My vote is that both businesses are real (but they have some pretty lame Web pages!).
When I see those sorts of sci-fi references for companies, they tend to mostly be for
software/tech companies. :-)
FYI, there's also a New Zealand musician named Chris Knox who I'd noticed used
"Harlington-Straker" as the name of his publishing company for his song writing in the
late-80s/early-90s.
- Michael
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[hidden email], James Gibbon <jg@...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:09:23 -0500
> "Mario Butter" <mario.butter@...> wrote:
>
> > Has to be a spoof. The line "A Question of Prorities" has a
> > misspelling and the "contact us" link is for a gmail address. Plus
> > there is nothing but that main page. But it's fairly well done.
>
> I bet it's real. If it were a spoof, it would be a bit
> more ambitious!
>
> This is interesting, as well:
>
>
http://www.harlington-straker.co.uk>