Elm Foden tipper order
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• A Lim order for 98 Foden 30-ton eight-wheel vehicles has just been completed by Warrington Commercial Vehicles Ltd, Foden main agent, of Ashton-inMakerfield, Lancashire. A total of 80 tippers and six cement mixers are going into service at depots throughout the country for Amalgamated Roadstone Corporation Ltd which, like Warrington Commercial, is a member of the Gold Fields Group which has extensive interests in mining, particularly stone, cement and tin.
Twelve of the eight-wheel tippers are going into service with Allinson Stone Ltd, of Stockport, Cheshire, and, with an approximate 20-ton payload for each vehicle, will move hundreds of thousands of tons of stone in the next few years.
All the welded alloy tipping bodies have
been made by Thynne Engineering Ltd, of Bolton, and the bodywork is by Seadyke, of Wisbech, and Anthony Carrimore, of Stanley, Co Durham.