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Foley’s Scania.
I must admit, I don’t remember Foley running Scanias, only Mercedes and some secondhand Atkinsons for local work
Apart from other services they may have operated, B+I Line shared the Pandoro service into Dublin on a 50/50 basis, starting in 1976 - in those far off, pre-open borders era, I was led to understand that their participation was the price of P&O’s access to the port of Dublin. At that time, B+I was a “semi-state corporation” i.e. state owned, but with a remit to operate on a commercial basis and so strive for profit.
B+I operated only a trailer fleet, with no tractors of their own (at least in the U.K.) but. Foley was the nearest thing to their own fleet. I don’t know if it was true, but the tale in the late 1970s was that Mr Foley, or perhaps a relation, was the Transport Minister in Eire, and thus connected with B+I, if only loosely.
One of the Borderers bought secondhand from Pandoro for local work from Fleetwood and Liverpool:
GHG 939N Atkinson Borderer by Chris Gardner, on Flickr