The one that your Grandad drove would have been that scale model one which you sit on,you know the one that turns up at steam gatherings and the Kids sit on the little trailer! Look Carryfast apart from the first line of your post the rest of it is incoherent drivel----hasn’t Nursey been round the Ward yet and administered the nightly dose of horse tranquelizer. Nursey! nursey! the syringe and quick!!! Cheers Bewick.
Foden steamers courtesy of Roy Morgan.
Roy’s own Foden Ballast tractor.
Bewick:
The one that your Grandad drove would have been that scale model one which you sit on,you know the one that turns up at steam gatherings and the Kids sit on the little trailer! Look Carryfast apart from the first line of your post the rest of it is incoherent drivel----hasn’t Nursey been round the Ward yet and administered the nightly dose of horse tranquelizer. Nursey! nursey! the syringe and quick!!! Cheers Bewick.
Blimey you’ll be saying that anyone who says that Fodens originally (rightly) preferred the idea of a steam powered truck to a Gardner powered one should be sectioned next. 
gunnerheskey:
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…!
Would this 8 wheeler have had a 150LX engine rather than a 180LXB? or is this just a bit of “badge engineering” Bewick.
Bewick:
gunnerheskey:
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…!
Would this 8 wheeler have had a 150LX engine rather than a 180LXB? or is this just a bit of “badge engineering” Bewick.
Hi Dennis,
A firm I worked for had a new ERF eight legger on a F plate in 1968,that had a Gardner 150 and grossed 24 ton,payload 15 ton.
Cheers Dave.
Some of C W Griffiths & Sons Fodens.
Clarence Griffiths with one of his lorries
Paul & Clarence Griffiths.
Some more from C W Griffiths.
If I end up exiled to your neck of the woods I know who to apply for a job with judging from those Griffiths trucks ,Dave! 
Muckaway:
If I end up exiled to your neck of the woods I know who to apply for a job with judging from those Griffiths trucks ,Dave!
They still have one Foden left Nathan,a Cat 450 eight legger,all the rest are Volvo’s now.
Cheers Dave.
It’s about time the steamers had another chance. It was perhaps unfortunate that the internal combustion engine was invented when it was because I believe that the steam engine could have been developed to a point where it would have been far superior but cheap oil and obstructive governments pushed steam out of sight.
A few more from C W Griffiths.
One taken by Commercial Moter,with Paul Griffiths driving.
More pics to your usual standards Dave, by the way, I urge anyone who’s not already, to read the pro driver thread titled xxxxxxxxxxx. Opinions from the proud old hands would be very interesting…
Muckaway:
More pics to your usual standards Dave, by the way, I urge anyone who’s not already, to read the pro driver thread titled xxxxxxxxxxx. Opinions from the proud old hands would be very interesting…
All these pics are already on the Welsh Border thread Nathan,will have another look at the xxxxxxxx thread.
Cheers Dave.
This is the way to deliver containers, no cissy extras.
Dave the Renegade:
Muckaway:
More pics to your usual standards Dave, by the way, I urge anyone who’s not already, to read the pro driver thread titled xxxxxxxxxxx. Opinions from the proud old hands would be very interesting…All these pics are already on the Welsh Border thread Nathan,will have another look at the xxxxxxxx thread.
Cheers Dave.
The xxxxx threads been removed now
Muckaway:
Dave the Renegade:
Muckaway:
More pics to your usual standards Dave, by the way, I urge anyone who’s not already, to read the pro driver thread titled xxxxxxxxxxx. Opinions from the proud old hands would be very interesting…All these pics are already on the Welsh Border thread Nathan,will have another look at the xxxxxxxx thread.
Cheers Dave.The xxxxx threads been removed now
did see it yesterday,why have they removed it,must have upset the mods 
A few more from Paul Griffiths.
Dave the Renegade:
A few more from Paul Griffiths.
This one’s got an Oxfordshire registration
hiya,
Bet 2293 PT was an old Salkeld motor they was a quarry owner and haulier from Consett they had quite a sizeable fleet of that model of Foden and that’s a County Durham registration number have a bit of scratch on the bumper and i dare bet red paint shows through.
thanks harry long retired.