W D Cormack

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Customised promotional model vehicle specialist Search Impex is pleased to announce the release of a new DAF XF Euro 6 Super Space cab (6×2) tractor unit with 3 axle, livestock trailer, customised in the classy livery of Scottish livestock transport specialists & general hauliers, W D Cormack. The models have been produced exclusively for Search Impex by WSI Collectibles as a certificated Limited Edition (225 pieces).

Based in the far north of Scotland in the village of Durran, close to Castletown in Caithness, W D Cormack was established in 1959 by William Dunnet Cormack. Coming from a traditional family farming background, William’s expansion into the transport business began with the purchase of two Seddon 4 wheeler rigid trucks from a local company whose owner was looking to retire. One truck was a standard flatbed but the other came with a livestock box – which he put to immediate use, initially, to transport livestock from his own farm to market. However, word about the new trucks soon spread around the local community and William began to receive requests from other farmers to move some of their livestock as well as to transport agricultural supplies – so making use of the flatbed truck.

The demand to deliver not only livestock, but the other agricultural supplies, including lime for use in fertiliser, resulted in a decision to invest in a third vehicle – this time a 4 wheel tipper. Over time, this was followed by the addition of several 6 wheeler rigid trucks and eventually the first artics with livestock trailers joined the growing fleet. In order to offer a more comprehensive haulage service to the local farming community, a low loader was also purchased to enable the transporting of agricultural vehicles and equipment – and so began the move into general haulage and delivering further afield.

Now into the third generation of the Cormack family, today’s business comprises livestock & arable farming on around 400 acres and a transport operation with a total of 12 trucks (8 artics and 4 rigids) and 22 trailers, mostly livestock & flat bed, but also including curtain, lowloader, chipliner & bulker trailers. Adorned in the classy two tone red and cream livery, W D Cormack trucks are already well known to many model truck enthusiasts not only in Scotland, but also throughout the rest of the UK -and almost certainly beyond!

Models, available from Search Impex, are priced at £143 each (including UK delivery & VAT), although, sadly, this release may well already have sold out by now. However, to check for any availability of this release and other models, collectors can visit the Search Impex website at www.search-impex.co.uk or call them on 01332 873 555