FODEN CAB MODELS:-
Foden W2,1932-1935.
Foden S2 Airstream Streamlined Cab,1935-1937.
Foden S9,1936-1938.
Foden S10,1938-1948.DG range cab.Also OG models.
Foden S15,1937-1948.OG.
S18 Flat Front,1948 - 1951.FE Two Stroke,FG.
S18 V-Front,1951-1957.FE Two Stroke,FG.
Foden S19,1948-1957.OG.
Foden FE4/8 Two Stroke Lorry model Cab,built by Boalloy,1952-1956.
Foden Half Cab,1953-1980.Dump Trucks.
Foden Twin Cabs,Crane Carrier,1960-1963.
Foden Low-Line full-width Cab,Crane Carrier,1963-1972.
Foden S20,1956 - 1968.
Foden S21 Spaceship Sputnik,1958-1969.
Foden S22 Tropical Spaceship Sputnik.Standard width? Mainly export.
Foden S23 Tropical Spaceship Sputnik,narrow? Mainly Export.
Foden S24 Sabrina Tilt,1962 -1967.
Foden S29 Tropical. Tropical version of the S20. Mainly export.
Foden S30 Sabrina Tilt ,1966-1967.Pre-production version of the S34 Sabrina Tilt.
Foden S34 Sabrina Tilt,1967-1970. 8 ft,2.5 in wide.
Foden S35 Sabrina Tilt,1967-1970.8 ft wide.Export.
Foden S36 Sabrina Fixed,1967-1970. 8 ft,2.5 in wide.
Foden S37 Sabrina Fixed,1967-1970. 8 ft wide.Export.
Foden S38 Sabrina Fixed,1970-1980.8 ft wide. Two windscreens.Export.
Foden S39 Sabrina Fixed,1970-1980.8 ft,2.5 in wide.Two windscreens.
Foden S40.Motor Panels MkIII Cab.1968-1977.
Foden S41,with extended front end. Motor Panels MkIII Cab.1968-1977.
Foden S50 Half Cab,1969-1972.For on-highway tipper lorries.
Foden S51 Half Cab,1971-1979.For dumptrucks.
Foden S55 Half Cab,1979-1980.For dumptrucks.
Foden S60 Full Cab version of the S50,1970-1972.
Foden S70 Full Cab GRP version of the steel S60,1970-1972.
Foden S80,1973-1978,Mk1 into 1976,Mk2 1976-1978.
Foden S81,1974-1978.Fitted to 6x4 tractive units,it had an extended front grille panel.
Foden S83,1975-1979.
Foden S85,1978-1983.Based on the S83 and fitted to gritter-snowplough lorries.
Foden S90 Universal day,Universal sleeper,Super Haulmaster day,Civilian version,1976-1979.
Foden S90 Military version,1974-1983.
Foden S93,1978-1979.Haulmaster tractive unit.
Foden S95,1978-1980,Fleetmaster.
Foden S10 Mk1,Mk2,1978-1983.Fleetmaster and Haulmaster.
Foden S10 Mk3,1983-1997.Civilian and military versions.
Foden S10 Mk4,1987-1995.4000-Series and 3000-Series.
Foden S10 Mk5,1995-2001.
Foden S10 Narrow,1990-1998.Mk1 2000-Series,3000-Series.
Mk 2 2000-Series,3000-Series.
Alpha Mk1,1998-2002.
Alpha Mk2,2002-2006.
Foden had 48 differant standard production cabs from 1932 to 2006 ,plus those listed below
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Other cabs:-
Bowyer,late 1950s-early 1960s.Looked similar to the S20.
Certain other Fodens for the British market also had non-standard cabs.
Durimin Redhill,FE and FG models for Portland Blue Circle Cement.
Many export Fodens had locally produced and styled cabs.
Delta Cab,for the Australian market.
NOTE:The Foden Sabrina Cabs should not be confused with the ERF Sabrina model .There are plenty of references to Foden S24 Sabrina,S34 Sabrina,S36 Sabrina and S39 Sabrina Cabs on the Internet,including page 19 on this Foden Thoughts Thread
:- TruckNetUK confirms the Foden Sabrina name at the top of page 19,“by Sepo » Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:12 pm when growimg up this model was always remarked to as the Sabrina cab… ERF also used the name on one of there rigid models with a bonnet on.”
