They look like policemen and they have the legend “traffic officer” emblazoned in the back window. But their main job is to clear up the mess after an accident. Which means, technically, they are Wombles.
—Jeremy Clarkson, The Times, 22/07/2007
characters created by author Elisabeth Beresford, originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968. Later became nationally famous in the mid 1970s as a result of a BBC children's television show.
Wombles are pointy-nosed furry creatures who live in burrows, where they help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in useful and ingenious ways.
In the Carolinas, this is a surname. There is a law firm named Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice.
They look like policemen and they have the legend “traffic officer” emblazoned in the back window. But their main job is to clear up the mess after an accident. Which means, technically, they are Wombles.
—Jeremy Clarkson, The Times, 22/07/2007
I believe they have been known to do just that, sionnach.
Do they frequent Wimbledon Common, by any chance?
characters created by author Elisabeth Beresford, originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968. Later became nationally famous in the mid 1970s as a result of a BBC children's television show.
Wombles are pointy-nosed furry creatures who live in burrows, where they help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in useful and ingenious ways.
Principal Wombles were:- Great Uncle Bulgaria - the Wombles' leader
- Tobermory - an engineer and handyman
- Orinoco - a shirker who loved sleep and food
- Bungo - over-enthusiastic and bossy
- Tomsk - athletic Womble
- Wellington - scientifically inclined
- Madame Cholet - a cook