Frank Latorre's Foden in Truckin' Life, Nov '09

Huppypuppy and JnrMack,

Thanks for the info. This all jogged my rusty memory - I'm pretty certain the Japanese got some licence rights from Krupp for their 2 strokers way back in the 1950s and improved (?) on the original design (and, of course, the Germans never had a V8 on offer).

That's a Krupp:




By the way, the first UD trucks looked very much like the Krupps. The 6 cyl. Krupp (which was really two 3 cyl. units joined together back to back, with two seperate Bosch injection pumps) was about 8L in size and had 210 hp.

That's a Krupp Titan with the 6. Truck is well known in these parts and was superbly restored over 10 years:



(two last pics from Wikipedia).

Who desgned the Foden engine? Must have been an outside job - Foden before that used to buy all their engines, did they not ?

Cheers,

T