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FODEN - BRITAIN’S BIGGEST

Foden had pioneered purpose-built British dumptrucks with its heavy duty six-wheelers in the late 1940s. In fact, Foden’s first 1947 prototype had been a four-wheel shuttle dumper, but in production it stuck with what it knew best and was soon supplying the Steel Company of Wales, and then quarries up and down the country, and soon as far afield as Italy and the Antipodes.

In the mid-1950s it was to decide to take on the successful British Euclid with entirely off-road oversize types. As noted in our recent survey of the AEC Dumptruk, the American firm had set up shop at Newhouse in Scotland in 1950 and had been snapped up by General Motors in the coronation year of 1953. Of course, General Motors owned Detroit Diesel whose two-strokes had proved ideal for earthmoving duties with Allis-Chalmers and others. Detroitpowered Euclids were a difficult act to follow but Foden was undaunted

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