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Showing posts with label Foden Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foden Society. Show all posts

Sunday, 15 November 2015

Foden S18 FG6/15

This is a lorry entered in the class for 'Commercial Vehicles over 3 tons' at the Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in September 1993 at Heaton Park, Manchester.
It's a 1950 Foden S18 FG6/15 and the programme of the event said this about the vehicle:

Foden FG6/15  1950                                         ODH 255
Entered by D Scholey, Skipton
This Gardner-engined Foden has a 12 speed gearbox.

Foden trucks ceased production in July 2006 but The Foden Society has a great deal of information about the marque.

Wednesday, 5 August 2015

Foden S20

This is one of the entries in the Commercial Vehicles over 3 tons, Class G, at the Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.
It's a 1961 Foden S20 and the programme of the event had this information about it:

G6          Foden S20, 1961                                                                                  763 BWA
                Entered by W.H.Church, Keighley
                Owned until 1974 by a Sheffield steelworks and then by R Church, a travelling
                showman, until 1990. Fully restored as a showman's vehicle.

The Foden Society is 'An independent society dedicated to the study and preservation of Foden products from 1856 to date'.