TIL: There’s a gritting machine in Britain named after Britney

[MakeMySugarFall]

Doncaster put out a call in Twitter for names for their two new gritter machines and also shared what the rest are called. 

 

One name put forth was Gritney Houston and I’m kind of mad they didn’t chose it. -_-

 

Also I don’t live in Britain so even though I’m typing this as if I understand what gritters are or what they do - I don’t. I just wanted to share a Britney Spears moment. 

[HannahLou]

I think they named it a year ago, I remember watching it on a breakfast news program.

 

A gritter is a vehicle that spreads sand, salt or grit on the roads when they are icy.  

[MakeMySugarFall]

5 hours ago, HannahLou said:

I think they named it a year ago, I remember watching it on a breakfast news program.

 

A gritter is a vehicle that spreads sand, salt or grit on the roads when they are icy.  

Ah ok. We just call them salt trucks here haha. They chose the names for the new trucks - I recall one is David Plowie. And other was really long and I forget what it was.