On the other side of the Atlantic: > The story of these hilarious gritter names goes back to 2006 when Transport for Scotland decided to run a competition in S

On the other side of the Atlantic: > The story of these hilarious gritter names goes back to 2006 when Transport for Scotland decided to run a competition in Scottish primary schools. Pupils were tasked with inventing the best possible names for a fleet of gritters. (Gritter = salt/grit spreader, more common than an actual plough in Britain, although Scotland presumably needs some of each.) I don't know if Scotland was first with the idea. Big vehicles have been named for centuries, officially and unofficially. (Ships, trains, planes etc.)