Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski,
Andrew Hunt and Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with you, Andy.
My fact is that the founder of the UK's first electric vehicle forecourt was named after a service station.
Which service station?
This is a man.
Was he named TB?
He wasn't, he was named Toddington.
A classic.
Oh wow.
Kind of like Paddington Bear actually being named after Paddington Station, but he's Toddington.
Was he founded that service station like Paddington Bear was founded?
Yeah, he came from South America with the Charif Marmalade and no, he wasn't.
It's a really weird story.
So he's a guy called Toddington Harper and he is named after the M1 Toddington services.
He is actually, I believe, the child of some solar pioneers.
His parents were involved in solar electricity when they were younger.