Always thought these Fodens had so much character about them ! Unlike all the modern stuff.
Bedford TM.
These Roman trucks must have been more popular than i remember i think thats the 3rd one.
Spanish Dodge.
Day cab Maggie.
Foden.
Maggie,looks heavy.
Tidy bedford TM day cab.
Your being spoilt BonkeyDollocks ! 
Another day cab Crusader.
Excellent shots once again Deano ! But just a perfectly innocent observation as these shots were taken in the South it just goâs to show that vehicle buying tastes during those years were completely different from those in the North and Scotland. We bought mainly Premium makes such as Atki/ERF Scania and Volvo whereas many of the motors in the shots are Bedford/Ford/Maggie/Roman etc. Oh! and Scammell Crusaders ! but interesting all the same, well done to Paul for having taken the time to create what is now a time warp ! Cheers Bewick.
BonkeyDollocks:
Very nice half cab S50 ARC in the first batch of this afternoons lot. There wasnât many for ARC I believe so Paul did well to snap that one.And I am inclined to agree with Oiltreaderâs observation that the photos are brilliant. My main interest are quarry tippers but I enjoy seeing all the other vehicles in the shots.
Many many thanks for your continuing efforts in scanning and posting the pics.
Half cab yes brill pic B D Whitwick A R C had 4 drove 1 on nights dry stone to M Keynes for a while , alright I thought but called Animals by everybody
What a marvelous thing Paul has done. The thing we wished weâd done at the time n couldnât be arsed or afford to
Fantastic !
Spoilt indeed! 
the second shot of the ARC half cab, is it the same wagon as the other half cab shot? I reckon it is.
And I spotted the Sed Ak ARC artic. I reckon it could have been an owner driver otherwise the cab would have had the company logos on as well.
Great collection Dean many thanks to you & Paul for posting
Cheers
Ant
Thanks Dean and Paul for the great photos, any more of Bakers of Southampton? Excellent shot of Bakers Volvo F89 and top timing, Jimski has just finished building a model of this very truck for me, which my uncle, Phil Dibden used to drive!
Willie Roadstar:
Great collection Dean many thanks to you & Paul for postingCheers
Ant
My sentiments exactly ,love the Philpots TM ,they had a few with Detroit motors ,thanks regards Keith .
ERF-NGC-European:
DEANB:
Todays pics, starting off with some ââ â â â â for Robert !When the trucks are stood still the photos are fantastic for quality !
Too right!!
Those pics of the ERF parked up are perfect for me,you feel that you could be stood there in real
life looking at them !
Bewick:
Excellent shots once again Deano ! But just a perfectly innocent observation as these shots were taken in the South it just goâs to show that vehicle buying tastes during those years were completely different from those in the North and Scotland. We bought mainly Premium makes such as Atki/ERF Scania and Volvo whereas many of the motors in the shots are Bedford/Ford/Maggie/Roman etc. Oh! and Scammell Crusaders ! but interesting all the same, well done to Paul for having taken the time to create what is now a time warp ! Cheers Bewick.
Intresting observation Dennis, i would not have said the Ford transcons were not premium motors ? Bedfordâs were probably the most common trucks back then. The TK and TL were money making trucks,simple,easy to
repair,cheap to repair,and cheap to run. They could make you good money . The maggies semmed to have a
strong following just by the numbers that Paul took photos of,plus as a kid i can remember seeing loads of
them about. I dont know Dennis,but maybe they were cheap to buy â â The Crusaders and Romans i dont know
that much about. I believe the Romans were basically Mans,but someone else may know for sureâŚ
coomsey:
BonkeyDollocks:
Very nice half cab S50 ARC in the first batch of this afternoons lot. There wasnât many for ARC I believe so Paul did well to snap that one.And I am inclined to agree with Oiltreaderâs observation that the photos are brilliant. My main interest are quarry tippers but I enjoy seeing all the other vehicles in the shots.
Many many thanks for your continuing efforts in scanning and posting the pics.
Half cab yes brill pic B D Whitwick A R C had 4 drove 1 on nights dry stone to M Keynes for a while , alright I thought but called Animals by everybody
Cant really remember them coomsey,but must have been a bit tight for storing your personal bits and bobs
you take to work. Would imagine that they were pretty rare â â ?
coomsey:
What a marvelous thing Paul has done. The thing we wished weâd done at the time n couldnât be arsed or afford to
Fantastic !
