Foden.

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...G'day Hayseed,ta for 'tidying'up this thread...guess it digressed a little...all good though. plenty of 'chappies' got fondest of memories steer'in (or try'in to) these ol lorries....

Many years ago there was a company in Penrith NSW that used a lot of Fodens, either P&R Roberts or P.R. Roberts. There slogan was "Roberts for roads". I can also remember a few old, retired from road duty, Fodens in the old BM&G quarry at Castlereagh NSW.

Gday Giddy just noticed the front corner by the way just noticed ya left ya windas down

....Copy that '82moveover' Where ya been 'ol m8...? Had a bird on your aireal??...Something else in that "first pic,regarding truck advertised" that you & others hav'nt picked/commented on...Put ya 'bifocals' on & CSI it m8... . Overnite,big 10-4rr regarding Peter Roberts,this truck was previously owned by him. 'Regentville' just off Mulgoa rd.(Penrith) was where the yard was....

is that you wavin to me after blowin ya bathroom windas out

....Ha,ha '82...knew you'd come thru...Yes m8,lets see if any of the other 'truckers' on channel can guess what we carry'in on about.... :.

Giddy, I thought it may have been ex Roberts.

Just on those early Fodens, way back when (pre BMG & BMI), Australian Blue Metal had a mixture of Fodens, think they were painted blue or blue/grey, someone will correct me here).

I remember them operating out of Wallgrove I think it was, they had a few 8 wheelers with extremely long steel tipper bodies on them, but very low sides. May have even been manual steering. Worked for an earthmoving mob who bought one ex-company, still painted their colours. Ripped the tipper body off it and jammed a water tank on it to make a cart for watering roads on subdivisions. Didn't have to fill her all that often, big tank! But what a handful to try and do a ten point u-turn when spraying! Wouldn't even like to guess what they would have tared out in original tipper configuration, but seemed to have a massive chassis, maybe even ten inches deep. Suppose would have been general Foden spec at the time, 6LX Gardiner, David Brown gearbox etc. Don't recall what diffs (huge) maybe even Kirkstall's?

Again, and I don't mind being corrected, but didn't some of the early power steering models run some sort of air assist on the steering? Or, I could be getting confused with some of the early Erfydindes (ERF'S)

Maybe a few old timers could add a bit, may even have an old photo or two to post?

Cheers, Dave 64