A news story about the long life of a vehicle cleaner may capture the attention of plumber van insurance holders or people in the process of searching for business van insurance quotes.
A man believed to be the oldest worker in the UK has died at the age of 104, after completing his final shift at work. He was employed by a plumbing company, and had been cleaning its plumbers' vans for the past five years.
The workers at the company have expressed their sadness at his passing. The managing director stated, "I can't believe it. Only yesterday afternoon he was in the canteen
"Now today he is gone."
The elderly man's impressive stamina enabled him to continue working well beyond the age at which most men would have retired, and even garnered him media attention in the past.
In 2007 he was involved in an attack by a gang of aggressive youths, managing to fight them off, and a year later he successfully completed the London marathon, which sparked the attention of a documentary film-maker who created a film entitled How to Live Forever' which focuses on man's desire to achieve immortality.
Having been smuggled to Britain from France by his mother as a baby, the man had no birth certificate – but he claimed to have been born in September 1906. As well as serving in World War II, he married and fathered 17 children.
The incredible will power and energy not to retire, even when he reached the age of 100, has been a great inspiration for his co-workers at the plumbing firm, who say he lived life to the full right up to the end.
Holders of plumber van insurance may struggle to find a worker more dedicated to cleaning business vans than this 104-year-old.