tarboat's photos with the keyword: foden

The closed Newbridge Quarry at Pickering had this Foden tanker parked up looking sad and with no work to do. I suspect this is a former military vehicle.

Another photo of the Foden 4 ton capacity wagon on demonstration during 1918 and seen in the yard of George Fryer's joinery works in Hazel Grove. It appears that Fryer did not purchase the wagon and it was sold to a business in Barmouth at the beginning of 1919. George Fryer never had a brickworks in Hazel Grove although he did operate brickworks at Tenement Lane, Bramhall and also in adjacent Adswood. They say the camera cannot lie, but this image could certainly be misleading.

One of my favourite buses at the 2015 Potteries Transport Rally and Running Day was this former Coppenhall's of Sandbach Foden PVFE6 belonging to Malcolm Sample. The Metalcraft bodywork was built in Newcastle-under-Lyme for this lovely 1948 vehicle.

"Coal" in July 1954. This machine looks similar to those featured in the 1970 ad, but is significantly smaller.

Foden dump trucks in an advert from Mines and Mineral Engineering, Sept 1970. These vehicles look both small and rather dated compared with modern vehicles. The photo seems to have been taken at the Craigahulliar (sometimes written as Craignahulliar) quarry located 3km SE of Portrush. It was worked by Portrush Columnar Basalt Company Ltd. until the 1980s and has subsequently been used as a refuse tip.

Part of the Earle's Cement fleet of Foden lorries lined up for a group photograph at Hope cement works in 1939.

A brand new steam wagon for Sneyd Collieries Ltd, simmers outside the Foden works in Sandbach. The Cheshire registration indicates that the year is 1918.

This one is a bit of a puzzle as I cannot definitely locate the brickworks of George Fryer in Hazel Grove. The only candidate is that at Norbury Moor so I can only surmise that this was his at the time. The Foden steam lorry was first registered in 1918 so the photo is post WW1. Fryer was operating from Tenement Lane brickworks in Cheadle Hulme in the late 1920s and this was absorbed into the J & A Jackson group c1929.

Spotted whilst turning the car round at Shawforth near Bacup.

The constant stream of stone lorries on the A6 through Dove Holes still contains a good number of Foden built wagons. The numbers are dwindling though and I thought I would grab a shot of one passing by. Of course then all I saw were Scania and Volvo and after giving up this one appeared just as I was putting the camera away. In the ensuing fluster I managed to knock the switch to manual and horribly overexpose the shot. I have pulled a bit back in PS and that will have to do for today.

A recent ebay book purchase yielded a number of photographs of commercial vehicles around the Manchester, Runcorn and Liverpool areas. This is the state of the art tipper for 1961. I shall have to leave identification of the model to those with more expertise.

Foden diesel lorry operated by Earle's Cement. Location probably somewhere in the Derbyshire Peak District. I would welcome any details about the lorry.

Classic funfair truck and ride.