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L10 Foden
A SPECIALLY-DESIGNED Fod S106 six-wheeler with a Cu mins L10 engine has recently tered service with We Yorkshire contract fle operator C. Spencer (Haulage] Knottingley. The double-dr 24-tonner is painted in Celc livery and operates from Goole plant, delivering therr building blocks to sites withi 160km (100 mile) radius.
The 4.8m (16ft) wheelbase den with S10 sleeper cab equipped with a Fuller RTO 71 gearbox linked to a Rocky rear bogie with high traction ferential.
The body length is 6.4m (2 with an Atlas 3500 unload crane mounted on the rear of chassis, using heavy di 100mm (4in) square box sect underfloor body runners tending from the front of the gie rearwards beyond the enc the high tensile main chat longitudinals.
The platform body was at Spencer's Knotting workshops, which also insta the Atlas crane as well as signing and building the draulic grab used for lifting 2.13mx1.5m (7ftx5ft) bvilc block packs.
The L10-powered vehicle been returning over 28.2 tres/100km (10mpg) incluc fuel used inloading with power take-off powered cram