Foden Double Deckers

Does anyone have any idea as to how many double deckers Foden produced?
I'm particularly interested in Burlingham bodied vehicles from the 30's.
Local (to me) operator, Ebor, had a 1933 DDG6 ex demonstrator in the fleet. I'm curious to know how many such vehicles were made.

Berisford Jones

04/10/12 - 18:26

PSVC book number MM2 suggests that the only Burlingham double-deck Foden was demonstrator AMB834 built in 1933. There are around sixty listed deckers but the book is incomplete in as much as quite a lot of chassis have no information available though these are mostly export models. There were a number of body-makers with Welsh Metal Industries, Massey, & East Lancs being amongst them.

Les Dickinson

04/10/12 - 18:30

I just found this info. Foden only began building bus chassis after WW2. They built from 1945 to 1956. Only 450 were built. They were not a success.
I do lots of Dinky Toy restorations on buses and other models. This one is out of the ordinary.
This is a Foden double decker I tried to make from a broken Dinky Leyland. This was really only a try-out but it was going in the right direction. It was based on one of only 2 remaining PVDs now in existence.
I understand if it is not appropriate to the site.

Alex

04/10/12 - 18:31

According to PSVC publication MM2, there was only one pre-war Foden built as a 'decker, which was the DDG6 demonstrator AMB 834 which had a Burlingham body. Two further DDG6 chassis were built, which were bodied as a tanker and a horsebox, and one SDG6 coach was later rebodied with a Massey lowbridge body (and later again with a Leyland lowbridge body).
After the war there seem to have been 57 double-deck PVD6's, plus two more bodied as horse-boxes, a solitary PVD demonstrator with Foden engine, a small number of PVSC6 single-deck chassis which received double-deck bodies in Australia, and of course the eight rear-engined 'deckers built in the 'seventies.

Michael Wadman

04/10/12 - 18:32

I'll add that one of the reasons I'm curious is the registration of the Mansfield Ebor vehicle, AMB 634. There is a picture on Flickr, http://flic.kr/ showing an almost identical (destination/linen box altered) Foden Burlingham demonstrator with the registration AMB 834.

Berisford Jones

05/10/12 - 07:26

Green Bus Service (Rugeley and Uttoxeter) Ltd (M.A. & C.J.Whieldon) had two Foden double deckers, brand new, in the early 1950s. They had very stylish bodies by Samlesbury Engineering of Lancashire.

Chris Youhill

05/10/12 - 17:42

Michael/Les, you guys confirm what I thought, it must be the same vehicle. I wonder what the true registration number was 8 or 6?

Berisford Jones

06/10/12 - 07:42

AMB 834 was a DDG6 chassis 15418, Burlingham H24/24R 12/33

Les Dickinson

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