Stobart Oldie

Edward Pears Stobart born in 1929 is better known as Eddie Stobart and is a British businessman who started an agriculture business in the late 1940s. This became Eddie Stobart Ltd in 1970, 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. In 2004, the youngest son William Stobart and Andrew Tinkler (William Stobart's then brother in law) bought the company, eventually the company demerged and became two separate public companies the Stobart Group and Eddie Stobart Logistics.

The DAF 2800 was launched in 1973 at the IAA Show in Hanover in 1973 with it's new tilt cab it was a replacement for the 2600. The 2800 was the first European truck to have a intercooled turbodiesel producing 320 bhp from it's 11.6 litres. 

Photo of C279 ORM is courtesy of and copyrighted to Ade Portlock.

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