Hello NZ Jamie and eveybody.
This is not a wind up - but you could be trying to wind up me.
1.I cannot produce any written evidence in regard to the Foden Sabrina name being
written in books and magazines-yet. But it will happen sooner or later.
2.Forum member,Sepo,on referring to the Foden Sabrina Cab,said “I’ve had this conversation loads of times with different people over the years and I’m almost sure this must be a regional thing, but the S39 was reffered to as I remember…” The Foden Sabrina name might be universal on
British fairgrounds,but,as Sepo says,it’s a local thing in various parts of the country,i.e the
United Kingdom in regard to the road transport industry.Wobbe Reitsma has spent most of his life living in his native Holland…no wonder he’s never heard of the Foden Sabrina name - but he
has now.Thanks to the Internet.
3.In the early 1960s the S21 Spaceship Sputnik Cab was briefly nicknamed “Sabrina” for a period,but not many people knew about this until the advent of the Internet,and I have not seen
anything about it in books and magazines.But there are a few refferances to it on the Internet.
4.So just because a word,or subject,or name,or whatever is not in print in book and/or magazine form does not mean to say that word,or name,or whatever,does not exist. The Foden S24,S34,S36 and
S39 Sabrina name has been in use for above thirty-five years - Sepo’s father was driving a Foden
S39 Sabrina in the early 1970s at least,and they called Foden S24’s,S34’s,S36’s and S39’s Sabrina.
As I’ve already stated,British Leyland introduced the AEC Yellowline (As Good As Gold) and Guy Greenline Lorry ranges in July 1970. Many books and magazine articles on AEC (especially AEC) and
Guy have been written and published during the last thirty years and more,but no mention is made
in these publications about AEC Yellowlines and Guy Greenlines!!! And,as I say,Peter Davies,THE
Peter Davies,didn’t know anything about the AEC Yellowline and Guy Greenline names until he read about them on the BIGLORRYBLOG Website in 2010 or 2011,at least forty years later!!!
5.Thus the written word is not everything! As has been proved,things can exist without ever being written about in book and/or magazine form. And even if it has,it can be forgotten about,as in the case of the AEC Yellowline and Guy Greenline names.
6.Somebody on Flickr the other other day mentioned the Leyland Mouth Organ and Leyland Waterfall
Cab’s.I know these names and what they are refferring to,many travelling showmen and some lorry
enthusiasts do,too.But many other people probably have never heard of these names.
Again,and just because these names have probably never appeared in print in book/and or magazine
form does not mean that they do not exist - they are still out there!
7.Sepo has ALREADY CONFIRMED THE EXISTENCE of the Foden S24 Sabrina,S34 Sabrina,S36 Sabrina and S39 Sabrina name(s),so have I and so have many other people on the Internet:There is no need to question me,because the objective facts are what I have already written about this subject,and that the Sabrina name is actually used as a name for the Foden S24 Sabrina,Foden S30 Sabrina,
S34 Sabrina,S35 Sabrina,S36 Sabrina,S37 Sabrina,S38 Sabrina and S39 Sabrina Cabs.
AHA! - HERE WE GO AGAIN! You mean to say that you have never heard of the S30,S35,S37 and S38 Cabs? You have now - the power of the Internet - it’s probably the first time that they have
been written about on the Internet,and in book form:Foden Special Vehicles…although these
cab designations have existed for above forty years…it’s the same old familiar story.
8.I now quote the publisher of the above said book in regard to my Amazon UK review of it,Retriever:“Not so much a review, more like an exercise in minutea! Retriever”
It is really obvious that you,Retriever,do not like me (and probably anyone else for that matter) criticizing any of the books that you have published.But,and with respect,as a publisher,
‘If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen’."
And since Wobbe Reitsma,Peter Davies,Graham Edge,etc,are actually dealing in the self-same
fascinating minutia (one of the main reasons for their books in the first place!) as I am - I
am in very good company.
That’s probably two or three enemies that I have already made on this Forum-Website,and I’ve only written two posts so far! OH WELL,Fleetwood Mac.
RENÉE PILOT.
