Eddie Stobart

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Eddie Stobart
Born
Edward Pears Stobart

(1929-04-18) 18 April 1929 (age 94)
Cumberland, England
Years active1940–1989 (Retired)
Known forFounder of Stobart
Spouse
Nora Boyd
(m. 1951)
Children4, including Edward and William
Scania G400 (L7487 Joanne Hazel) and Scania R440 (H6342 Laura Anne). seen here in Widnes Eddie Stobart PE60VNB (L7487 Joanne Hazel) & PK11VDL (H6342 Laura Anne) (8627531419).jpg
Scania G400 (L7487 Joanne Hazel) and Scania R440 (H6342 Laura Anne). seen here in Widnes

Edward Pears Stobart (born 18 April 1929) [1] is a British businessman who started an agriculture business in the late 1940s. This became Eddie Stobart Limited in 1970 and expanded to a haulage company during the 1970s with the help of his late son Edward Stobart who gradually took over the running of the company.

Life and career

He was born to John and Adelaide Stobart in July 1929. Stobart married Nora Boyd on 26 December 1951, and they live in Cumbria. They had four children: Anne (born 1952), John (1953–2022), Edward (19542011) and William (born 1961). Eddie bought his first lorry (a Guy Invincible four-wheeler truck) second-hand from the local garage in 1960, and had it re-painted in his choice of colours: post office red and Brunswick green. He took over the collection of basic slag (a waste product of steelworks used as fertiliser) when local company Harrison Ivinson went out of business, and purchased two Ford Thames Trader trucks which were also painted in his favourite colours with his logo on the doors. A contract with ICI for storage of basic slag in 1963 enabled expansion of the business, and it became a limited company: Eddie Stobart Limited in November 1970 with a share value of ten thousand pounds. In 1978 with a downturn in the Economy Eddie had 8 vehicles on the road along with a leased vehicle to Pickervance. [2]

Eddie continued to run the company until 1976, when son Edward took over running the transport side. [3]

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References

  1. Millom celebrates VE Day with action... Archived 2 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine . eladvertiser.co.uk. 11 August 2005
  2. Noel Davidson (1998). Only the Best will do: The Eddie Stobart Story, pages 76, 88 and 124. Ambassador, ISBN   978-1-84030-043-7.
  3. "Charting the impact of the rise of Eddie Stobart down the years..." Times and Star. 6 July 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2024.