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.
Wow, that's some wagon, very impressive!
ReplyDeleteCan anybody date it? An incredible picture of times gone by.
ReplyDeleteWas there a Maypole shop in Hyde, t'other half says that there was one in Denton?
ReplyDeleteHi John.... 1908-09...
ReplyDeleteGorgeous machine, I bet it weighed a bit, those back wheels alone look like they weighed a ton each?
ReplyDeleteThe Maypole shop stood just lower down from the arcade on Market street.
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