Corgi Trackside - Thornycroft Nippy Southern Region
Product Code: DG214003
Production Details:
John Isaac Thornycroft started his engineering career
with steam vans and lorries. Born in 1864 the early part of his career was
as a naval engineer but by the late 1800s he turned to road vehicles.
In 1896 he built his first steam lorry and then went on
to build one of the World’s first articulated lorries. By the outbreak of
WWI, Thornycroft’s Basingstoke factory was mainly producing vehicles for the
military
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