Trailer art replicated in miniature by Search Impex

The livery on vehicles operated by Penfro Peche Ltd really is a work of art and it has now been replicated in miniature.

Customised promotional model vehicle specialists Search Impex has created a 1:50 scale model version of Penfro Peche’s Volvo FH Globetrotter XL (6x2), with a three-axle, refrigerated trailer complete with the company’s eye-catching artwork.

John Vincent from Penfro Peche commented: “The models are very impressive. I was sceptical at first that the livery could be replicated but the team at Search Impex have done a great job. I really would recommend them.”

Penfro Peche was incorporated in 1989 and began life operating from Milford Haven in Wales, but since then has also opened a second base at Lochinver in Scotland.

Originally involved in the management of fishing boats and thereafter agency work and consultancy within the fishing industry, the company branched out into transport in 1997.

Nowadays, whilst the transport side of the business is still run from Milford Haven, the trucks load mostly out of Scotland. In keeping with this, one of the vehicles (registration plate P33 CHE) has a Scottish flavour with a graphic of a Highland cow chewing a thistle featured on the front of the cab.

The first truck purchased by Penfro Peche back in 1997 was a Scania 460 with, as is typical for the industry, a white reefer trailer. Whilst contemplating how best to livery the new reefer trailer, the Managing Director viewed the huge plain white sides very much as an artist’s canvas – and so commissioned a local artist to hand-paint a design directly onto the trailer sides.

The brief given was to be imaginative and creative, yet topical and relevant. The result was a painting depicting a (Welsh) dragon pulling a net from the water, with various fishing buoys in the seascape - the marker flags on top of the fishing buoys being in the national colours of the Company’s trading partners.

Since this first trailer mural, the initial “story” has evolved, but it still very much retains the dragon character, as can be seen on the Company’s present-day trailers.

Jim Newsome, from Search Impex, commented: “This was a particular challenge as the artwork is very distinctive so getting it replicated on a miniature truck was the main task for us. We’re pleased with the result and delighted that Penfro Peche are, too.”