neil price,barrow
robroy:
Hiya L600 good photos, you had some clean looking motors.
How many did you have at one time, what were the names of your drivers. Just interested I might know some of them.Have you ever thought of getting your old cine films transferred on to dvd?
Well at least he achieved what Stan Robson couldn’t and that was run a 100% Foden fleet ! Cheers Bewick. 
100% Foden for a year or two then 100% ERF then back to Foden finaly.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
Hi Robroy, Thanks for the compliment I did try to keep my wagons looking respectable whenever possible, as for drivers there was just myself most of the time. The cine film is better being scanned the way I am doing it just keeping interesting individual frames, Super 8 was not a good system nor was the camera that I had.
Cheers, Leyland 600
Leyland600:
Hi Robroy, Thanks for the compliment I did try to keep my wagons looking respectable whenever possible, as for drivers there was just myself most of the time. The cine film is better being scanned the way I am doing it just keeping interesting individual frames, Super 8 was not a good system nor was the camera that I had.
Cheers, Leyland 600
Question Gerald? so was the Foden double drive? and what about the ex Stamper ERF was it double of single drive Eaton ? Cheers Dennis.
Dennis, the S21 Foden had an air change 12 speed splitter giving 42 mph and yes it was double drive, the ERF had a David Brown 657 box giving about 53 mph and an Eaton air change two speed axle and yes it was a trailing axle. This was an excellent wagon in all respects.
Cheers, Leyland 600
that s21 looks the bees knees , i used to enjoy driving them , once you had the 12speed sorted you could make them sing . i haven’t driven one for 40 years but the gear shift pattern is still engraved in my head . no use telling dennis about them though , he only ran stuff for lads to play with . dave
Yes the S21 does look good, It must have had the 6.25 Diffs to get 42.MPH, The one I had had the 5.75 ratio type & did 48 MPH. Dennis,s question about It being DD, I have never seen a Foden with single drive, Anyone seen a one ?, Regards Larry.
Hi Lawrence, No I have never seen a single drive Foden tandem axle but I did disconnect the rear diff on mine once because of a problem but cannot recall what, after much jumping about and forever getting nearer to a brick wall I managed to reverse back up the incline off the bridge and have another bite at the acute corner and was able to carry on to the stores. When I got home I soon got Fodens at Carlisle to remedy the fault and reconnect the back axle.
Cheers, Leyland 600
As I have never been remotely interested in anything Foden I am never the less interested as to why Fodens never built any chassis with a single drive option as all the other Quality builders offered the option as a weight saving alternative ! But then again Fodens would still have been promoting Steam as an alternative to diesel well after WW11 had ended and no doubt some of the “dyed in the wool” Foden Operators would have blindly followed. I realise there are a couple of members on the site who are cough! cough" Foden “affecianados” (!) but sorry I always thought they were Blacksmith built rubbish well past their “sell by date”. Fetch my Tin hat and can you direct me to the nearest Shelter please Cheers Bewick.
Foden built plenty of eight wheelers with single drive, British Salt and Rugby Cement had loads of them. They usually had hub reduction axles fitted. The good thing with Foden (in my opinion) was that virtually everything was built ‘in house’ so they didn’t rely on other folks making diffs, gearboxes, axles, brake shoes etc for them.
Pete.
windrush:
Foden built plenty of eight wheelers with single drive, British Salt and Rugby Cement had loads of them. They usually had hub reduction axles fitted. The good thing with Foden (in my opinion) was that virtually everything was built ‘in house’ so they didn’t rely on other folks making diffs, gearboxes, axles, brake shoes etc for them.Pete.
Thanks for that “nugget” of valuable info regarding Fodens Pete !! It is said you learn something new every day, though some days the info is not always particularly useful ! 
Cheers Dennis.
Dennis, the standard of service and security provided by the staff at Foden’s Carleton depot was first class there was never any question of anything being pilfered from my cab, tool box or spare wheel etc unlike some of the other Carlisle agents for quality motors and not so quality ones too.
Cheers Leyland 600
Leyland600:
Dennis, the standard of service and security provided by the staff at Foden’s Carleton depot was first class there was never any question of anything being pilfered from my cab, tool box or spare wheel etc unlike some of the other Carlisle agents for quality motors and not so quality ones too.
Cheers Leyland 600
How often did you have to visit Fodens at Carleton Gerald ? As often as AHB was in CG with his D1000 ? 
Cheers Dennis.
windrush:
Foden built plenty of eight wheelers with single drive, British Salt and Rugby Cement had loads of them. They usually had hub reduction axles fitted. The good thing with Foden (in my opinion) was that virtually everything was built ‘in house’ so they didn’t rely on other folks making diffs, gearboxes, axles, brake shoes etc for them.Pete.
Foden rear axle casings were made at John Thompsons (later Rockwell Thompson) at Wolverhampton, they were some of the largest dome axles they made, I loaded trailers in there and you could only fit half as many Foden axles on a trailer as Albion ones.
Hi ,Larry , We had a single drive one Micky mouse cab 6lw ,ex Federated transport MKT, Harbrough , the only one we we ever had but i believe salt people in Middlewitch had some as tankers ,just a bit of useless info Larry ,Cheers Barry
Trev_H:
Foden rear axle casings were made at John Thompsons (later Rockwell Thompson) at Wolverhampton, they were some of the largest dome axles they made, I loaded trailers in there and you could only fit half as many Foden axles on a trailer as Albion ones.
Ah thank’s for that Trev, I suppose they were a ‘forging’ and not a casting so the work was outsourced? It was Fodens design though, until they went onto Rockwell and Eaton hypoid axles for the later Haulmasters etc. I suppose that means that the Leyland group bought axles in as well yet we were always led to believe that they produced their own at the factory!
Pete.
A couple of years ago , there was a lot of comments about a certain female E.S. driver who was encountering
problems when delivering some cream cakes.
We successfully transported this large wedding cake in the mid 1990`s , and without the television publicity.
It was part of the Sedbergh Gala decorated floats procession . 
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
b.waddy:
Hi ,Larry , We had a single drive one Micky mouse cab 6lw ,ex Federated transport MKT, Harbrough , the only one we we ever had but i believe salt people in Middlewitch had some as tankers ,just a bit of useless info Larry ,Cheers Barry
Hi Barry, I can now remember Walkers Transport from Thurmaston they had a yard close to the testing station they had single drive S 80S with a hub reduction axle, The ones I was referring to was the worm drive type, I couldn’t imagine that they would perform very well, I remember braking a half shaft on my S 20 and It was useless on wet inclines when empty, I found out that the previous owner had broken one and put a second hand one in , But it was a one that had come off a scrapper and was from the wrong side of the axle, I don’t doubt that you are aware that half shafts once used should only be fitted to the same position on the axle concerened, Regards Larry.
No Way Dennis as I have said before I worked a full week most weeks not having every third or fourth week off for another engine change. The old Foden may have been slow and cold in winter but she would climb mountains with that 12 speed box and always got there.
Cheers, Leyland 600.