So Scania got it’s Longline cab idea from Foden then, did it? Or was this a homemade job? Robert
Lawrence Dunbar:
curnock:
Craig 111:
curnock:
i drove for merlin at steelpark wednesfield on the british steel contract around that time.they used to send a couple of us down to hoddesdon a few days just before xmas to help out with our unitsI remember seeing blue Fodens at Hoddy around Christmas; didn’t you guys have Powerliner Mercs as well at that depot?
Craig
no,i think they were llanwern mate.the fodens were a darker blue
Llanwern that’s a blast from the past, Richard Thomas Baldwins, RTB, I used to take fire bricks into there in the earley 60s from Henry Fosters Brickyard at Backworth Northumberland when I drove for Smiles for Miles, I used to load back from a firm called Lewis, I never met the bloke everything was sorted over the payphones in those good old days, I used to load small coils of steel for the Singer Sewing Machine Co, at Glasgow, How I miss all this now that Im an old man, Who loved the job, Regards Larry.
Sam Bowkett, from Newport with his Fodens did a lot of work to Singer at Glasgow from the Orb . regards Keith .
robert1952:
So Scania got it’s Longline cab idea from Foden then, did it? Or was this a homemade job? Robert0
That was how they were built IIRC, always looked to me as if they had built a sleeper on, someone had slept in it for the night & they decided it wasn’t big enough, so they cut the back of the cab off & welded another panel in with another window & said “There that’s better” 
. Never looked in 1 of those cabs, but I bet there was some kind of space in there 
, just a shame it looked a bit of a, as you say Robert, home made job 
. Regards Chris
adr:
robert1952:
So Scania got it’s Longline cab idea from Foden then, did it? Or was this a homemade job? Robert0
That was how they were built IIRC, always looked to me as if they had built a sleeper on, someone had slept in it for the night & they decided it wasn’t big enough, so they cut the back of the cab off & welded another panel in with another window & said “There that’s better”
we ran Fleetmasters and that’s home made, the glass is wrong, a plastic cabbed Fleetmaster Sleeper would have dad a single square glass or a panel.
ERF MAN:
we ran Fleetmasters and that’s home made, the glass is wrong, a plastic cabbed Fleetmaster Sleeper would have dad a single square glass or a panel.
Pretty certain ours had a square window on just one side, the other side was a solid panel. Could the one in the pic be a double bunk, side by side?
Pete.
windrush:
ERF MAN:
we ran Fleetmasters and that’s home made, the glass is wrong, a plastic cabbed Fleetmaster Sleeper would have dad a single square glass or a panel.Pretty certain ours had a square window on just one side, the other side was a solid panel. Could the one in the pic be a double bunk, side by side?
Pete.
I am now thinking this is the early steel cab fleetmaster and is how the sleeper was
ERF MAN:
windrush:
ERF MAN:
we ran Fleetmasters and that’s home made, the glass is wrong, a plastic cabbed Fleetmaster Sleeper would have dad a single square glass or a panel.Pretty certain ours had a square window on just one side, the other side was a solid panel. Could the one in the pic be a double bunk, side by side?
Pete.
I am now thinking this is the early steel cab fleetmaster and is how the sleeper was
Hiya …nothing wrong with that cab…its a stock cab but quite rare…try going onto Google images Foden Fleetmaster
thers a few cabs with what look like an extension(which they was really)
John
Hi all can’t believe i’ve missed this thread here’s my contribution sorry its not many but i had young children at the time & they liked playing with the film before i got the chance to get it developed 
the first one is not me the driver being Gary Gibbard & K2CAN (the star of these pics) was double shifted for its first few months before they let me loose with it tramping on tank work
Andrew Morrison:
This is me parked up for night on Aylesham ind est. having just tipped0
Parked up again , nothing changes 
pete smith:
Photo took at leyland museum sept 1987,does anybody know whats happened to this outfit?ta,Pete
MAYDAY,Thursday,1st May,2014.
Foden S-Type DG6 4x2 Lorry,NG 6631,FINDONIAN.1934.This lorry and it’s matching drawbar trailer have high-sided bodies with conveyer belt type floors! 
It was restored and rallied by F.B.Atkins Transport,Findern,Derbyshire,and was transported to vintage vehicle rallies by an Atkinson
Searcher L2466XB6 Flat Drive On-bodied 6-Wheeler Lorry,Q966 AVO,later NI 9185,which transported the Foden and pulled the trailer. What became of this Atkinson? 
Pat Kennett wrote an article on this Foden for the 1982 edition of the SUPERTRUCK Magazine.
This Foden and it’s trailer were sold at an auction in 2006 for £41,475! It’s still a regular exhibit at historic motor and steam vehicle rallies
The vehicle details for NG 6631 are:
Date of Liability 01 07 2014
Date of First Registration 25 03 1934
Year of Manufacture 1934
Cylinder Capacity (cc) 4000cc
COâ‚‚ Emissions Not Available
Fuel Type HEAVY OIL
Export Marker N
Vehicle Status Licence Not Due
Vehicle Colour BROWN
Vehicle Type Approval Not Available
VALKYRIE
Andrew Morrison:
K2CAN 325 ■■■■■■■ twin splitter box
hiya… have you just tipped in the felt works…is Kipps cafe still there Andrew■■? not been there for 10 years now.
John
3300John:
Andrew Morrison:
K2CAN 325 ■■■■■■■ twin splitter boxhiya… have you just tipped in the felt works…is Kipps cafe still there Andrew■■? not been there for 10 years now.
John
Hi yes had just tipped sand i think that went onto the rolls of felt.last time there was circa the pic so can’t help about the cafe & whats more is i can’t even remember the cafe? now that is unusual for me not remembering a cafe thought i’d say it before chris does
regards Andrew
thought you might like to see this one.
