The Foden 2 Stroke Engine

[windrush]

Those lighting papers still appear on stalls at rallies nowadays Robert, surprising just how many are still around. Nigel Wilde's late father Graham used to tow a threshing set around the Peaks with one back in the fifties and he loved them! It was replaced with a tvo Nuffield which Nigel still rallies, to get the set up 'the scratter' out of Ashford towards Monsal Head Graham used to hang a claw hammer on the Nuffield's governor and he said all the following traffic vanished in the smoke!!

Pete.

[1970commer]

Those lighting papers still appear on stalls at rallies nowadays Robert, surprising just how many are still around. Nigel Wilde's late father Graham used to tow a threshing set around the Peaks with one back in the fifties and he loved them! It was replaced with a tvo Nuffield which Nigel still rallies, to get the set up 'the scratter' out of Ashford towards Monsal Head Graham used to hang a claw hammer on the Nuffield's governor and he said all the following traffic vanished in the smoke!!

Pete.

I started Maurice Dean's Field Marshal at Elvaston Steam Rally a few years ago Pete, he couldn't emphasise enough the importance of pulling the starting handle out as the decompressor dropped back over, he said if it kicked back it WOULD break your arm,

I've got a single cylinder Armstrong Siddeley 8hp which drives my saw bench, the handle takes some turning on that on a cold morning but I've never had it try to break my arm YET!!!!

I think that's probably enough posting now for another 12 months, back into hibernation, what do you think?

[windrush]

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Aye, I suppose you have almost exhausted your vocabulary by now so it's time for a rest!

Pete.

[captain1]

hi
i had a few Gardners 180 240 and never had a problem starting on the coldest morning never even used the decompress er a lot of smoke though unlike the cummings that were addicted to easy start so back to the Foden 2 stroke were thy fitted with this cartridge system ? it realy did work well that morning i dont rember a lot of smoke or noise but it was about 58 years ago and i was as green as grass then
please tell me i have not been dreaming all these years
john

[windrush]

hi
i had a few Gardners 180 240 and never had a problem starting on the coldest morning never even used the decompress er a lot of smoke though unlike the cummings that were addicted to easy start so back to the Foden 2 stroke were thy fitted with this cartridge system ? it realy did work well that morning i dont rember a lot of smoke or noise but it was about 58 years ago and i was as green as grass then
please tell me i have not been dreaming all these years
john

I hadn't ever heard of the Foden having a cartridge starter John, but then I didn't have much to do with them?

Pete.

[Old John]

It's interesting that Pete's experience of performance from Foden Two-stroke drivers in his neck of the woods is at odds with the experiences of former drivers I knew. Without exception they told me that hill climbing fully loaded wasn't the strong suit of the two-stroke. One of these drivers worked for J.W. Whewell of Radcliffe, a chemicals company, and they had a couple of Foden six-wheeler rigids with Two-stroke engines. They were hellish noisy things I remember.

A 5 litre engine struggles in anything heavier than a 4 wheeler who would have thought it.It's a bit like Bedford expecting the 6v71 to work in a 32 tonner.It's impossible to understand the thought process of the designers and managements in the day.

The F86 and F7s worked at 32 tons and they were only 6.7 litre

Plenty of F7s ran at 38 tons. I think they were turning out 240hp from the TD7 by that time, and they weren't the slowest yokes by any means.

[rastone]

Those lighting papers still appear on stalls at rallies nowadays Robert, surprising just how many are still around. Nigel Wilde's late father Graham used to tow a threshing set around the Peaks with one back in the fifties and he loved them! It was replaced with a tvo Nuffield which Nigel still rallies, to get the set up 'the scratter' out of Ashford towards Monsal Head Graham used to hang a claw hammer on the Nuffield's governor and he said all the following traffic vanished in the smoke!!

Pete.

I started Maurice Dean's Field Marshal at Elvaston Steam Rally a few years ago Pete, he couldn't emphasise enough the importance of pulling the starting handle out as the decompressor dropped back over, he said if it kicked back it WOULD break your arm,

I've got a single cylinder Armstrong Siddeley 8hp which drives my saw bench, the handle takes some turning on that on a cold morning but I've never had it try to break my arm YET!!!!

I think that's probably enough posting now for another 12 months, back into hibernation, what do you think?

There was a farmer mate of mine had a two stroke Foden as a stand by generator

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Brochure 1969.

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