Indeed i mentioned it before ! It was expensive back then having films developed ! Paul did develop
his own black and white pics, but had to pay for the colour ones and obviously the films. He must have
spent a fortune !
BonkeyDollocks:
Spoilt indeed!And I spotted the Sed Ak ARC artic. I reckon it could have been an owner driver otherwise the cab would have had the company logos on as well.
Same lorry chap ! Dont remember a Sed Ak ,but there was a Transcon !
Willie Roadstar:
Great collection Dean many thanks to you & Paul for postingCheers
Ant
Thanks Ant, Paul will be pleased that so many people are enjoying them. !
LR Man:
Thanks Dean and Paul for the great photos, any more of Bakers of Southampton? Excellent shot of Bakers Volvo F89 and top timing, Jimski has just finished building a model of this very truck for me, which my uncle, Phil Dibden used to drive!
LR MAN, There were some earlier in the thread i think ! I am sure there will be more pics of Bakers as
hopefully there are a lot more pics to come ! By the way a cracking model !
kingswinford kit:
Willie Roadstar:
Great collection Dean many thanks to you & Paul for postingCheers
AntMy sentiments exactly ,love the Philpots TM ,they had a few with Detroit motors ,thanks regards Keith
.
Thanks for the comments, Keith.
Starting with a Borderer.
Datsuns 88
Another Roman.
Tidy 88 ,but should have a sun visor on it makes them look so much better !
Big transcon.
Mercedes, That cab lasted them years,although the steering wheels were too big !
Day cab crusader
Day cab ERF,with huge gap between rear of cab and trailer.
Fair play to Paul ,another 88 ! 
Seddon Atkinson, same company as 88 above.
hi all,
i am loving these evocative images,every day it gets better and better.thanks for sharing.
regards andrew.
Foden.
Day cab Foden
Marathon.
Transcon
Berliet i think â â
A lot of Fodens about this day.
ERF
Guy big J
Another Berliet,fairly local to me that company.
Mercedes
I know all you lads appreciate that these photos are all PRE digital and there has been a lot of expense accumulating the collection âŚa lot of stuff just disappears without the enthusiasts ⌠think of all the things most of us have seen but no camera â â ?
What a great collection ⌠parking up now !!!
DEANB:
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Mercedes, That cab lasted them years,although the steering wheels were too big !
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That big steering wheel was the best thing about those NGs - loved 'em! lol. After that, the Germanâs dropped their long-standing legislation that all commercials should have big enough steering wheels to get the driver home in the event of power-assistance failure. It was a good common-sense rule: Iâm only a little chap but I got an MAN home from Belgium with no power-steering one day because the big wheel enabled me to - and saved a fortune! Robert
Hey DEANB,nice kick off with that lot with the Issac Caswell Borderer . He had a big immaculate fleet and his Borderers were the finest in S Wales ,thanks again for some superb stuff,regards Keith .
DEANB:
ERF-NGC-European:
DEANB:
Todays pics, starting off with some ââ â â â â for Robert !When the trucks are stood still the photos are fantastic for quality !
Too right!!
Those pics of the ERF parked up are perfect for me,you feel that you could be stood there in real
life looking at them !Bewick:
Excellent shots once again Deano ! But just a perfectly innocent observation as these shots were taken in the South it just goâs to show that vehicle buying tastes during those years were completely different from those in the North and Scotland. We bought mainly Premium makes such as Atki/ERF Scania and Volvo whereas many of the motors in the shots are Bedford/Ford/Maggie/Roman etc. Oh! and Scammell Crusaders ! but interesting all the same, well done to Paul for having taken the time to create what is now a time warp ! Cheers Bewick.Intresting observation Dennis, i would not have said the Ford transcons were not premium motors ? Bedfordâs were probably the most common trucks back then. The TK and TL were money making trucks,simple,easy to
repair,cheap to repair,and cheap to run. They could make you good money . The maggies semmed to have a
strong following just by the numbers that Paul took photos of,plus as a kid i can remember seeing loads of
them about. I dont know Dennis,but maybe they were cheap to buy â â The Crusaders and Romans i dont know
that much about. I believe the Romans were basically Mans,but someone else may know for sureâŚcoomsey:
BonkeyDollocks:
Very nice half cab S50 ARC in the first batch of this afternoons lot. There wasnât many for ARC I believe so Paul did well to snap that one.And I am inclined to agree with Oiltreaderâs observation that the photos are brilliant. My main interest are quarry tippers but I enjoy seeing all the other vehicles in the shots.
