An advertisement from 1969.
Not a bad payload for 30 tons G.V.W. 
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
FLOURPOWER:
0FODEN S20 REYNOLDS FLOUR MILLS GLOUCESTER
Hi FLOURPOWER < nice old pic , thanksfor providing it . Did Reynolds have a big fleet of Fodens , i have to confess i can just remember them . regards Keith .
Hi Keith,they had a mixed fleet,Bedfords,Aecs,ERFs and Fodens,they came part of Allied mills and closed in 1977 and the fleet got transferred to Healings of Tewkesbury another Allied mills depot cheers Keith.
kingswinford kit:
FLOURPOWER:
0FODEN S20 REYNOLDS FLOUR MILLS GLOUCESTERHi FLOURPOWER < nice old pic , thanksfor providing it . Did Reynolds have a big fleet of Fodens , i have to confess i can just remember them . regards Keith .
cattle wagon man:
An advertisement from 1969.Not a bad payload for 30 tons G.V.W.
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
I remember that Foden and tank very well. It was one of the first, if not very first, artic tankers Ranks had after the 1964 C & U Regs made artics a better option because of payload. British Isles Transport, the Ranks transport divisions. was always a strong union company and drivers were opposed to artics coming into the fleet, so it took some time for negotions to be completed with the union to trial artics. This Foden was based at Ranks Birkenhead mill, one of the most militant set of drivers in the entire company, they would strike there if a manager looked at a driver the wrong way. I can picture the driver of that Foden in my mind’s eye, but can’t remember his name after all these years.
Rankins of Rochford steamer. Didn’t the drivers always look proud men in these old photos. Rankins was later an Allied Mills acquisition.
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Tewkesbury mill.
gingerfold:
cattle wagon man:
An advertisement from 1969.Not a bad payload for 30 tons G.V.W.
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
I remember that Foden and tank very well. It was one of the first, if not very first, artic tankers Ranks had after the 1964 C & U Regs made artics a better option because of payload. British Isles Transport, the Ranks transport divisions. was always a strong union company and drivers were opposed to artics coming into the fleet, so it took some time for negotions to be completed with the union to trial artics. This Foden was based at Ranks Birkenhead mill, one of the most militant set of drivers in the entire company, they would strike there if a manager looked at a driver the wrong way. I can picture the driver of that Foden in my mind’s eye, but can’t remember his name after all these years.
Hi “Gingerfold” ,
Thanks for the feedback (no pun intended 
) about the Foden.
It`s quite surprising what one photographic advert from 1969 can do to rattle the brain cells again.
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
