On 19 Jun, 17:26, "Mortimer" wrote:
"Tom Anderson" wrote in message

h.li...

But isn't Laing Rail actually Chiltern, and the construction business was
sold off years ago.

The perils of having a company name that is established in everybody's mind
as being in one market sector, and then selling that off and applying the
name to another completely different sector. See Amstrad - until The
Apprentice I didn't know that Amstrad had their fingers in any other pies
than low-end PC computers.

You mean you don't remember their bloody awful "hi-fi" systems from
the 80s? If it was the 1980s and it was a bit of cheap-n-nasty
consumer electronics , then more often than not it had an Amstrad
badge. The only exception was their CPC home computer systems which
were well built bits of kit (I know cos I had one - and it still
works).

B2003