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Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by heavypixels on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:20AM (#39464912)
The story continues in the Netherlands, where a company licensed the Keller and Knappich design to produce their own trucks. Of course, they released it under their own names: Klinkenberg & Koster, abbreviated as KLIKO, which they too stamped in large font on their trucks and bins. And today "kliko" is the common Dutch name for the wheelie bin.
Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People by SargeDebian on Thursday February 22, 2024 @04:47AM (#39465085)
I guess only in those parts of the country where Kliko had a large market share at some point. The Otto brand name is so strong in the east that they have no idea what a Kliko is.