Eddie Stobart

Edward Pears Stobart (18 April 1929 – 25 November 2024) was a British businessman who started an agriculture business in the late 1940s.

Stobart was born in Cumberland (now Cumbria) on 18 April 1929 to devout Methodist parents, John and Adelaide.

[2] After leaving school, Eddie helped his father on the farm and took occasional horse-and-cart work with Cumberland County Council.

[5] In 1960, Stobart bought his first lorry (a Guy Invincible four-wheeler truck) second-hand from the local garage, and had it re-painted in his choice of colours: post office red and Brunswick green.

He took over the collection of basic slag (a waste product of steelworks used as fertiliser) when local company Harrison Ivinson went out of business, and purchased two Ford Thames Trader trucks which were also painted in his favourite colours with his logo on the doors.