Friday, June 05, 2020

Mystery Fowler

Here's a little mystery. I have this lorry on a shelf - presumably bought because it's an Isle of Man collectable - but can't identify the maker. It celebrates the 1993 Douglas vintage rally.

The model is 105mm long. On the gaudy orange chassis, all we have is "Fowler Steam wagon 1927" but no makers mark.

The cab is riveted on, but the load bed attaches with screws which suggests that alternatives were available.

Can anyone tell me more?

4 comments:

Jody said...

Hi Phil, I think you have a Lledo Fowler steam wagon. Lledo always seemed to be rather light on model detail and actually putting their name on the model, I seem to remember various versions of this model being available, I think there was a Fishermans Friend, Halls Lozenges and a couple of other promotional versions.

Phil Parker said...

I think it's too large for a Lledo and there is too much plastic (all the orange stuff is plastic) for them, they did more diecast.

Ian C said...

Is this the sane thing...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174281867831

James Finister said...

It does seem to be a Lledo production, most commonly seen in a Halls Mento Lyptus promotional livery