Macadam-woman:
According to my husband, a frequent visitor of European-exhibtions, the line-up
of total 5 Foden-chassis was in Geneva and organised bi-annually. He’s however
not sure if in that particular year it was indeed in the old Palexpo-hall.
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For Foden in the mainland, nationalisme of the Dutch, French and German truck-
industry was killing as was the (lack of) back-up and a disaster in stockkeeping of
spares. Galliker of both CH and B was about to buy Foden but was awakening soon,
them being more on international trucking than (Friderici…from origin local for
the glass-industry and heavy haulage) others. Galliker soon was a Volvo-partner.
Macadam-woman:
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Robert, you wouldn’t have any pics of the BOC Euroshield Fodens would you? While I was working there, the 4 LHD french registered ones were re-registered on Englisn plates - from memory;
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I drove a RHD one - J385 RVT for a while. 14 L ■■■■■■■ (rated @365 BHP) Eaton twin Split, a good driveline. To be honest, I didn’t rate the cabs too much, I thought that while the cab was a good size, there wasn’t much useful storage space, and the bed was too small due to the size of the wardrobe. However, a good, reliable, cheap truck to run - did get some strange looks in Europe sometimes mind.
kmills:
Robert, you wouldn’t have any pics of the BOC Euroshield Fodens would you? While I was working there, the 4 LHD french registered ones were re-registered on Englisn plates - from memory;
J 855 JKM
J 867 jkm
J 873 JKm
J 874 JKmI drove a RHD one - J385 RVT for a while. 14 L ■■■■■■■ (rated @365 BHP) Eaton twin Split, a good driveline. To be honest, I didn’t rate the cabs too much, I thought that while the cab was a good size, there wasn’t much useful storage space, and the bed was too small due to the size of the wardrobe. However, a good, reliable, cheap truck to run - did get some strange looks in Europe sometimes mind.
Hello kmills - I had forgotten all about those Euroshield Fodens! I have no pictures of them, but perhaps someone will read your post and provide us with some. Funnily enough I did a short stint with BOC Euroshield myself in the summer of '93, driving ERF E14s with fridge trailers to Paris (Evry) and Antwerpen. They were leisurely round-trips with regular drops and pick-ups and a generous time scale, making the job very pleasant. Own-account operator, of course!
Cheers, Robert
Just found another reference to this LHD Foden. Apparently it was employed on logging work for Salaman Freres. If anyone has heard of this company, we’ll know in which country the vehicle worked! Robert
Not a 4000-series but a 1954 LHD Dutch Foden. Unfortunately an unclear picture.
Robert (re your LHD TM thread), I remember that BOC Transvite also had LHD Bedford TM’s on French plates. - there was 1 left abandoned in the yard at Evry while I worked there. We had a RHD Tm at Faversham until the mid 90’s - your old mate Burt Peckham used it mostly for the odd local delivery while I was there. I remember going to Luton in it once to load the sandwiches that used to go to M&S in Europe - 290 ■■■■■■■■ 9 speed Road Ranger, and boy did it fly. DKL —Y was the reg.
Macadam-woman:
Not a 4000-series but a 1954 LHD Dutch Foden. Unfortunately an unclear picture.
There were quite a lot of Dutch Fodens with LHD in the '50s and '60s. I believe Wobbe is writing (or has written) a book about them 
Robert
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A surprise Spanish one! Robert
With regards to the Israeli Foden posted earlier, Fodens were imported to Israel from the late 80-on until PACCAR decided Israel should have DAFs only. So we never had the very last DAF-cabbed models. Israeli spec Fodens were all ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ equipped but some heavy duty ones had the planetary Deutz rear axles. They were almost all 6X4s or 8X4s. Most are now gone, either sold to the Palestinians or the Jordanians or scrapped…
