Foden

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=215 BGCOLOR="#CC0000" TEXT="#080000"> <div> All Pictures currently on this page kindly sent to me by Leslie Freathy</div> <div> If you have any Foden pictures you would like to see on this page I would be happy to include them.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="473c5850.jpg" border=0 width="197" height="133" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="475c0850.jpg" border=0 width="192" height="133" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="477bf820.jpg" border=0 width="191" height="130" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=95 BGCOLOR="#CC0000" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>Big Al's Truck Stop</B></FONT><B>  </B><B> </B><B>|   </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Big Als Truck Stop"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My History"><U>My History</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Photo Album"><U>Photo Album</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Classic Lorries"><U>Classic Lorries</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Atkinson Lorries"><U>Atkinson Lorries</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mildred"><U>Mildred</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guest Page"><U>Guest Page</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id51.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="More Dubai"><U>More Dubai</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Picture Links"><U>Picture Links</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Leyland Rally Day"><U>Leyland Rally Day</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Barnard Castle Truck Show"><U>Barnard Castle Truck Show</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Old British Haulage Firms"><U>Old British Haulage Firms</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id56.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Brock Transport Cafe"><U>The Brock Transport Cafe</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lowloaders"><U>Lowloaders</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Work"><U>Work</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guests and Their Trucks"><U>Guests and Their Trucks</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lorries Trucks"><U>Lorries & Trucks</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Old Lorries"><U>Old Lorries</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Demob Holmfirth"><U>Demob Holmfirth</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id34.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Holmfirth 2"><U>Holmfirth 2</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Holmfirth 3"><U>Holmfirth 3</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="USA Trucks"><U>USA Trucks</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Thornycroft Lorries"><U>Thornycroft Lorries</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ex War Dept"><U>Ex War Dept</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ERF"><U>ERF</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Model Lorries"><U>Model Lorries</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Accidents will happen"><U>Accidents will happen</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="More Thornycroft"><U>More Thornycroft</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Thornycroft Basingstoke"><U>Thornycroft Basingstoke</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id44.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Work 2"><U>Work 2</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Clear out"><U>Clear out</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Vintage Rally"><U>Vintage Rally</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id47.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="H.C Wilson Transport Ltd"><U>H.C Wilson Transport Ltd</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dubai"><U>Dubai</U></A>   |   <B>Foden</B>   |   <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Preston Trunk"><U>Preston Trunk</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Real Big Boys Toys"><U>Real Big Boys Toys</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="1911 Paige Detroit"><U>1911 Paige Detroit</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=385 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FF0000" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Foden</I></div> <div> Leslie Freathy sent me these pictures of Foden Lorries and I promised him I would start a Foden Page. So here we go,</div> <div> many thanks Leslie. If anyone else has pictures of Fodens and you would like them published on this page please send</div> <div> <A HREF="mailto: lorryman@gmail.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto: lorryman@gmail.com"><U>mailto: lorryman@gmail.com</U></A></div> <div> Foden gritters working for D.O.E based at KCC depot, currently operated by Ringways at Faversham in Kent</div> <div> <IMG SRC="45d96120.jpg" border=0 width="406" height="274" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="45f9c140.jpg" border=0 width="412" height="276" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> T.Reynold's DG Timber tractor  CV 8092 and  Micky Mouse cabbed Foden, pictured in Docherty's yard in Essex</div> <div> <IMG SRC="4659f1d0.jpg" border=0 width="415" height="285" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="467a51b0.jpg" border=0 width="421" height="283" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Three magnificent b/w photos FG cabbed S18 with knock out low loader trailer circa 1950's and two Foden Steamers.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="469abfd0.jpg" border=0 width="427" height="253" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="46b99fb0.jpg" border=0 width="409" height="251" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="46d8fbf0.jpg" border=0 width="655" height="447" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> More pictures from Leslie Freathy received 15th June 2006 (thanks Les)</div> <div> McKelvie S34 cabbed unit cica 1964 ?                                                  Wynn's magnificent DG Heavy haulage Foden cica late 1940's ?</div> <div> <IMG SRC="46fd3290.jpg" border=0 width="467" height="297" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="471cf290.jpg" border=0 width="463" height="297" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Sam Satterthwaite's Foden in working condition                                   Jack Wellstead of Eppindust Cape Town, South Africa  (AFROVAN)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="479d33b0.jpg" border=0 width="467" height="315" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="47bd43e0.jpg" border=0 width="468" height="318" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> More pictures from Les received 27th June 2006 pictured at Biggin Hill Airshow early 1970's two Foden lorries destined for British Army.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="4b2d2490.jpg" border=0 width="466" height="329" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="4b4d6160.jpg" border=0 width="470" height="278" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> I scanned the following from a paper dated March 15th 1921 when steamers still held sway and running costs were measured in cwt per miles.</div> <div> For you young ones that is how far a steam traction lorry would travel on one hundredweight of coal (112 lbs or 50.80kg) There was various</div> <div> claims between 12 and 16 miles per hundredweight. Notice the telephone numbers Sandbach 45 and 46.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="5c47dcc0.jpg" border=0 width="893" height="1228" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> And this one from Motor Transport May 25th 1946 when Foden  still  manufactured quality lorries.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="5c8ddcf0.jpg" border=0 width="989" height="719" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>What a little beauty, pictured at the Autumn Transport Show held at the British Commercial Museum,Leyland, 24th Sept 2006</B></div> <div> <B>I have attended shows all over the country and never seen this Foden before.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="5f2b4780.jpg" border=0 width="948" height="632" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The very last Foden ever to be produced, donated to the British Commercial Museum at Leyland where this picture was taken.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="601b0750.jpg" border=0 width="944" height="629" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Tim Whalley sent me these two pictures of his Foden 4375 with Rolls Royce diesel engine.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="609d1570.png" border=0 width="465" height="343" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="60bc7550.jpg" border=0 width="455" height="341" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>John Salisbury kindly sent me these pictures  of his S21 8 wheeler ex Blue Circle now in the livery of Warrington Funfair</B></div> <div> <B>family, Silcock's. Previous owner thought to be another showman from Manchester Gilbert Chadwick, John would like to</B></div> <div> <B>trace anyone with information on this Foden registration number UGO 676F   John is currently undertaking restoration</B></div> <div> <B>of this lorry, it has a factory fitted Leyland engine. I hope John keeps us upto date with this project.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="60da5bc0.jpg" border=0 width="933" height="700" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="60fccd90.jpg" border=0 width="972" height="729" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Bob Pott sent me this picture and info on this fine Foden lorry. The Foden was new to Claridge and Co in 1941 and was the actual</B></div> <div> <B>tractor used on the works publicty photos for that year. T.T Boughton bought it in the mid fifties, at some stage the cab was knocked off</B></div> <div> <B>and replaced with an FG cab. Bob bought it derilict about  12 years ago and restored it to the fine state it is in now, she is powered by</B></div> <div> <B>a Gardner 5LW fitted with super low gearbox. Bob many thanks for the picture and information.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="6d3b1c40.jpg" border=0 width="945" height="708" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>This picture of J.J Bishops 1946 Foden powered by Gardner 6LW engine is by kind permission of Terry Swarbrick.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="819ce480.jpg" border=0 width="974" height="584" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I took this picture at Paul Marshall's garage at Hoghton near Preston, Paul had adapted the step frame from a curtainsider.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="81cdd930.jpg" border=0 width="989" height="659" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <div>                                                       </div> </td> </tr></table></body>