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My second new Foden fitted with Gardners new 6LYT 320 just short of 16 litre, Gardner uprated it to 350 bhp for me. NMI reinforced alloy body again, a much more practical cab interior, I had a great time with this wagon, sadly the engine had big issues, oil leaks massive oil consumption, worn out fuel pump under warranty, one of the first non Gardner pumps I think. From a drivers point of view I loved it, unstoppable on the climbs, unbeatable in control of the middle lane of the M1, 350 bhp at 30 tonnes and over 80 mph, more torque at tickover than any other engine around, a pleasure to drive, but not necessarily to own, I only had it for two and a half years I think.
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS EAST RANGE, Hawaii (June 5, 2018) - Soldiers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, receive instruction on the land navigation course during Expert Infantryman Badge train up at Schofield Barracks East Range. Infantrymen throughout the 25th ID are participating in this biannual event to earn the prestigious Expert Infantryman Badge. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Armando R. Limon, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division) 180605-A-EL056-001
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Four hundred 2nd Brigade Combat Team
Soldiers will begin moving into a new home soon. The New Barracks Complex on Schofield
Barracks’s Lyman Road officially opened in late December during a maile lei untying / ribbon cutting ceremony attended by the Corps of Engineers, the Garrison’s Directorate of Public Works, 25th ID’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team and Corps’ contractor Absher Construction.
Garsides Foden 4455 delivering a cast iron machine, unfortunately the sleet and snow had started and spoiled the photo's a bit. A nice motor that they bought new. Cat powered.
A full history of JB Schofield and sons ltd, the vehicles on scrap haulage and the gritters we built and ran can be found on our website here www.jbschofieldandsons.co.uk/
Original drummer with the Matt Schofield Trio at "The Brook" Southampton 18/04/2010
Helping out on 1st night of tour as current drummer (and bassist) stranded by volcano dust!
Scratch Ambassador, Stephen Webber and master's students Beth Schofield, Ganavya Doraiswamy, Patti Ramon, and Priscilla Vella. The members of the band are accomplished musicians from around the world who mash up their cultures and talents to produce groundbreaking music.
Commissary patrons will be seeing plenty of "Back to School" displays in their local stores like this one from Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. (Photo: Terry Lau courtesy of Armstrong Produce)
I did a fairly extensive photo shoot with my Fodens the other day. Having dug the Fodens out for the first time in ages I gave them a wash to get rid of eight months’ worth of dust. I wanted something to photograph with the new gear to start and get a feel for it, there are some photographs with the EOS M but most are with the 5D. They will appear repetitive but for my own reasons I have decided to upload most of the shoot.
M462LYL was one of the 400 or so 4000 series gritters that were supplied to the Highways Agency over a period of years to replace the S80 series Fodens, that we had five of. This wagon would have been scrapped along with most of the others but for the intervention of Stuart Kaye. Although it is in exceptional condition so were most of them, regardless, they had to be scrapped and not sold back onto the UK market. A scandalous waste of money, many had been extensively (and expensively) refurbished to a very high standard – total rebuilds – they were still scrapped. A Cummins 325 and six speed auto box makes this wagon very nice to drive empty! I very much doubt that the auto box and gearing would get up our local hills fully loaded and certainly not if pushing a plough. The wagon has covered 85,000 km and other than corrosion caused by salty hands the cab interior is very good.
I bought a second 4000 series, but just the chassis cab. The scrapping contract allowed for chassis or gritter bodies to be sold separately. Once separated the body takes a lot of refitting. There are hundreds of wires in plastic trunking and they just hacked through them, you couldn’t overstate the scale of the job of refitting, cost effectively, a body back onto one of the original chassis. I had sourced a dump truck body from an MOD Foden Alpha that would fit nicely on the 4000 chassis. We use this around the yard alongside our 1960’s Foden dumper.
It was whilst looking at the chassis cabs with Stuart in Geesons at Ripley that we saw OYE779Y, parked up with a plough fitted, it was minus 11 during this period and almost every motor in the yard had flat batteries, which the frost had then killed completely. We didn’t get to see a motor running but I ended up buying two including OYE. As soon as I saw this motor I knew that there was something strange about it. A Paccar (Kenworth) chassis, Cummins L10 250, Eaton Twinsplitter and Rockwell axles, with a 4000 series cab. As a regular buyer and driver of Fodens in the 80’s and 90’s I knew that these components weren’t available in 1982, when it was allegedly built. I had a new Foden the same month as this motor was supposed to have been built, December 1982. BYG167Y had Foden chassis and S10 cab, the Twinsplitter hadn’t been invented at this point. The serial number stamped on the chassis relates to an S80 series gritter, one of the previous generation, with Foden Gearbox, chassis, axles and Rolls Royce 265L engine. This is what the Foden Microfiche build sheet still shows for this serial number.
OYE779Y seems to have been built to replace the original, which was written off in a serious accident. The strange thing is the allocation of the same serial and registration numbers to a totally different vehicle. We have seen a black and white photograph of the wagon, when new with a conventional Atkinson gritter body. This was replaced with the French body now fitted. This has water tanks and can spread the salt with water, made of plastic and stainless steel, it appears unused. The wagon itself was unloved and un driven, we think, because of the Twin splitter gearbox, which wasn’t suitable for the drivers employed on the motorway gritting teams. With 30,000 km on the clock, mostly service miles, the wagon is like new. Other than sag in the roof lining material the cab interior is like new. I’m guessing that it saw very little actual work, subsequently it doesn’t have the fantastic paint job of the newer 4000 series, the result of being sandblasted and two pack painted. OYE has been touched up, a bit of a splodge here and there. There is a total lack of corrosion, it just needs a good respray and it would be like new. A new set of tyres fitted in 2003 still have the stickers on them. The long and the short of it is that this is a much newer wagon. The 4000 series cab was available in 1987, I bought one on an E plate, the last generation of S10 was still available in 1986 on a D plate so I reckon it would be built around this time.
