I have spoken to John Butler and he has confirmed that he saw the wagon and took the photo in November 1966 at Robinson and Birdsell's lower yard in Moor Road, Hunslet. The yard is still there, but sadly all the steam wagon remains have gone. Quite a few wagons and parts were rescued from this yard. John had initially gone there in a search for Yorkshire parts and purchased a new unused Yorkshire boiler for his wagon. Unfortunately this turned out to be a 3 ton boiler, which is now fitted to the 2 ton Yorkshire.
The Fowler must have been substantially complete when John saw it since he made arrangements to purchase, unfortunately the deal was never successfully concluded. At the time John had a number of steam wagon projects and reckoned that he was unlikely to have considered it at the time if it had been cut up and a lot of important parts had been missing.
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