A Foden FG8/15

This is a Foden FG8/15 (eight wheeler) truck (english brand). The first new truck of Haukes after WW II. Togehter with the Macks, the Fodens were the trucks of Haukes that you could see everywhere in Holland in those days but also in Germany or Belgium. Haukes replaced the NR Macks of the US Army with these trucks and for over maybe 10 years almost all the fleet where Foden trucks. But there were a few Mack NR trucks left and Mr Haukes decided around 1958 to acquire a Mack N61 wich came in the spring of 1959. At the same time he bought a Foden FG8/15 six wheeler which had to compete with the Mack N61 to see what truck was the best for Haukes at that time. Of course Mack won this test and from 1959 until around 1975 almost all new trucks where Macks.