A rare Beast!
adr:
A rare Beast!
And it is Cheshire reg , any idea who it belonged to / thank you Trevor .
tastrucker:
adr:
A rare Beast!And it is Cheshire reg , any idea who it belonged to / thank you Trevor .
No idea sorry Trevor!
adr:
tastrucker:
adr:
A rare Beast!And it is Cheshire reg , any idea who it belonged to / thank you Trevor .
No idea sorry Trevor!
Thanks any way adr Trevor
No idea who owned it from new but I remember it at Somerfords garage near Congleton, they had a lot of interesting stuff squirrelled away!
Pete.
windrush:
No idea who owned it from new but I remember it at Somerfords garage near Congleton, they had a lot of interesting stuff squirrelled away!Pete.
Thank you Pete , for some reason i think it could be ex George mayers Chester , thank you Trevor
adr:
Lawrence Dunbar:
Well old Brian Liked the Sed/Aki setup, which was D/D, with cross on diff locks which I don’t think Foden had such a configuration at that time, This motor was for a special job at that time as far as I know, Regards Larry.This kind of mod’ is probably much harder to do, or impossible ( I’m not a mechanic) with modern wagons & all there technology & computerised this/that & the other! And this type of knowledge/experience to be able to do a conversion like that, blokes like that are sadly a dying breed! Regards Chris
Very interesting this talk of grafting Foden’s and Sed/Atki’s together, I did it the other way round too Brain, using the Sed/Atki 400 front half, and the Back half of a Foden S39 mixer together, and it did have cross and 3rd diff locks as well.
I also used the boom off a Ruston Bucyrus hydraulic shovel for a wrecker jib as well. Here’s a link to it, the finished article is a few clicks sidewards as well.
flickr.com/photos/75262259@N03/7057811067/
I did meet Brians son Rody a few years ago when I sold him a Coles crane, nice bloke, but you did need an interpretor.
Anyone know what happend to this coach ?
LeeJ:
Just seen this in Leeds, still earning a crust…
this is owned by Wards at Robin Hood Wakefield its left hand drive it was new to M & S ST MICHEALS Paris France its got the 425 ■■■■■■■ electronic pump EDC 13 speed eaton
moomooland:
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I think that coach also served with a company from Holmeschapel , i believe the name was Hollingwood ? thank you Trevor
An Ex Tilcon artic based a at Gateshead originally driven by Harry Plant who I believe went to work for Van Hee Transport, My cousin bought it and hauled for Tilcon Trumix, Regards Larry.
This Foden S 39 was an Ex Tilcon Tanker, Convereted to a tipper by Sellers & Kent Ilam, My late cousin bought it & ran it on local & distance work for a long time, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
This Foden S 39 was an Ex Tilcon Tanker, Convereted to a tipper by Sellers & Kent Ilam, My late cousin bought it & ran it on local & distance work for a long time, Regards Larry.
The first Foden that I drove after passing my test Larry!
Pete.
Hiya…that foden coach was a rear engined two stroke FD…
also the sellars and kent foden that was a tanker was ex charcon from
hulland ward.
John
adr:
A rare Beast!
Hiya that Foden dose about 80 mph i tried following it one day, when i said to the owner he said it shows 60 on clock.
it belongs to mal sample at sommerford. before that it was sommerford motors which was chatman and balls.
chatman and balls run tippers out of the salt mine at winsford so it could well have been new to them.
Thats malc at the wheel he always wares blue overhauls. malc has about 20 fodens in preservation.
John
3300John:
Hiya…that foden coach was a rear engined two stroke FD…
also the sellars and kent foden that was a tanker was ex charcon from
hulland ward.
John
The Foden was ex Tilcon, Ballidon, John. Its sister tanker was TRA 243K driven by Harry Glover. We also had TRB 130K (Dennis Wibberley, and later Colin Critchlow) and TRB 131 K (Sam Hambleton, and later Bill Clowes who has the truck website, and then Derek Booth) which were both S50 cabbed tippers. TRB 132K was driven by the Late Ian Slater from Parwich, as I said it was the first Foden that I drove laden (to Raynesway Test Station) and I bedded the gearbox in nicely!! 
Pete.