And kindly includes a photograph of his father’s Foden S39 Sabrina 4AXB6/32 4x2 Articulated Lorry,ONE 347H,operated by Claribel Carriers,of Manchester.
And in my two posts on page 19,I comprehensively explain all the facts about the Foden Sabrina name .
As it has been pointed out several times by wise people,just because you have never heard of the Foden Sabrina name(it’s no big deal),does not mean to say that nobody else has heard of it,and indeed, uses the Foden Sabrina name!!! It wasn’t universal,it was used in certain areas of the UK - and on the fairgrounds!
- but,as the wise people correctly say:The Internet is breaking down all the information barriers,so the Foden Sabrina name is becoming far better known!
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RENÉE PILOT.
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Evening all,
Quite an exhaustive piece of research RENEE, may I ask that you clearly identify your sources, particularly as on your tabulation you attribute the nonclemature “Sabrina” against the Foden S24/S39 cabs, indicating, (perhaps eroniously), that this was a model name.
Likewise the nonclemature “Spaceship Sputnik”, against the S21/S23 cabs.
Are you perhaps confusing a “local” nickname for a particular cab variant, and by “slipping this in” to be an actual Foden model in your tabulation, creating potential confusion for interested parties, who may view these forums long after our demise!. For if nothing else Messers Fodens deserve accurate reporting of their designs, and also of their achievements.
Perhaps universally the “industry” termed the S21 type cab, as the “Micky Mouse”, a term of endearment, due to its visual similarity to Mr Disneys cartoon character. But this was a colloquial name, as I presume your assertion that “Sabrina”, applies to the later S34/36 models, but not, and this is the crux of my disagrement with your post, a Foden derived name.
In support of my argument, I would cite Foden publication 14.4.64, Artic and Heavy Haulage Tractor Units, 20/80tons, and Foden Publication, 24.6.65. Standard Range of Goods Vehicles 14/16ton 4wheel, 20/22ton 6wheel, 24/28ton 8wheel. Both can be read in conjunction with Foden Publication 23.4.65. This latter showing illustrations of no less than 11 cab variants, (7, S34/36, 1, S20, 1, s21, and 1 each S50 and 51.) In no case , in any publication is any cab described other than,“Tilt Cab”, or “Rigid mounted cab, Tilt cab styling”, and described as having “construction throughout of Fibreglass,which in itself is resistant to moisture, Termites etc” (yow do get many o them in Bilston, me mate)!!
Now I am no expert on Foden, the manufacturer, or its products. There are many who contribute to these forums who have forgotten more about Foden than I have learned. And I would welcome their comments, knowledge and and experiences on this particular subject.
For my own part I drove Fodens as a young man, S18, S20, S21, S34, S36, mainly with Gardner power, LK, LW, LX., 5 and 12speed, (mechanical, and air split). Both here in the UK, and in Europe. Later on in life, I was fortunate to mix with and meet many Foden staff members, from all areas of the company, all professional in whatever discipline they worked within. The only way that I ever recall any cab being refered to was by its numeric code, apart from the S21 series, again the “warm” term Micky Mouse being used.
Now if we move onto “Showland” For several decades I have been friends with the Jones family from Birmingham, and in particular Jimmy Jones who owned Stadium Commercials in Perry Bar. I could not even begin to calculate how many Foden lorries have passed between us!! All models, (some good, others perhaps less so). But never have I heard Jimmy, or his family ever refer to any Foden as a “Sabrina”! My only regret with Jimmy, was not taking up his offer to sell me the (perhaps only), remaining ex BSR Foden S20 integral van that sat in his yard for years.
Thinking about it I have never heard his father in law, Barry Sanson from Walsall a big Foden man, or Jimmys brother in law , Marcus, (Cromwell Commercials), or Oscar Johnson, Horace Kendrick, the genial Wood Brothers from Sittingbourne, Arthur Slater, (Tilling Group), Bob Anscombe down in Kent, or legions of other Foden men, ever refer to a S34/S36, as a “Sabrina”.
But that is not to say that in another part of the country “locals” may have used the term…but its not universal, either in use, or recognition. So should not be put alongside “Factory” model references, unless it is clearly stated as a regional “nick name”.
Cheerio for now.