I think the only person happy with Paccar’s decision was Mr Hino
Alan’s baby !!
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Alan’s baby !!
Picture of a similar tipper (perhaps the same ?) on Dave Smith’s site :
A great fan of Fodens going back to my first one in the 70s here are some of
the pics I have. Nos. 2 and 3 are from the Peko mine in the Northern Territory
of Australia and are from a 60s video sent to me by Sheeter.
The Tory one was a great motor and eventually replaced by an almost
identical wagon and drag, sadly I have no pictures of that one.
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That Tautliner looks a handful Spardo!..here’s a great old picture
This ones operated by the Nuclear Development programme of Kazakhstan
I was lucky enough,on numerous occasions,to enter not only the Foden factory,but also the nearby ERF factory,when I was driving for a company,whose biggest contract was ■■■■■■■■■■■ I was delivering parts to both of them.
My one big memory of the Foden factory,was,that upon entering the goods in,the production line was going around,just above your head,and it was nice to see trucks in their raw state,with bits hanging off,left,right and centre,all waiting to be joined together with other components further down the line.
IIRC,the test track was just over the road as well.
Ken.
i worked for kebrall fasteners out of darlaston i used to deliver to foden
regulary,the first time i went there i was shocked how small the factory
was,i was expecting a huge place
Limey:
That Tautliner looks a handful Spardo!..here’s a great old picture
A bit tight on some of the corners but obviously easier to reverse and with no
rear overhang to speak of you could turn left alongside a bus without taking
the side out 
. Can’t remember the reason for those set back axles, the
trailer predated my time at Toray and before me they didn’t have proper
transport men running the job, leaving salesmen to sell accountants anything
they could talk them into.
I like that 8 wheeler road train with all the Ruddocks containers. Pretty sure
that outfit belonged to Co-Ord, an organisation of several hauliers based in
Alice Springs. One of those hauliers was my boss, Noel Buntine, and we often
had Co-Ord vehicles running into our yard to refuel. The original idea was to
keep the big transport operators out of the NT but one by one the small fry sold
out 'till only Noel and a big firm from NSW (can’t remember the name 
)
owned the shares. Then he sold out so the pass was sold. 
I wonder if Sheeter will come along and identify the truckstop in the
background? Or maybe someone with the necessary enhancing skills? Could
it be Ma (?) at Daly Waters, the place where I stopped for a drink after quitting
Buntines with a couple of mates several hundred miles away, and a bloke at
the bar was passing on the news of our departure. 
Come on Dave, help me out. 
Selbys garage from Woodhouse eaves in Leicestersire
Breedy
I’ve seen that picture before David, and think it could have been taken at the Three Ways roadhouse - before it was pulled down and rebuilt - as a Tourist-Lodge type place. It was 15 miles north of Tennant Creek, on the Stuart Highway, at the junction with the Barkly Highway.
This Foden was in Katherine 1965 - it’s from this WebSite
…search for “road train”
Behind the headboard is a Case loader, it’s front bucket on one of the trailers.
And this one was at Helen Springs NT, in 1958.
There’s plenty more Fodens (and Road Trains) on that site…
Here’s another one at the Peko Mine in the Northern Territory - bags of copper concentrate are being sheeted up before the 350 mile run down to the railhead at Alice Springs. When I worked at this place I used to wonder why it wasn’t all palletized, because that’s what happened later on - before it was transhipped onto the train at Alice. Teams of blokes used to pick the heavy bags of the stuff off of a conveyor and stack it on the tray bodies - in the summer the temperature could reach 120°F
David, this is another Co-Ord motor, the other firm that came in to load this stuff was Baldocks Transport - weren’t they an Alice Springs outfit? Before my time there, Johanssen used to occassionally load up his Diamond-T road train - according to his book.
By 1973 a lot of the long distance transport in the NT was done by out-of-state carriers - like John Dring from Adelaide.
This one is an 8x4 tractor that I saw in Perth - 1975
A Foden that had broken down - a half cab, 6x4 side tipper that usually pulled 3 four-axle side tipping trailers. Photographed in 1973 at another copper mine in the Northern Territory. Slowly but surely the company replaced the Fodens with Mack Maxidynes
And here is one of the very last Fodens - alongside an earlier model.
Some great pictures there Dave. Yes, Dave Baldock started his transport
business in the Alice although he had tried to make a go of it in Tennnant
Creek beforehand. His first motor was a 4 wheeler Ford which he ran
overnight from Alice to Tennant because he had perishables on board (a flat
truck) taken from insulated rail containers at Alice. 320 miles and get there
before the sun comes up and the cabbages go off.
I liked the bit about the track being so rutted that he could set the hand throttle
and get a bit of a kip on the journey. Sounds like a tall tale we have heard
many time as a joke - but I believe this one.
Didn’t recognise the picture of the Foden in Katherine, and I lived and worked
there for a time. Still most of the time not on the road was sleeping or
eating. 
This thread wouldn’t be complete without this one.
My old man worked for Hoveringham 43 years, we lived in the next village, Thurgarton. I remember those 2-strokes screaming through the village to try to make it up the hill, and even today I can tell a Foden 2-stroke a mile off.
Here’s one we had in the garage i worked in going back a few year’s 
Let’s get the Foden Thread moving again !
What was the designation of that model of Kendrick’s and Campbell’s, BD?
I had one as a powder tanker when I first started for K&M at Bulwell (well after a few days on the Micky Mouse which was so hot due to a bonnet side panel missing next to the manifold that in the depths of winter I drove in shirt sleeves with the windows open ) and really liked it.
I know we would call it cramped nowadays but I found it cosy and comfy.
The seating position was high so even I was looking through the top half of the screen, perfect for pulling on that wheel which was well down and snug in the lap.
The gear lever was in the natural position with no need to reach as in some motors and the range change lever just under the finger tips on the dash.
With the Foden 12-speed and 150 Gardner I was really in my element.
The Kendricks model is the S36 (single screen windscreen) and the Campbell version the S39. (Split windscreen).
Quite an old basic designed cab before Foden went all ‘boxy’ with the S80/83 and the Haulmaster S10 etc.
I don’t recall the first batch that went out but Fodens went on to give this cab a new lease of life by keeping it on the production line right up to around 1980,by releasing it on a six wheeled chassis (tipper and mixer) and calling it ‘The Sixer’.
My dad drove a concrete mixer S39 for Tilcon in 1983,and it was brilliant ! Me dad hated it but I loved it ! Whenever the plant at Dove Holes went busy,they used to ship other drivers in from other plants,and some of these lads who came across were ODs with the latest tackle of the day.They were quite a difference the new Foden S108s (Y reg 1982) compared to me dads S39 (S reg 1977) !
I think he once took a series of pictures when Earles cement works (BCC) at Hope Valley were building a new silo in '83.There were 10mixers that day detailed to work out of Dove,and he took pictures of them all lined up waiting to load and tip.Sadly these pics have disappeared over time,but if ever I find them,you can be sure I’ll boot them up onto here.They made for a rare sight,as the pics were mixed S39s,S10s Haulmasters,and the latest s108 cab.
Trafford Park based Charles & W H Taylor seen on Toddington Services back in 1978
4525 of Alan Thurgood also on Toddington Services but many years later in 2005
S83 of R Atkinson on the outskirts of Bedford in 1979
