. At some time Commercial Motor needs to work out that people in our industry need objective reporting not Press Releases or their magazine will need to have slightly more perforations and come on a roll to be useful to us?
Thanks to Father Ted for 'Small Far Away' - perspective can be tricky when your primary advertisers issue press releases that are slighty out of kilter with planet earth.
Posted by Andrew on 29/11/2021
Sat in on a meeting with Bank's chief economist and was quite shocked after slides and charts and the usual good stuff that..............all was well in the UK. It did make me feel better. And best of all Brexit never happened. Looking at all the slides and charts Brexit does not show up on the last 2 years of UK performance data - Covid - yes certainly makes a bit of a dip on the graph (biggest since WW1) but that bounces back to 'meh'. So equities look set fair, interest rates - will peak but not cause trouble, inflation will peak but not cause trouble, and companies and households are sat on the biggest savings cash pile for some decades and will unleash it as soon as they can. So rosy - but then he is an economist - so could get his rubber out and change the charts when the future actually shows up....
Posted by Andrew on 29/11/2021
STAS - Endless pleasure.
We have been fortunate enough to have been working with STAS for a number of years - which has been a pleasure - great product and great people. As you may or may not know STAS use the strap line - 'endless pleasure'. This can obviously cause the odd wink or smirk to the potty minded amongst us Brits but if you think more deeply it does make sense. STAS have moved beyond just offering a product that works and endeavour to become your and our partner in life - at least for the long life of a trailer. We see this as our philosophy too and we are now offering the STAS tipping trailer range as our number 1 product partner - we hope you all enjoy the Endless Pleasure we can offer you!!
Posted by Andrew on 29/10/2021
