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| Taken from the Chronicle and Echo 21 January and 7 March 1986 , transcribed by Sue Comont |
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Totector's Mobile Shoe Shop Lorry
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Totectors, the Rushden firm who make safety footwear, have bought a 63 foot long lorry capable of carrying 2,500 pairs of shoes and boots to use as a giant mobile shoe shop. By the end of the year, the firm plan to have three of these lorries which cost £100,000 each. They will replace the smaller mobile shoe shops which have travelled all over the country on sales drives. Totectors UK sales manager Colin Chatfield said the firm’s policy of taking the product to their major customers was very popular as it saved customers much time and hours of administration. The firm already had three lorries which had done about 200,000 miles each so it was important to replace them. The new lorry is claimed to be the country’s biggest mobile shoe shop. This purchase came just weeks after the firm invested £500,000 in new equipment to extend its' range of double density polyurethane soled safety shoes. The new equipment was inspected by the assistant secretary for the Department of Industry who toured the Carnegie St. factory to see how the footwear industry makes use of high technology. Totectors has been in the forefront of the safety footwear industry since the last century and its' predecessors Wilkins and Denton were the first manufacturers to introduce steel toecaps. Totectors was the first firm to introduce double density polyurethane soled shoes which give a comfortable sponge insole moulded directly to the uppers with a hard wearing anti hazard bottom sole.
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Naturally, this comprehensive service can only be made available to larger companies where numbers of personnel to be kitted out justify a visit from one of our mobile shops.
