Sky TV Engineers Vans - Pictures

optimus · 6 Jun 2007 at 22:37

I have a depot near where I work, and ever few weeks, there are new vans with difference pictures on (i.e gold, Simpson, Lost) etc etc.

Does anyone know how Sky do it...surely they don't buy a fleet of new vans every few weeks?

And before anyone says there just recovered - there new registrations too.

Millwall.FC · 6 Jun 2007 at 22:43

optimus said:
I have a depot near where I work, and ever few weeks, there are new vans with difference pictures on (i.e gold, Simpson, Lost) etc etc.

Does anyone know how Sky do it...surely they don't buy a fleet of new vans every few weeks?

And before anyone says there just recovered - there new registrations too.

the pictures on the vans are vinyl it can be easily ripped off, some companies only use vans for x amount of months/years and get rid of em.

[TR]SweetSpotOz · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:03

optimus said:
I have a depot near where I work, and ever few weeks, there are new vans with difference pictures on (i.e gold, Simpson, Lost) etc etc.

Does anyone know how Sky do it...surely they don't buy a fleet of new vans every few weeks?

And before anyone says there just recovered - there new registrations too.

Are you really this stupid? Really?

TripleT · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:03

It's called wrapping

VaderDSL · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:04

reminds me of that simpsons episode where they ask what happens to the bowling pins when they are knocked down

shiner · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:06

VaderDSL said:
reminds me of that simpsons episode where they ask what happens to the bowling pins when they are knocked down

Did they ever find out

geuben · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:06

VaderDSL said:
reminds me of that simpsons episode where they ask what happens to the bowling pins when they are knocked down

Homer's dream job at the bowling ally, i love that episode, the bowling pin bit always cracks me up.

VaderDSL · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:18

shiner said:
Did they ever find out

German sorry

Velocity219e · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:18

shiner said:
Did they ever find out

I believe the pins are disposed of by dumping them in a river (and then used by beavers?) and they produce new ones which are manufactured on the way to the bowling alleys.

Okay scratch the river and the beavers, that must be another cartoon.

Aod · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:20

Velocity219e said:
I believe the pins are disposed of by dumping them in a river (and then used by beavers?) and they produce new ones which are manufactured on the way to the bowling alleys.

Okay scratch the river and the beavers, that must be another cartoon.

i love the way they turn a whole tree into one pin

i remember now, the beavers and the river is in the episode where marge gets a job at the plant, and asks homer where all the Tube-cannisters go

geuben · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:20

The Episode where Homer is the beer baron is classic too. Bowling gutter balls and then transporting them to moe's via a crazy network of pipes.

Clapp · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:22

Velocity219e said:
I believe the pins are disposed of by dumping them in a river (and then used by beavers?) and they produce new ones which are manufactured on the way to the bowling alleys.

Okay scratch the river and the beavers, that must be another cartoon.

Isn't the beaver bit when they send messages via those air tube things in the nuclear power plant, and they wonder where the messages actually go to?

geuben · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:22

Clapp said:
Isn't the beaver bit when they send messages via those air tube things in the nuclear power plant, and they wonder where the messages actually go to?

I believe you to speak the truth.

Velocity219e · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:26

thanks for clearing that up, I was worried I was getting my Cartoon Canon mixed up

zobby · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:28

Actually, I think they get them done not too far away from O Clockers. They use massive printers to print the logos off - same thing is used for buses as well.

shiner · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:34

VaderDSL said:
German sorry

Welshy · 6 Jun 2007 at 23:45

optimus said:
And before anyone says they're just recovered - they're new registrations too.

Kol · 7 Jun 2007 at 00:03

Haha, this thread is hilarious. Well done OP.

FrostedNipple · 7 Jun 2007 at 00:14

sky get new vans each day, they give there old ones to virgine medias

Luke · 7 Jun 2007 at 05:20

FrostedNipple said:
sky get new vans each day, they give there old ones to virgine medias

Don't they disable 1st gear before passing it on? This inevitably leads the driver to switch from Virgin to Sky to have the full range of gears they were used to.