Who invented the skip?

Question

Who invented the skip?

Answer 1

It was invented by a flat-bottom stone across a pond that was thrown with a sidearm pitch, but the stone never came back and told of it.

Fortunately, the thrower noticed the stone's great effort, and was reported in all the leading journals of the day.

Answer 2

An 8 year old girl from ancient Greece, I think her name was Dioaphro, daughter of Jazeu.

Answer 3

Skips and skip lorries

The ubiquitous 'skip' and the lifting frame to handle it was invented in France in about 1956 by a company called Bennes Marrel. The British firm Broughton was already building something similar to handle pipelines in the desert. They teamed up with the French and by 1960 Bedford lorries were being fitted with the Broughton-Marrel equipment and skips started to appear on building sites around the country.

Fig___ Bedford lorry carrying a skip



By the later 1970s the skip sitting on the road where a house was being worked on was a common sight. At night they had one or two rectangular red oil lamps hanging on the road side of the skip and these were often left in place during the day (see also App 1 - Roads and road traffic - Roads and Road Works). The later yellow flashing lamps were more difficult to hang so they tended to end up on the road beside the skip. By the mid 1990s lights seem to have been dispensed with and a few plastic traffic cones were deemed sufficient. Most skips I have seen have been painted yellow and most have had the details of the hiring firm emblazoned on the sides in large black lettering, however not all are like this, the example below had no visible markings of any kind.

Fig___ Skip with cones 2006

Answer 4

Hey, don't look at me-I don't understand your question. -Steve