Gregory Boulevard Nottingham
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Gregory Boulevard Nottingham
That could be my last gaffer driving that Drabbles van before he started in haulage himself! We were based at Drabbles mill near Tansley. had a large garage there with a pit so all the trucks were kept inside, then the mill closed and we moved to Wirksworth.
Pics of the garage at Drabbles, been like that for 20+ years now.
Pete.
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RT 2237 in service for 27 years.
Heath Road, Prees Heath, Whitchurch. Salopia’s Whitson-bodied Foden observation coaches parked outside the Raven Hotel.
fodenway:
Heath Road, Prees Heath, Whitchurch. Salopia’s Whitson-bodied Foden observation coaches parked outside the Raven Hotel.
The one and a half decker a comparatively rare breed. There is also one of the BEA Regal IV fleet pictured a few posts back on the Hammersmiith Flyover
More about Salopia Saloon Coaches, worth a read.
fodenway:
Heath Road, Prees Heath, Whitchurch. Salopia’s Whitson-bodied Foden observation coaches parked outside the Raven Hotel.
Which engine was used in Foden coach chassis ?
Bewick:
fodenway:
Heath Road, Prees Heath, Whitchurch. Salopia’s Whitson-bodied Foden observation coaches parked outside the Raven Hotel.Which engine was used in Foden coach chassis ?
According to the chassis number it is a Foden PVRF6. I think this indicates that it was the Foden two stroke 4.1l fitted.
Dennis Javelin:
Bewick:
fodenway:
Heath Road, Prees Heath, Whitchurch. Salopia’s Whitson-bodied Foden observation coaches parked outside the Raven Hotel.Which engine was used in Foden coach chassis ?
According to the chassis number it is a Foden PVRF6. I think this indicates that it was the Foden two stroke 4.1l fitted.
if it had the Foden 2 stroke engine fitted I wonder what the noise levels were like especially for those passengers sat nearer the front ! 
Cheers Bewick.
I think them coaches were rear engined, but hopefully someone on here will know for sure.
dave docwra:
I think them coaches were rear engined, but hopefully someone on here will know for sure.
Well if they were rear engined or maybe underfloor horizontal ? I will re phrase my question " were they noisy wherever you sat on board" ? Cheers Bewick.
Bewick:
dave docwra:
I think them coaches were rear engined, but hopefully someone on here will know for sure.Well if they were rear engined or maybe underfloor horizontal ? I will re phrase my question " were they noisy wherever you sat on board" ? Cheers Bewick.
Barnsley British Co-operative Society had a coaching division, Unity Coaches, back in the fifties, and they had several front-engined Fodens and two rear engined ones all with two-strokes. The front engined ones could get a bit noisy when pulling hard (I always wanted to sit at the front!)(what? eh? you’ll have to speak up!), but the last two were surprisingly quiet. The engine was mounted transversely behind the rear axle in the same way as Leyland’s Atlantean a few years later.
Gardner 5- and 6LW were an optional fitment in both chassis as well as the contemporary double-deck chassis, although only one of these was fitted with the two-stroke. Ironically, after a couple of years as a demonstrator, it was sold to W.A. Cawthorne, upon whose death the PSV side of his business and premises were sold to the Co-op and formed the basis of Unity Coaches. The Double-decker was passed immediately to Yorkshire Traction where it was used until late 1959, sold to Cowleys of Salford (a dealer/dismantler) and scrapped a couple of years later.
fodenway:
Bewick:
dave docwra:
I think them coaches were rear engined, but hopefully someone on here will know for sure.Well if they were rear engined or maybe underfloor horizontal ? I will re phrase my question " were they noisy wherever you sat on board" ? Cheers Bewick.
Barnsley British Co-operative Society had a coaching division, Unity Coaches, back in the fifties, and they had several front-engined Fodens and two rear engined ones all with two-strokes. The front engined ones could get a bit noisy when pulling hard (I always wanted to sit at the front!)(what? eh? you’ll have to speak up!), but the last two were surprisingly quiet. The engine was mounted transversely behind the rear axle in the same way as Leyland’s Atlantean a few years later.
Gardner 5- and 6LW were an optional fitment in both chassis as well as the contemporary double-deck chassis, although only one of these was fitted with the two-stroke. Ironically, after a couple of years as a demonstrator, it was sold to W.A. Cawthorne, upon whose death the PSV side of his business and premises were sold to the Co-op and formed the basis of Unity Coaches. The Double-decker was passed immediately to Yorkshire Traction where it was used until late 1959, sold to Cowleys of Salford (a dealer/dismantler) and scrapped a couple of years later.
Thanks for the interesting info “fodenway” although as a lad growing up in Kendal in the early 60’s we were subjected to the Foden 2 stroke factory artic travelling along the A6 to the top of Shap and back what must have been 5 days a week and it was always a spectacle ! So zb noisy it really was but then there was also a lot of noisy zb Scotsmen traversing the town at that time 
! cheers Dennis.
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