Tanker truck (MB) "Stinnes Fanal"

Tanker truck (MB) "Stinnes Fanal".

Restrained colours could not save the Fanal petrol stations

While Stinnes-Fanal managed to establish their own brand design in the years of reconstruction, the company had to settle for pastel tone colours. All other solid colours had already been taken by the other major fuel brands of the fifties. The Mercedes-Benz short hood miniaturised by WIKING embodies the brief era of the post-war petrol stations that operated under the round “Fanal” label. The brand name was indicative of the commitment the Hugo Stinnes AG made to the nation-wide mineral oil business. Impressively, Fanal was running no fewer than 800 petrol stations in the sixties and managed to grow this number to north of 1,000 stations in the following decade. The sale of the petrol station business - first to Veba and later to BP - forced the company to withdraw from the Federal Republic. While 897 of them were still in operation in 1980, all petrol stations had disappeared two years after the reunification. Stinnes-Fanal was history - at least in terms of their fuel business.

Year manufacture
1969-71

Character of model
A reminiscence of a historic fuel brand

Driver's cab and tank superstructure ivory, interior with steering wheel black-grey. Chassis black-grey, wheel rims ivory. Tank imprint on the sides with heating oil lettering, circular Fanal logo with flame swoosh below. Circular Fanal logo on the rear as well.