Here is a haulier from ■■■■■■■ who has added one or two Fodens over the years.
Dave the Renegade:
Muckaway:
I’ve seen a couple like it on some 3000 hanson mixers Dave, not sure what the gross would be? Would that config be for lorries with difficult axle loadings lie builders merchants where pallets are taken off the back with a load left up front (like the brewery Chinese 6s)?You are probably right Nathan.Radbournes of Hereford have a couple of six wheelers with a single wheeled axle in front of the doulble,they obviously downrated,but for a purpose.
Cheers Dave.
The owner of those Fodens liked to design his own wagons as much as he could so was always into something different. I think the gross weight was about 28tonnes but it is very rare to see them with the axle down so I think it has only been done for cheap tax.
Hello all
HERE ARE A FEW FROM MY SCRAPBOOK
Regards R-Jacko
Muckaway:
Fitted with ■■■■■■■ Celect 10litre 340bhp. This truck has a really irritating immobilizer fitted. Turn ignition off for 10 seconds, the system arms and you have to re-input the code. Tax is really low, I think it said about £280 for a year this engine must’ve been ahead of it’s time given it’s a 2000 reg, it’s also really quiet compared to the CAT C10.
Do you know if that is a stretched 6 wheeler tractor as i was sure the last 4000 series tippers were on s reg
Found this old girl sat in a yard near Poole.
I am sure that if my great Grandad Thomas and my great uncle John came back I could persuade them of the error of their ways for running Fodens!!! Bewick.
kr79:
Muckaway:
Fitted with ■■■■■■■ Celect 10litre 340bhp. This truck has a really irritating immobilizer fitted. Turn ignition off for 10 seconds, the system arms and you have to re-input the code. Tax is really low, I think it said about £280 for a year this engine must’ve been ahead of it’s time given it’s a 2000 reg, it’s also really quiet compared to the CAT C10.Do you know if that is a stretched 6 wheeler tractor as i was sure the last 4000 series tippers were on s reg
Definitly a true 6 wheeler, Smiths had a pair of these plus a tractor unit. The sister 6 wheeler W845 ULN has been sold to someone in the Worcester area along with their sole ERF EC11, and the W reg tractor is beind dismantled for parts for W844 and their oldest tipper V772 GBY. I’ve seen T reg rigids around though Smiths never bought T’s went from S reg to V.
Some Foden’s from Roy Morgan’s photo’s.
zeddman:
Hello everybody ,Been registered awhile ,but just stood and watched the crack…but this got me interested…here a couple I used to drive doin the beer
Looks like Coors burton on trent to me there zeddman ?..
R-JACKO:
Hello all
HERE ARE A FEW FROM MY SCRAPBOOK
Regards R-Jacko
Hi R-JACKO, ref; the middle pic of the silver and blue foden. Used to see them around a lot in the 90s, mainly ERFs, but do recall seeing the odd Foden.
Were they called Bailey’s transport, where were they from… 
Some more of Sharples of Eardisley,Herefordshire.
This is one sat in covered storage on a farm where i tip in hertford… Looks the bees… 
And thats an old Leicester reg, so wonder where she started out…!
A few more from Sharples yard.
Some from Ivor Duggan.
Here are a couple of 6x4s from the M6 today and what I believe is the Foden Falcon referred to in an earlier post, seen a couple of years ago in the same place.
hiya,
Dave never drove a Foden in earnest the best i ever did was when on for the BRS i used to do a regular Monday morning drop at ICI Cricklewood where a guy from Robinsons of Stockton on Tees famous for the Foden half cab trunkers also tipped on a daily basis, when i got there he was always there before me the motor having been left there by the night man who had done his bit and gone to bed the Robinsons motor had dry ice on the back and was very quickly unloaded usually before i’d got my ropes and sheets off one morning the shunter who i’d got to know quite well announced he was going for a cuppa “missed me breakfast” if i’m not back just pull it out and you can get your motor in if i’m not back see you next week, well that was the extent of my Foden experience about a hundred yards just far enough to change up a gear, it was like driving a telephone box, seemingly and according to Mr Robinson the drivers loved them the shunter said differently he hated them and his trunker likewise, tell you what i was’nt smitten, often wonder did old Robinson really save all that much money or was he just a tight so and so they was the most basic thing i’ve ever encountered but would have been at home on a rigid chassis operating as a quarry dump truck, sorry Foden fans.
thanks harry long retired.
Those Ivor Duggan trucks must’ve had a good payload especially the 3000s. I had one that had a 14m3 Charrold steel body on and that carried nearly 16 ton even with a catwalk fitted behind the cab. Love the Sharples pics, I remember Smiths having a half cab Foden dumptruck, “The Iron Lady” as she was known, smokey noisy thing but was really reliable and powerful.
Hi Harry & Nathan,
Never drove a Foden either,had a lift with another driver in a mickey mouse cabbed two stroke eight wheeler belonging to Freddie Brace from Hereford.
Ivor Duggans six wheeler 3000 series carried 17 tons,the Alpha,s he runs now carry a good payload as he doesn’t insulate any of them,his lorries only carry lime or stone,also fodder beet in the winter.
Sharples over the years ran more Fodens than anyone in this area,at their peak in the 60’s,they ran about 25 lorries,nearly all Fodens with the exception being an Albion and a ERF.
Cheers Dave.
A few more of Sharples
Bewick:
I am sure that if my great Grandad Thomas and my great uncle John came back I could persuade them of the error of their ways for running Fodens!!! Bewick.
Ironically my Grand Dad drove a steam Foden too.My Dad told me that he preferred it to the team of horses he had before that 
.If he’d have lived to see it he’d have liked to have seen these ex DOT ones which were based at Kent County Council.I drove the same type for Surrey CC when they were new and they still seem good enough to be up to the job.Probably because they were fitted with Rolls engines not Gardners. and unlike up North when it snows down here it really snows.
Some more of Sharples.
One of Stan Robinson’s.
