Foden 3335
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Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2008-02-10 16:19 |
Its a Foden. possibly a 4000 series maybe 4400? |
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◊ 2008-02-10 16:56 |
This looks more like a rigid 8-wheeler (simple truck) not a tractor-trailer unit? |
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◊ 2008-02-11 10:37 |
It is an eight wheel stock truck with an eight wheel trailer. It belongs to Wareings of Methven, Canterbury. The same truck is probably still in the fleet. |
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◊ 2008-06-08 10:19 |
Email sent .gif ";)") |
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◊ 2014-04-02 12:33 |
3000 series in UK , More specifically a 3335. Pre Alpha range with Fodens own cab not DAFs . Which looked better on Fodens than the DAFS which were they designed for .gif ":)") ![[Image: 4463893981_a0f12c7c8f_z.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/3808/4463893981_a0f12c7c8f_z.jpg) -- Last edit: 2014-04-02 16:29:08 |
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◊ 2014-04-02 14:17 |
Can it be labelled as "extinct"?  At our SCO-trips I'm looking, how many UK-origin trucks and commercial vehicles are still visible - in the last 2,3 years it was nearly nothing any more, during 2 weeks -and we drive across the country and don't just stay in our cottage- maybe a dozen, not more. And the most of these spotted Foden and ERF (Scammell is really extinct) are locally used dump- or roadwork-trucks, at least no long-distance trucks at all. |
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◊ 2014-04-02 14:46 |
Its all over for British trucks Ingo  , of the last two British names ( excluding Dennis who make only a few special pupose trucks ) Foden went in 2006 and ERF about 2007 .These are now fast dissapearing from the roads as they are retired from service. -- Last edit: 2014-04-02 14:52:33 |
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◊ 2014-04-02 14:50 |
in contrast german trucks are still alive and kicking !! Britsh mismanagement or something else -- Last edit: 2014-04-02 14:51:00 |
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◊ 2014-04-02 14:52 |
Its madness the government letting the British truck industry go , British army has just bought 7,000 MAN 4X4 trucks for the army , I am guessing these cost around £70k each maybe more , that is £490,000,000 of UK taxpayers money spent on German manufacturing ! -- Last edit: 2014-04-02 14:52:52 |
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◊ 2014-04-02 14:53 |
and we thank them for it  -- Last edit: 2014-04-02 14:54:03 |
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◊ 2014-04-02 14:57 |
My well travelled navy friend says UK is turning into thirld world country and he may be right . One of those countries that makes very little and has to import all its vehicles and machinery . Strangely though we are still one of worlds biggest exporters by value , seventh I think ! -- Last edit: 2014-04-02 14:57:24 |
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◊ 2014-04-02 15:11 |
Lets take some 1963 top selling British vehicles - Triumph Bonneville T120 motorcycles , Mini saloon cars , MGB sports cars , Bedford TK trucks , Land Rover Series 4x4s . All top of their classes on quality, price, service and performance , world could not get enough of them . Fast forward to 1973 what are we making - Triumph Bonneville T120 motorcycles , Mini saloon cars , MGB sports cars , Bedford TK trucks , Land Rover Series 4x4s . The same vehicles , not top of their class any more and often late delivery and poor quality. The world turned elsewhere mainly Japan. I think the striking unions were mostly to blame , they made the businessess unmanageable by anyone and sent customers and investors elsewhere -- Last edit: 2014-04-02 16:30:29 |
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◊ 2014-04-02 15:28 |
Bedford TKs one of my favourites and an export success. Simple to operate and well liked apparently by drivers and operators. GM starved Bedfords of investment and just milked the TK range for years, then too late they realised they were loosing market share in Europe. They then made Luton the "GM-Global Truck Development Centre" for all of two years but it was too late they did not have the personnel experience or resources, so were dumped. The TM cab design was.. well I don't know how to describe it... Relying on the UK Military order for trucks was the last straw. The unions attitudes and striking cannot reasonably be applied to the Vauxhall/Bedford plants from memory they had very few stoppages and I personally can only remember a one-day all plant strike in over thirty years. -- Last edit: 2014-04-02 15:34:56 |
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◊ 2014-04-02 16:03 |
Not saying unions totally to blame , bad management and bad government also had a hand in it. I think one reason GM closed Bedford down was because the stupid government would not sell Land Rover to them due to a silly high profile ' Keep Land Rover British ' campaign by Land Rover owners . I could not believe this at the time because GM Bedford trucks had big hand in winning the war for Britain ! Very ironic in light of Land Rovers future history . -- Last edit: 2014-04-02 16:31:19 |
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◊ 2014-04-02 16:30 |
Not by drivers over five feet eight, who had to drive in the foetal position; and later on fitters hated them due to the lack of a tilt-cab, which was why they lost out to Ford and had to (belatedly, IIRC) produce the TL. But yes, they were sturdy and reliable. |
