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Being a 'right steamer' Biglorryblog is grateful to Mike Davies for e-mailing this curio to me: "Hi Brian, going back a bit but might be of interest. Here are three picture samples from an original Foden steamer brochure. Above is the front cover" All very understated says BLB!
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The one above is a sample page and click through here for a price list...(if you can stomach it!)
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£600 quid for a 'Colonial waggon'! Are they mad?
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And finally , says Mike, "Here's a desk blotter given out as promotional items in those far away days when laptop meant something entirely different. The world has certainly changed in a relevently short time cheers Mike Davies." And what a fabulous trip down memory motorway you!
This is probably as appropriate a time as ever to give my fellow anoraks a lovely bit of Foden steamer nostalgia. If it goes quiet in the snug tonight just astound fellow drinkers with the alleged fact that the body tipping control lever in the Foden range of Dump Trucks (found on the drivers right hand side rear cab wall) was in fact a carryover from steamers in that is is reputed to be a steamer regulator lever - unless anyone else out there knows better! Regards, 12 Speed.
What sort of warranty did they give on those Foden colonial wagggons? The lads from the Navy steam club down at HMAS Cerberus lit up their 1923 six tonner last week and it promptly snapped the crankshaft! An urgent postcard is no doubt on the way to Sandbach.