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Encyclopedia > Foden
1930 Foden Steam lorry
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1930 Foden Steam lorry
1959 Foden S20 dropside
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1959 Foden S20 dropside
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1967 Foden S36 flatbed

Foden Trucks is a truck manufacturer. Originally formed in 1887 as Edwin Foden Sons & Co Ltd to produce steam lorries. Edwin's son E.R. Foden saw the future lay in diesel power and in 1931 he was thrown out of the boardroom for advocating it, leading him to to form the breakaway ERF. In 1981 Foden was acquired by the American firm PACCAR, and is now a division of that company. The driver of a car transporter truck prepares to offload Skoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For further uses of the word truck, see Truck (disambiguation). ... PACCAR Inc. ...


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