A TRADEMARK of Dunfermline's past has made the 2,000-mile journey home after languishing in a Finnish forest for nearly 40 years.
A lorry belonging to what used to be one of Dunfermline’s biggest haulage companies, ‘M A Wilson and Sons’, has just completed a long-awaited return to Scotland after being left to rot in the woods.
Anthony Mitchell, a local businessman, refused to believe his 20-year dream of bringing the lorry back to the Auld Grey Toun was impossible and a chance find via a truck journalist in Finland set the wheels in motion.
Revealing the project's origins, he said: "As a child growing up in Townhill, I used to watch the Wilsons lorries trundling through the village in which they were based.