84-year-old has to use HGV to shed his load

It appears there really are too many companies and not enough names to go round.

Hot on the heels of confusion over Design Distillery supplying earth-moving equipment rather than design skills, the vehicle-monikered HGV Design has now been mistaken, not surprisingly, for a company offering lorry driving lessons.

But more comical still comes news that it has been confused with a supplier of pornographic videos. The design group had an irate woman on the phone accusing them of sending her father, aged 84, a video catalogue.

‘He couldn’t have received a mailing like that without asking for it,’ says HGV director Barbara Brown.