Inside Charlie Mullins’ fleet of Pimlico Plumbers work vans with personalised number plates worth £1.5million
THE founder of Pimlico Plumbers boasts a fleet of vans with personalised number plates - worth in excess of £1.5million.
Charlie Mullins invested niftily in the inscribed plates to get people talking about the plumbing empire before he sold the company in 2021.
Pimlico Plumbers has the largest plumbing-related collection of number plates in the world - worth about £1.5million.
At one point, former owner Mullins would fork once to twice a month out for a new bespoke plate.
It comes after the self-made millionaire managed to get his flash £450,000 Rolls-Royce stuck on a bollard.
While trying to make way for the other car, Charlie didn’t notice the obstruction and drove over it, exposing his personalised number plate 'CII4RLE' as amused pedestrians walked by.
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The expensive motor then had to be removed by a breakdown truck.
Deep-pocketed Mullins had assembled a batch of motors with personalised plates under his premiership - at one point coughing up an eye-watering £35,000 for the sign 'CA11 OUT'.
Other nifty creations featured have included 'MET3R', 'BAS 1N', '51 NKS' and 'DRA 1N'.
Mullins left school at 15 with no qualifications and became an apprentice, setting up Pimlico Plumbers in 1979 from an estate agent's basement.
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He is currently pursuing a career as a media personality.
The entrepreneur recently completed a pilot episode for a show called Naked Millionaire, where he has to build a business from scratch.