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For over 35 years, Paul Abbott worked at a logistics company in the UK with a name that was almost aggressively British.
Knights of Old.
Yes, Knights, as in the guys in armor jousting and maybe storming a castle.
The company oversaw a fleet of hundreds of trucks crisscrossing the countryside.
General cargo handling, warehousing and transportation across the UK and Europe and also international freight forwarding services across the globe.
We were a one stop shop.
Paul started out as a transportation planner and then worked his way up to part owner.
Is Knights of Old like a company that people in the UK just know?
Oh, yes, yeah, I've been around it.
Got a very good reputation for many, many years.
Many, many years is a bit of an understatement, actually.
Knights of Old opened its doors in 1865.
So in the early days they weren't transporting goods by truck.
They were using the technology of the time, a horse and buggy.
And they literally trotted through decades of change, from the introduction of electricity to the telephone.
Its trucks rumbled under the night sky as the first men landed on the moon.
That's one small step for man.
And through it all, they always found a way to adapt and change, whether it was working with this new thing called the World Wide Web or dealing with the complexities of Brexit.
And for more than a century and a half, Knights of Old delivered everything from books to food to farming supplies, providing thousands of jobs and countless on time arrivals.