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Skip Hire – The History
Skip hire is one of those things in life – very unglamorous, but pretty necessary. Where did it all start? Why are they called skips? Where did the whole idea come from? Skips started appearing on our streets roughly around Britain in the sixties. Post war, the boom in industry created a massive need for waste, and domestic households saw a rise in waste produce as consumerism shot through the roof. The traditional way of using tipper wagons to wait on site, to be handloaded was getting too impractical and too expensive – especially with smaller sites like building houses. skip hire in portsmouth Someone’s idea to stick a massive container outside the front of a house renovation caught on and this became accepted as the norm – it stopped the need to double handle for a start. The idea principally came from Germany where the industry of skip hire had begun. Then in London, a comapny called George Cross and Co of London pioneered the concept and imported the equipment – it didn’t take long to realise there was a massive, untapped markiet. skip hire ashford kent And not much has changed either – the only thing really is that the only skip available in the early days was a 5/6 cubic yard skip – now there’s all sizes available from 2 cubic yard to 48 cubic yard. Even the wagons are the same – although I imagined the suspension’s improved. skip hire in plymouth And the traditional colour yellow? Well, that stems back from the 1971 Highways Act where legislators must have had a right old time, driving around tracks in the dark experimenting on what was more visible in the dark – white or yellow. In the end, the colour yellow won – and we see it today. Skip hire has been on a long journey since the early days. From nothing 50 years ago to an industry involving hundreds of thousand employees and generating millions of pounds per year – not bad eh?!
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