Clean It Up

UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Moderator David@stives on January 23, 2013, 08:43:25 pm

Title: Scott Young
Post by: Moderator David@stives on January 23, 2013, 08:43:25 pm
Has anyone got a link to any info about Scot Young travelling around the Uk in a taxi promoting the Squeegee
Title: Re: Scott Young
Post by: Alex Gardiner on January 23, 2013, 09:02:30 pm
Quote from: David@st-ives on January 23, 2013, 08:43:25 pm
Has anyone got a link to any info about Scot Young travelling around the Uk in a taxi promoting the Squeegee

Was only reading about this earlier in the week - cannot for the life of me remember where!
Title: Re: Scott Young
Post by: trevor perry on January 23, 2013, 09:14:04 pm
in manchester my dad said it was unger that travelled about demonstrating the squeegee and remembers him demonstrating it on a thirty foot pole.
Title: Re: Scott Young
Post by: stuart mc on January 23, 2013, 09:15:11 pm
I can remember where alex here ;) Ian lancaster wrote a bit about it
Title: Re: Scott Young
Post by: andyM on January 23, 2013, 09:16:25 pm
http://www.syrclean.com/aboutus.html

Don't mention much but shows a picture of him standing by what looks like a taxi with squeegee in hand.
Title: Re: Scott Young
Post by: A-W-C on January 23, 2013, 09:20:48 pm
Here is a link scroll down to Ian Lancasters reply

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=61905.0
Title: Re: Scott Young
Post by: A-W-C on January 23, 2013, 09:31:04 pm
Looks like Ettore started it

http://www.ettore.com/consumers/about-us/history-part-2/
Title: Re: Scott Young
Post by: Ian Lancaster on January 23, 2013, 11:36:20 pm
There was an article about it in the FWC magazine several years ago (might even have been back in the days of the National Federation of Master Window and General Cleaners)

I attended a NFW&GC exhibition in London when Scot Young gave his address regarding this, so got it direct from the horses mouth ;D  He described it as:  "We're in a war here, they've got bows and arrows and I've got a machine gun but they can't see my weapon is better than theirs" then went on to describe how he hired the taxi etc.  This was in the mid 90's - Scot was an old man by then and made a point of telling us that when people asked him what he did he always said he was a window cleaner, even though by that time his company was a multi-national and he himself a millionaire.

As he was himself the 'Phantom Window Cleaner' I've no reason to doubt the truth of the story.  As he told it he only drove around London.  I'm sure this way pre-dated Unger, when I started the only squeegees available were Ettore.
Title: Re: Scott Young
Post by: bobplum on January 23, 2013, 11:56:38 pm
whats a squeegee ???
Title: Re: Scott Young
Post by: robertphil on January 24, 2013, 07:49:19 am
syr tiger sleeve is absolutely the tops of tops .   but you have to wash it a few times first
Title: Re: Scott Young
Post by: Alex Gardiner on January 24, 2013, 08:13:31 am
Quote from: stuart m on January 23, 2013, 09:15:11 pm
I can remember where alex here ;) Ian lancaster wrote a bit about it

Shows how quickly I forget!