There’s a bit on the truck blog about was it a 450 or 500 ?
Dan mine was a 450 but I changed the numbers round to 540 caused a stir or two round Europe.Interestingly got rid of it and 3 Mercs later the
■■■■ thing was still working flat out daily,passed me on many occasions.
Armagedon:
Dan mine was a 450 but I changed the numbers round to 540 caused a stir or two round Europe.Interestingly got rid of it and 3 Mercs later the
■■■■ thing was still working flat out daily,passed me on many occasions.
Hi Armagedon,if you google the reg it comes up with some pics of your truck,there is one showing 540 on grill!,even got copy of invoice for trucks on page
01 Foden Alpha 6x2 3000series 440hp M11 ■■■■■■■■
Ran her on max 44T quarry work and engine bomb proof, 
unfortunatley the “weak” Rockwell 177e axle wasn’t 
mine was 1980 t reg Leyland reiver tipper on muck a way work reliable but slow
had it six years
Armagedon:
Chaversdad I wonder if your Centurion was the one I owned,J981 BYA I think and Harry don’t get tooo excited about an early retirement from
trucking my Maggie has entered her 10th year think I will be scrap before Maggie is.Ah! forgot, my first rig was a left ■■■■■■ 141,Scanias best ever.
mine was J412SHN i think, it was a flat top streamline 450 tag axle, i last saw it on a lowloader heading for Southampton so i imagine its still going strong in Africa or somwhere now
Big Truck:
01 Foden Alpha 6x2 3000series 440hp M11 ■■■■■■■■
Ran her on max 44T quarry work and engine bomb proof,
unfortunatley the “weak” Rockwell 177e axle wasn’t
That’s interesting my Alphas got a 180 on a W reg ,yet my brothers 2 w reg Erf Ec are 177,my Dad’s N regs is a 180 too .
Dan Punchard:
Big Truck:
01 Foden Alpha 6x2 3000series 440hp M11 ■■■■■■■■
Ran her on max 44T quarry work and engine bomb proof,
unfortunatley the “weak” Rockwell 177e axle wasn’tThat’s interesting my Alphas got a 180 on a W reg ,yet my brothers 2 w reg Erf Ec are 177,my Dad’s N regs is a 180 too .
Last ERF i had for internal,at coopers smethwick ex ABH from your way Dan,a T reg i think had a 177,broke halfshaft on them cobbles,what a job getting broken bit out!!
Bugger me i,ve only gone and found it 
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irish lorries:
chaversdad:
Bugger me i,ve only gone and found itThat was for sale on donedeal a few months ago in derry
do you remember what sort of money it was going for ?
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I think its sold now as the truckblog article is dated the end of August and says someone from Lancashire has now bought it
Would say it’s up for sale again seen it for sale a few times now
Dan Punchard:
Big Truck:
01 Foden Alpha 6x2 3000series 440hp M11 ■■■■■■■■
Ran her on max 44T quarry work and engine bomb proof,
unfortunatley the “weak” Rockwell 177e axle wasn’tThat’s interesting my Alphas got a 180 on a W reg ,yet my brothers 2 w reg Erf Ec are 177,my Dad’s N regs is a 180 too .
After a nightmare on half-shafts I swapped 177e over to a Bombproof RW180,
some difference in the size of diff 
94 FL6 with an 11 stall body, kept it for 6 months before swapping the body onto a MAN 19.414, it was everything the Volvo wasn’t, quiet, comfortable and powerful.
Scania 143 tag axle on a L wish I still had her, never let me down in 3 years
84/B Volvo f7
6 wheeler beaver tail plant lorry 070 hiab
113 Scania rear lift unit after that (high cab) Ereg with lowloader
52 plate MAN TGA, cracking truck and very reliable. Unfortunately ended up with a cracked head so traded it for a Scania Topline. What a mistake, nearly bankrupted me!!
Ex-Ryder 1988 Ford Cargo 1817 rigid box van,with sleeper cab and tail lift.Had a ■■■■■■■ V8 in it that wouldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding
Cost me £4000,no VAT as the fellers selling it had lost their VAT number due to some dubious practices involving imported alcohol or something.
No night heater or anything,took me all over Europe for 2 or 3 years,not a single breakdown of any kind whatsoever…can’t say I miss it,due to it’s gutlessness,but it got me going and I had money in my pocket from day one…