Foden Trucks was a British truck

Truck

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 and bus

Bus

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 manufacturing company which has its origins in Sandbach, Cheshire

Sandbach

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 in 1856. PACCAR

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 acquired the company in 1980, and ceased to use the marque name in 2006.
In 1856 Edwin Foden became apprenticed to the agricultural equipment

Agricultural machinery

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 manufacturing company of Plant & Hancock. He left the company for an apprenticeship at Crewe Railway Works

Crewe Works

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 but returned to Plant & Hancock at the age of 19.