One heading out of a wet Gaydon.
Another one loaded for home.
Another one waiting to load.
Still loading them up at Gaydon.
This bloke had fun and games getting this Dodge up onto the low-loader in the mud and rain,he did manage eventually.
I thought that one was driving home Dave as we saw it up by the gate on the way out. It sounded nice…
Muckaway:
I thought that one was driving home Dave as we saw it up by the gate on the way out. It sounded nice…
It was a V8 Perkins or ■■■■■■■ Nathan,he had about three goes to get it up on the trailer,fair play it was wet and greasy,he could have easily had that unit arse over head.
Cheers Dave.
I asked my Uncle what he thought of McGoverns S39 6wheeler; Reminded him of the wheelie puller he had on Smiths 
Muckaway:
I asked my Uncle what he thought of McGoverns S39 6wheeler; Reminded him of the wheelie puller he had on Smiths
My mate drove an identical Foden to that one,he thought the world of the lorry,it would go anywhere.A lot of drivers didn’t like them,and they were nicknamed the Pig,but they were a good reliable workhorse.
Cheers Dave.
That McGovern one must’ve been one of the last-on a T plate wasn’t it? I heard that cab stayed in production for so long due to Fodens’ money troubles…
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That McGovern one must’ve been one of the last-on a T plate wasn’t it? I heard that cab stayed in production for so long due to Fodens’ money troubles…
C W Griffiths had one on a T plate Nathan,but they never kept it long.The Haulmaster was out on a V plate,as several quarry operators up this way had them.
Cheers Dave.
I think the Haul/Fleetmasters were introduced by Paccar. I can never remember which way around, but one was a split screen, the other a single piece. When Dad got his first Foden in '86 (the one Windrush drove after Smiths sold it) I remember asking him “does it have the cross windows?” For some reason the split screens fascinated me as a 7 year old 
Muckaway:
I think the Haul/Fleetmasters were introduced by Paccar. I can never remember which way around, but one was a split screen, the other a single piece. When Dad got his first Foden in '86 (the one Windrush drove after Smiths sold it) I remember asking him “does it have the cross windows?”
It was strange that they reverted to split windscreens as late as that.Personally I never liked the split windscreen,it was around on some vehicles years ago,but as Foden had been building lorries with a single screen some years before,it seemed a backward step to go and put them in a newer vehicle.
Cheers Dave.
I think the split screen was aimed at the tipper market so it’d be cheaper to replace a smaller cracked screen than complete one.
A well known American motor in the background.
A closer look at Andrew’s Peterbilt.
Dave the Renegade:
A closer look at Andrew’s Peterbilt.
Photos don’t do it justice Dave in real life It’s the bogs dollocks, I have never seen one only in photos and films, I sat in that and I didn’t want to get out of it, looking down that long long bonnet trying to imagen the places it had been in the States, I think Andrew said it ran into Canada. It’s a real credit to Andrew.
cheers
John.
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Dave the Renegade:
A closer look at Andrew’s Peterbilt.Photos don’t do it justice Dave in real life It’s the bogs dollocks, I have never seen one only in photos and films, I sat in that and I didn’t want to get out of it, looking down that long long bonnet trying to imagen the places it had been in the States, I think Andrew said it ran into Canada. It’s a real credit to Andrew.
cheers
John.
We couldn’t get a good pic of it John,as it was raining.Tracy took that one out of the van window.I did have more of a look at it at Carmarthen last year when it was a fine day.Andrew had the doors and front open,so we had a good look then.
Cheers Dave.
Most of the lorries from this section of the show had gone,or were leaving by the time we had a look.
Alex Anderson’s loaded for home.