Noddy (character) Hoffmann". Noddy, Big Ears and PC Plod are referred to in the "Two Ronnies" crossword sketch where Ronnie Corbett thinks their names are "Roddy, Big Ears, and PC Plop!" In an episode of "Last of the Summer Wine", all of the characters dressed up as fairy tale characters for a parade. Smiler is dressed as Noddy complete with a smaller version of his car in order to tow a bouncy castle with the rest of the characters on it. But it deflated while they were taking part. Noddy being associated with small children's reading has led to "Noddy" being sometimes
Policeman (laboratory) a little bicycle [i.e. rubber] cement."" However, it seems that Olsen has nothing to do with the production and sales of this invention. Instead, Oesper Collections catalog indicated that policemen sold by the Henry Heil Company of St. Louis as early as 1904.<br> There is no answer on where the name "policeman" comes from. However, there are two assumptions: The second speculation is the most likely the one since in the 1937 edition of Hackh’s Chemical Dictionary “platinum policeman,” defined as "“a platinum-iridium claw that fits over a glass rod and is used to hold a quantitative filter during ignition,”"