There are only a few 4000 series gritters survived in the UK but some went to Ireland and others to Eastern Europe. Presumably Roger Geeson was allowed to export to countries where it wouldn't affect the sales of the suppliers of the new gritting fleet - this appeared to be why there was a restriction on sales in the UK.
If anyone has more to add regarding this story please let me Know.
I couldn’t resist adding my other two Fodens to the line-up, customers were coming and going at the same time hence some other motors in there. I decided to add some cab interior shots a day or two later, just for the record as it were.
To see more about J B Schofield and Sons and the history of the business and its 33 years as a gritting contractor, look here www.jbschofieldandsons.co.uk/
I have bought an adapter for the EOS M That allows me to fit vintage Canon FD lens to a 18mp digital camera. Unlike attempts at getting FD to work on other EOS camersa - this one works! I can now attach EF lens and FD as well as the STM Lens designed for it. I have used a variety of old FD lens this week, including a 17mm (here) and EF 16-35. The results with the old lens is fantastic, no quality problems. No instructions with the £16 adapter but it's well made and easy to figure out. It's a bit like using manual gear - you have to think about the process and mentally check each step. Focus with a long lens is tricky but with a wide angle infinity and F8 and the camera does the rest if the subject is more than ten foot away. Happy days - a new lease of life for my FD lens collection.
For more about Mark@jbschofieldandsons and the history of the company and its vehicles follow the link www.jbschofieldandsons.co.uk/
Four hundred 2nd Brigade Combat Team
Soldiers will begin moving into a new home soon. The New Barracks Complex on Schofield
Barracks’s Lyman Road officially opened in late December during a maile lei untying / ribbon cutting ceremony attended by the Corps of Engineers, the Garrison’s Directorate of Public Works, 25th ID’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team and Corps’ contractor Absher Construction.
Four hundred 2nd Brigade Combat Team
Soldiers will begin moving into a new home soon. The New Barracks Complex on Schofield
Barracks’s Lyman Road officially opened in late December during a maile lei untying / ribbon cutting ceremony attended by the Corps of Engineers, the Garrison’s Directorate of Public Works, 25th ID’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team and Corps’ contractor Absher Construction.
I print these as A4 posters on photo paper to give to customers or their kids, they print really well as A3+ posters. The original file sizes are massive, around 25 to 30 layers created from 30 to 50mb files, I keep them in layers then I can go back and make new versions quite easily. They needed a lot of processing power and memory to create, not a problem now but it was a few years ago.
The Fodens and ERFs were all converted into gritters in our own workshops, all of the vehicles except the H reg ERF I sandblasted and resprayed in my very basic sprayshop. The H reg we converted from 6x2 petrol tanker tractor unit to 4x2 rigid, it ran seven nights a week on the night patrol contract when we downgraded the M type ERF to lighter duties. There were Gardener 4LW, 5LW, 6LW, 6LXB, 6LXC, 6LXCT and a 160 version of the 6LXB in our ERF and Fodens, we used to have a 3LW in a Smith 14 crane/dragline. I ran the 6LYT in B52SUM rated at 350 bhp.
Four hundred 2nd Brigade Combat Team
Soldiers will begin moving into a new home soon. The New Barracks Complex on Schofield
Barracks’s Lyman Road officially opened in late December during a maile lei untying / ribbon cutting ceremony attended by the Corps of Engineers, the Garrison’s Directorate of Public Works, 25th ID’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team and Corps’ contractor Absher Construction.
Pictured, a post-World War II post exchange at Hawaii's Schofield Barracks, 1947.
Post exchanges in Hawaii date back to the Spanish-American War in 1898. The first exchange in the Pacific was started by a military unit at Hawaii's Camp McKinley to serve troops en route to the Philippines to fight in the war.
During World War II, exchanges served troops at 18 locations on the islands of Hawaii, Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Molokai and Lanai. The post exchange at Hickam Field was severely damaged in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The 27th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "Wolfhounds," was established in 1901 as a U.S. Army regiment. In 1921, the regiment was assigned to the Army's Hawaiian Division, the same year the first post exchange at Schofield Barracks opened.
When war was at its fever pitch, the Schofield Barracks Exchange operated 110 field PXs throughout northern Oahu, much like the one pictured. The stores ranged from large establishments to small places serving 140 machine gunners on top of Mount Kahala. The latter was so isolated that PX supplies were brought to them by mule packs.
The Wolfhounds were some of the first U.S. troops to fire back at attacking Japanese planes during Pearl Harbor.
Four hundred 2nd Brigade Combat Team
Soldiers will begin moving into a new home soon. The New Barracks Complex on Schofield
Barracks’s Lyman Road officially opened in late December during a maile lei untying / ribbon cutting ceremony attended by the Corps of Engineers, the Garrison’s Directorate of Public Works, 25th ID’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team and Corps’ contractor Absher Construction.
Soldiers from the 65th Engineer Battalion from Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, use a Buffalo Mine Protected Route Clearing vehicle to clear a potential improvised explosive device while performing route clearance during Route Clearance Package Rotation 13-06A at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., April 19, 2013. The ten-day training rotation provides a live, virtual, and constructive training environment, allowing units to fully exercise their Mission Essential Task List. (U.S. Army photo)