Steam Powered WagonMade By Edwin Foden of Sandbach
I would have liked to have seen this making it's way through Hyde, a hundred years ago this would have been their 'White Van Man'.
This is a snippet from
Concerning Steam Wagons Generally.
A Foden Log.
This is a snippet from
Concerning Steam Wagons Generally.
A Foden Log.
Mr. L. F. Haydock, Manager of the Motor Department of the Maypole Dairy Co., Ltd., Godley, near Manchester, under date the 11th inst., writes to us :—" We beg to give you the following figures about our Foden wagons: Motor No. 1.—Average weekly mileage, 215 miles; average load per run, 8 tons 7 cwt. ; cost of coal per mile, 1.23d., ; coal used per mile, 8.10 lb.; average miles per journey', 57. Motor No. 2.—Average weekly mileage, 245 miles ; average load per run, 8 tons 9 cwt.; cost of coal per, mile, 1.28d.; coal used per mile, 7.90 lb.; average miles per journey, 66. Motor No. 3.—Average weekly mileage, 242 miles ; average load per journey, 8 tons 13 cwt. ; cost of coal per mile. I.42d.; coal used per mile, 9.35 lb. ; average miles per journey, 63. Motor No. 4.—Average weekly mileage, 236 miles; average load per journey, 8 tons 10 cwt. ; cost of coal per mile, 1.34d.; coal used per mile, 8.83 lb. ; average miles per journey, 6.5. Motor No. 5.—Average weekly mileage, 249 miles; average load per journey, 9 tons ; cost -of coal per mile, 1.27d.; coal used per mile„ 8.37 lb. ; average miles per journey, 67.
" The. above figures a-re for the year 1910. The average weights of loads include empties on hack trip." Good Steamers.
6 comments:
Wow, that's some wagon, very impressive!
Can anybody date it? An incredible picture of times gone by.
Was there a Maypole shop in Hyde, t'other half says that there was one in Denton?
Hi John.... 1908-09...
Gorgeous machine, I bet it weighed a bit, those back wheels alone look like they weighed a ton each?
The Maypole shop stood just lower down from the arcade on Market street.
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