The nickname had been given him by three other salesmen at the office.
It is nevertheless the experience of yarn salesmen that Lancashire produces an increasingly large amount of specialities that indicate a continued differentiation in trade.
Export buyers, attended by salesmen, are commonly more or less stationary and prominent; Burnley manufacturers abound in one locality and spinners of Egyptian yarns in another.
They used to call aluminum siding salesmen 'tin men.'
It served an occasional thrifty traveler but mostly catered to salesmen, many on a repeat basis.