Dating from 1947 as one of the original Timpo Toys models, Benbros re-issued the Articulated Tanker without change except to the wheels. Timpo did not include id. on either the cab or trailer so there was nothing to blank out. Benbros called it 'Articulator Petrol Lorry'.

The cab was the same as that used on other articulated Qualitoy models and could be coloured red, green or orange. On early variations there was no silver trim added but later models were finished with silver on the front grille, bumper, and sometimes on the headlights.

The tanker trailer was a solid one-piece hollow casting painted inside and out onto which the axle was directly clipped. An internal cylinder at the front provided the coupling method.

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As with the other ex-Timpo articulated models, Benbros created three types of wheels for the Petrol Tanker. The first was a plain and rather flimsy design of thin metal with only a rim of treaded 'tyres', the whole wheel being painted gloss black on both sides. The second wheel type was hollow-cast and much wider and stronger incorporating an 8-bolt central design. These were painted black on the outside only.

The third wheel type was a metal hub with a black rubber tyre. A 6-bolt design was cast on the outside of the hub but the inside was flat and undecorated. Bright colours were used to paint the outside of the wheels, red, yellow, blue, green or orange. The colours of the cab and trailer wheels were often not the same.

Benbros produced several colour variations of the trailer, most with added decals. The green variations seem to have been unadorned but the red trailers had either 'United Dairies' or 'Shell' decals, and the yellow and metallic green trailers carried an 'Esso' decal. There was only one decal applied to each model and it was usually put on the left side of the trailer. 

The Articluated Petrol Tanker shared two types of generic multi-model boxes. The first was an illustrated end-flap one with diorama pictures of five ex-Timpo models including the Petrol Tanker. Model names were added but no numbers. The Benbros Qualitoy logo was printed on both end-flaps with one having a blank panel for the name of the model to be stamped, in this case 'Articulator Petrol Lorry'.

The second box was a bright yellow end-flap one with eight models pictured on four sides with each model being given a name and number. As before, the Qualitoy logo was printed at each end and a blank panel left for the model name to be added. 

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Although the two types of boxes were probably used at different times, it does seem that the Articulated Petrol Lorry was primarly sold in the first type.      

Being quite a scarce model, good examples are hard to find and those with undamaged decals are rare.