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◊ 2014-04-02 16:33 |
If TL had been introduced in 1970 instead of 1980 Bedford might have been OK |
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◊ 2014-04-02 16:38 |
I have to agree about management. Mainly the failure to invest for the future when the profits are rolling in on the back of the current product. Rather than improve the product their idea is to cut costs and try to sell cheaper than the competion. The competion on the other hand invests, improves quality and performance on a year-by-year basis. By the time of the Land-Rover deal the GM-Bedford situation was already beyond saving. GM's plans after buying the Land-Rover brand are doubtful and my view is the current owners have proved to be a better stewardship than the case could have been in other hands. |
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◊ 2014-04-02 16:58 |
A perfect storm of bad management , bad government and bad unions . |
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◊ 2014-04-02 22:08 |
As we have right here right now a UK-truck-experts-convent , a demand for fact-checking. About these here mentioned /vehicle.php?id=210817 Leyland Beaver in the DDR, recently I've read the story, that these truck had been a bargain-offer to the DDR for the specific reason, that these trucks had to be flogged, because they had been on a transport-ship, which was sunk in the River Thames  As all of them were LHD, I think, that it's just annother wild phantastic DDR-typical rumour about Western vehicles (which in fact had been a kind of Holy Grail over there)  |
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◊ 2014-04-02 22:18 |
Well at least there was a real maritime incident indeed on the River Thames in the 1960s in which both Leyland vehicles (albeit buses) and a GDR-merchant vessel were involved: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_%28Schiff,_1958%29 |
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◊ 2014-04-02 23:09 |
I've actually read about that ship. According to the book British Buses Around the World by Mike Fenton, the Magdeburg was carrying 42 Leyland Olympic buses with Metro-Cammell bodies en route to Cuba. Some of the buses were salvaged, and a number of them (the book doesn't say) ended up in Australia, where the Bosnjak Bus Group of Sydney had the chassis converted to right hand drive and rebodied by a local coachbuilder. One bus was converted and put into service retaining its original Metro-Cammell body. -- Last edit: 2014-04-02 23:09:27 |
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◊ 2014-04-03 17:01 |
Ah, many thanks for the interesting informations But concerning the Beaver-trucks it seems a mixed-up rumour... |
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◊ 2014-04-05 08:33 |
So can we call truck- 3000 Series ? |
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◊ 2014-10-05 23:31 |
@JCB: today noon I'm back from my SCO-trip. I'd say, that original British trucks are finally extinct. During the last 16 days and roundabout 2000 km on UK-streets (plus a day as a pedestrian in Belfast) I saw: - 5 Dennis (all dump trucks) - 6 Foden (4x tipper, 1x trailer-tractor) - 1 ERF (at the IMCDb-user-meeting with dsl in Ayr) - 0 others, not even a LDV/DAF 400, not any Bedford at all either. Oh, before I forget: 1 Reliant Rialto Van, in use as a decoration-company-car of a garage in Ayr. -- Last edit: 2014-10-05 23:46:26 |
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◊ 2014-10-05 23:37 |
Where did you visit, ingo? |
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◊ 2014-10-05 23:41 |
I saw a J-Reg Bedford/Marshall TL last weekend. |
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◊ 2014-10-05 23:45 |
First week we'd been nearby Eilean Donan Castle (with one trip around Trotternish, two more trips to Skye, one with Link to "www.tripadvisor.co.uk" and one trip to Nessie an Inverness), the second week as the most southerly persons on Scottish ground at http://www.lighthouseholidaycottages.co.uk/lightkeepers-cottage/ (trips to Ayr, Stranraer, around Mull of Galloway and Cairnryan for the ferry to Belfast). |
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◊ 2014-10-05 23:52 |
Glad you enjoyed your time here! |
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◊ 2014-10-06 00:49 |
@ kudos & Sandie - in the spirit of those immortal words from Valerie Singleton on Blue Peter "I don't normally like tomatoes, John, but this is delicious." - I don't normally do buses, but how about Bridgeton bus garage open day for an imcdb user-meet?? And anyone else who fancies a trip to Glasgow?? Even folk from Englandshire if necessary - the record attendance at a user-meet is apparently only 3, so this could be unknown territory for us all .... |
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◊ 2014-10-06 01:03 |
I don't usually do buses either but that does look interesting. That weekend's a bit dodgy for me but I'll try and work round that if there is some interest. |
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◊ 2014-11-14 07:54 |
I know its a tragedy . only see a few Foden eight wheel tippers now in my area.One of the richest industrialised countries in the world and and we don't have a truck maker . Even the Transit has gone to Turkey ! Who incidentally have a strong truck industry with around five major makes. -- Last edit: 2014-11-14 07:59:28 |
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◊ 2020-09-02 09:17 |
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