Many many thanks for your continuing efforts in scanning and posting the pics.
Half cab yes brill pic B D Whitwick A R C had 4 drove 1 on nights dry stone to M Keynes for a while , alright I thought but called Animals by everybody
Cant really remember them coomsey,but must have been a bit tight for storing your personal bits and bobs
you take to work. Would imagine that they were pretty rare â â ?
Better men than I will tell you how many Dean! Drove loads of lorries that I never went anywhere near the jockey seat. Tipper work mostly local n snap bag behind seat as long, as youâd got somewhere for your flask top 1\2cab fine. Forgot you, thanks for your work putting up such fine picscoomsey:
What a marvelous thing Paul has done. The thing we wished weâd done at the time n couldnât be arsed or afford to
Fantastic !Indeed i mentioned it before ! It was expensive back then having films developed ! Paul did develop
his own black and white pics, but had to pay for the colour ones and obviously the films. He must have
spent a fortune !
DEANB:
Half cab yes brill pic B D Whitwick A R C had 4 drove 1 on nights dry stone to M Keynes for a while , alright I thought but called Animals by everybody
Cant really remember them coomsey,but must have been a bit tight for storing your personal bits and bobs
you take to work. Would imagine that they were pretty rare ?â â
They were not THAT rare, at Tilcon our depot alone had around 20+ of them (tippers and powder tankers) and there were many more nationwide based at other quarries. Not a bad truck, you could just squeeze two people in the cab which we sometimes had to do on breakdowns but it was tight! Ivonbrook Quarries had a few as well locally, also ARC had a lot of tippers and mixers (ex St Ives Sand and Gravel I believe) but fitted with the âdumperâ type of half cab instead.
Pete.
Once again DEANB thanks for posting these superb photos. On the F88 agree that they do look better with the sun visor fitted. On that note remember when mating for Stevens running over Scammonden dam on the M62 a lorry passed us and when passed sudden wind gust blew visor slamming it back onto roof. I do remember driver saying it had happened before, and also another of Stevens F88 same problem smashing that one ,so was removed and never refitted. Just wondering if other drivers on here had same problem?
windrush:
DEANB:
Half cab yes brill pic B D Whitwick A R C had 4 drove 1 on nights dry stone to M Keynes for a while , alright I thought but called Animals by everybodyCant really remember them coomsey,but must have been a bit tight for storing your personal bits and bobs
you take to work. Would imagine that they were pretty rare ?â âThey were not THAT rare, at Tilcon our depot alone had around 20+ of them (tippers and powder tankers) and there were many more nationwide based at other quarries. Not a bad truck, you could just squeeze two people in the cab which we sometimes had to do on breakdowns but it was tight! Ivonbrook Quarries had a few as well locally, also ARC had a lot of tippers and mixers (ex St Ives Sand and Gravel I believe) but fitted with the âdumperâ type of half cab instead.
Pete.
Hi Pete, donât recall any later than J reg n only Foden, would that be right?
Ideal for tipper work most lorries I drove never went anywhere near the passenger seat. N you could get to nearside window always a game on hot days on the road.Plenty of room for flask n snap.
Was there any payload gain? Paul
LR Man:
Thanks Dean and Paul for the great photos, any more of Bakers of Southampton? Excellent shot of Bakers Volvo F89 and top timing, Jimski has just finished building a model of this very truck for me, which my uncle, Phil Dibden used to drive!
Fantastic model, the man has a gift indeed.
I remember when it was draged back from a water dyke, might have been France, and it needed a shovel to get the mud out from inside the cab before it could be put back together again, Eric was so relaxed about it I could not believe it. In my earley days knowing Mr Baker he would have gone loopy. Harvey
