Lawrence Dunbar:
servo88:
210Thank you “servo88” For posting these good old Fodens, The Freeway S21, IIRC,When new it had the S20 cab on, It was badly damadged in the Consett Steel works when it was only months old, & The S21 cab was the only one available at that time, Regards Larry.
Cheer,s Larry, thank,s for that info 
Geo. Blackett crew during demolition of Havannah Terrace, Washington. This was next to the Army camp.
Who remembers the TV adverts for the company on the side of trailer? The Punjabi airways one is on you tube!
pete smith:
Who remembers the TV adverts for the company on the side of trailer? The Punjabi airways one is on you tube!
I remember the advert for them just 
animal:
pete smith:
Who remembers the TV adverts for the company on the side of trailer? The Punjabi airways one is on you tube!I remember the advert for them just
Hiya,
Aren’t / wasn’t Elddis restoring an old Siddle C Cook Scammell I did read about it
but have never seen a pic have seen the working vehicle painted up in Siddle’s
colours but the vehicle in question was one of the old heavy haulers.
thanks harry, long retired.
harry_gill:
animal:
pete smith:
Who remembers the TV adverts for the company on the side of trailer? The Punjabi airways one is on you tube!I remember the advert for them just
Hiya,
Aren’t / wasn’t Elddis restoring an old Siddle C Cook Scammell I did read about it
but have never seen a pic have seen the working vehicle painted up in Siddle’s
colours but the vehicle in question was one of the old heavy haulers.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hi Harry, A friend of mine who lives at Castleside used to work a Cookies & he drove some of those oldies, Its possible that he might be at Corbridge Car Show on Sunday so I will ask him if he knows anything about this restoration motor, He owns an ex Salkeld Foden, Regards Larry.
servo88:
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Thanks for this great photo “servo88”, My kind of wagon is those good old days, Its a great pity they stopped making them, Regards Larry.
servo88:
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Hiya,
Never ever got to drive a Foden, but have had a ride in this albeit only from
Moorside Consett where I used to live to Cookies yard where I worked for
Tayforth/Tyne Tees and latterly we were BRS Consett up to the yard closing.
The lads who drove the “strokers” hardly ever stopped, the things wouldn’t
hardly get up the bank into Consett if they pulled up for me at the bottom
of the bank, the odd “stroker” driver who did stop for me couldn’t half whizz
the gearstick about going uphill trying to get the old girls going again, got to
admit it did put me off Foden’s a bit, but I was a bit biased having a Volvo
F88 to drive when I got to my place of work.
thanks harry, long retired.
Hi Harry,
Your remark about the strokers not wanting to lose momentum reminded me of early days. I bought my first artic in December '69, having driven the Comet since April, mainly with timber from The borders to Lancashire. I’d only driven the Mastiff for 3 months of the necessary 6 months to get a class one, so had to take a test.
I had a week’s training. (Not a lot!) the guy that took me and another chap, was an ex copper amongst other things. Unlike Bewick, I was more or less self taught, and at age 21 you know everything don’t you. The words I heard most during that week were ‘take your bloody foot off the brake, the corner will take the speed off you!’
He also asked me many times ‘what’s coming around the next corner?’ At first I hadn’t a clue. By the end of the week I was driving much ‘further away’ weighing up the traffic in the distance and figuring out when I would meet it. Something I hadn’t really considered before.
So, I realised that I didn’t know everything and the course taught me a lot. The only bright point of the week (apart from passing my test at the end of it) was on a ‘long’ trip. From Barrow we went up through Ambleside then to Keswick. We stopped for lunch before we got to Penrith on the A66. The other pupil had driven up to that point. I drove after that.
We went over the brand new M6 and turned right on the old A6 towards Kendal. After Eamont Bridge there was a nasty little ‘click’ before you got to the Lowther Sawmills (now Jenkinsons). I was a cocky young sod, but had been on that road many times before the motorway opened and had learned in the comet that if you didn’t change down early enough you could be left high and dry and trying to set off in crawler, then with no hope of changing up until you reached the top.
I changed down and down again. The training vehicle was empty, but I didn’t want to embarrass myself. As we crested the hill, the instructor said ‘you’re the first student I’ve ever had who got into the right gear for that hill!’ Boy was I proud of myself.
John
Lawrence Dunbar:
harry_gill:
animal:
pete smith:
Who remembers the TV adverts for the company on the side of trailer? The Punjabi airways one is on you tube!I remember the advert for them just
Hiya,
Aren’t / wasn’t Elddis restoring an old Siddle C Cook Scammell I did read about it
but have never seen a pic have seen the working vehicle painted up in Siddle’s
colours but the vehicle in question was one of the old heavy haulers.
thanks harry, long retired.Hi Harry, A friend of mine who lives at Castleside used to work a Cookies & he drove some of those oldies, Its possible that he might be at Corbridge Car Show on Sunday so I will ask him if he knows anything about this restoration motor, He owns an ex Salkeld Foden, Regards Larry.
There was a picture of a 1960 Scammell Highwayman in Siddle C Cook’s colours in the February issue of ‘Vintage Roadscene’. It has the fleet no. 116 on it. It was pictured in a very dilapidated state in the scrapyard of Rush Green Motors, Hitchin. In the June issue of the magazine it is pictured restored, with a ballast box on it. Reg. no. is 100 JPT. The caption states that ‘The vehicle is at the moment undergoing a full restoration and will be turned out as an artic. tractor, as first purchased by Cook’s, and will be in the company’s livery’ Eric.
Thanks for the info Eric, IIRC They also had a Scammell JPT100, A 1948 reg, Regards Larry.
