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Nice one of the Sharples Albion Dave, drove a few of them for Ameys years ago.
cheers
John.
Collected a load of old photo’s off Jean Sharples today John, will post them on here over the next week, once Ive sorted them into oldest first.
Cheers Dave.
Well done Dave love to see them mate.
cheers
john.
One of Sharples of Eardisley’s fleet of Foden artics, this one is on a E plate, these were often run night and day on steel.
Another of Sharples Fodens, this time a J reg seen at their Eardisley yard.
An L reg Foden at the yard. Dennis Sharples purchased his first ne lorry eighty four years ago in 1935.
This is one of the models with the newer single windscreen.
Another of Sharples fine fleet of Fodens.This F reg was run at the time when they were running a lot of trucks. They were very big Foden fans, right up until Foden finished.
I think that the “L” reg Foden may have been recabbed Dave as the single screen S34 and S36 cab was superceeded by the twin screen S39 cab. We had one which had a smash and we fitted a spare single screen cab to it, the driver wasn’t too pleased as the earlier cab’s had no rooflining or trim so were bare fibreglass, ice on the inside of the roof and cab rear in winter and like a sauna in summer! Al least Sharples had proper trucks to do the work with.
Pete.
This is a 1989 Foden 4000 we bought s/h about 1994 she had a 300 CAT with a jake and a 13 speed Eaton box.She carried a genuine 17t, she earnt us good money as we were quite busy the 6 years I drove it. We still use it to carry our asphalt paver with a hooklift set up
Sharples Foden BVJ 831L @ Snows Bristol 1991
Nice pic’s again Dave, good to see the Sharples motors again. 
Hi pursy
That 89 4000 really looks the business, what a nice looking truck.
thanks dave for taking the the trouble for sharing these pics
Been out tonight gents, got plenty more of Sharples to put on here.
One of Sharples Foden eight wheeler tippers used for hauling sand to steelworks, carrying coils out from the steelworks, fitted with a false floor and a coil well.
L Reg Foden artic, loaded with pipes outside Sharples Eardisley garage. Most of these Fodens units had tipping gear for pulling tipping trailers on the sand- steel runs .
Another picture of driver John Williams artic taken in the yard.
Sharples F Reg taken from a different angle.
Eight legger Foden in Sharples yard waiting to take a load of sand to one of the South Wales Steelworks.
An H reg Foden artic of Sharples, again with the single windscreen, I remember this lorry well, because of th RED number. They did have a couple of very bad smashes, but from memory I think it would have been before they had these, will check with John Williams, one of their long serving drivers, now retired.
Another of RED 65H parked in the yard, with alloy tippng trailer, used on the sand/steel work.