Dipster:
Guy Big J 8lxb:
About once a fortnight my Brother and I would stay overnight at my Nan’s House, she lived on Liverpool Road (Islington) one junction away from Holloway Road, at the other end of the road was a Transport Café I think it was called Brady’s.
We would lay in bed and listen to the Lorries coming and going and we would guess what they were by the sound of the engine, we were good at it.
You could hear the Foden from some distance away, if it stopped at the lights that were about 50yds from our bedroom, well it was like Christmas Eve for two kids who were lorry mad, we’d listen to it making it’s way to Holloway Road and count the gear changes, we thought it was the best.
I know next to nothing about this Engine, over the years my Dad had Leyland’s, Aec’s and Fodens (Gardner), was this Engine a success, was it reliable, what was it like on fuel and how was it to drive…RJ
I bet you knew the Rootes TS3 too!
The good old Commer…
RJ