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Colin
nilocekyd:
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Colin
What cab is on the top one? It looks like an Ergo with a home-made dash.
Id love to have a go in a erf lol are they the ones with the crash boxes?
3stepsaheaduk:
Id love to have a go in a erf lol are they the ones with the crash boxes?
Most ‘crash’ boxes died out before the War. ERFs did have ‘crash’ boxes until the early '40s, after which they had constant-mesh 'boxes right up to the last days of the EC model, after which inferior (IMHO) synchromesh 'boxes were (grudgingly) introduced to satisfy new EU decibel laws. ERFs between 1970 and 2000 were usually a joy to drive (I’ll get my coat shall I?)! Robert 
PS Here’s an ERF interior from 1973 (it’s an NGC ‘European’)
Thanks for the info that truck looks nice id rather drive that then the 2013 daf i drive now
Robert and 3step, ref the ‘Crash boxes’ you will often read on the site drivers recalling they drove say an ERF B Series with a crash box when in fact they should mean Constant Mesh, it seems to be a common mistake that the CM box was referred to as a Crash by some simply because it wasn’t a Synchromesh and the fact the driver made a few tunes on them before they became more experienced in their use, as you say Robert the real Crash box began to be replaced in the 30/40’s and vehicles from the 60’s/70’s and 80’s could never have done the job they did do with the old true Crash Boxes. Franky.
robert1952:
3stepsaheaduk:
Id love to have a go in a erf lol are they the ones with the crash boxes?Most ‘crash’ boxes died out before the War. ERFs did have ‘crash’ boxes until the early '40s, after which they had constant-mesh 'boxes right up to the last days of the EC model, after which inferior (IMHO) synchromesh 'boxes were (grudgingly) introduced to satisfy new EU decibel laws. ERFs between 1970 and 2000 were usually a joy to drive (I’ll get my coat shall I?)! Robert
PS Here’s an ERF interior from 1973 (it’s an NGC ‘European’)
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Frankydobo:
Robert and 3step, ref the ‘Crash boxes’ you will often read on the site drivers recalling they drove say an ERF B Series with a crash box when in fact they should mean Constant Mesh, it seems to be a common mistake that the CM box was referred to as a Crash by some simply because it wasn’t a Synchromesh and the fact the driver made a few tunes on them before they became more experienced in their use, as you say Robert the real Crash box began to be replaced in the 30/40’s and vehicles from the 60’s/70’s and 80’s could never have done the job they did do with the old true Crash Boxes. Franky.
Robert and franky I do believe the journo’s referred to them as a crash box as that is what they did when driving them rattling their fingers and playing a tune 
cheers Johnnie 
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Colin
What cab is on the top one? It looks like an Ergo with a home-made dash.
This is what happens when people just blindly copy pictures off the web while being too lazy to also post the accompanying captions!
The top picture is an Ergo cabbed AEC MKV Mammoth Major - this one to be precise!
Here’s a quick snap I took of a Dodge Hi Line I was just about to move last week behind a recovery lorry.
fryske:
This is what happens when people just blindly copy pictures off the web while being too lazy to also post the accompanying captions!The top picture is an Ergo cabbed AEC MKV Mammoth Major - this one to be precise!
Aha! Thanks for that. I guess it was easier to transplant the MkV instruments/switches etc. into a home-made box, rather than try to mate the Ergo dash with the loom and pipework of the MkV cab?
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anorak:fryske:
This is what happens when people just blindly copy pictures off the web while being too lazy to also post the accompanying captions!The top picture is an Ergo cabbed AEC MKV Mammoth Major - this one to be precise!
Aha! Thanks for that. I guess it was easier to transplant the MkV instruments/switches etc. into a home-made box, rather than try to mate the Ergo dash with the loom and pipework of the MkV cab?
iirc it was done by Hudsons when they had had enough of the rot in the original cab — it was one of those suicide door ones
Despite appearances the beast is very quick due to it’s very wide gearing-
Not the best quality cab interior shots but here is 6 legs in her heyday (early 70s with Gardner 150) and on the scrapheap in 1986 (after 10 years with a Gardner 180 & pulling a draw bar)
As a nipper, riding in that cab, I felt like King of the Road but that steering wheel was cold and hard to turn - long way down from that cab too at 12!
Albion (late 50s / early 60s) most likely or maybe a Bedford S Type (as they were the only wagons we had back then)
martinviking:
0View from the bottom bunk in my MAN TGX 26-440
thats a funny place to position your gentlemans sock is it not■■?
Gardner 120:
Albion (late 50s / early 60s) most likely or maybe a Bedford S Type (as they were the only wagons we had back then)
One of the older Albions, I reckon, matey. Certainly not a Bedford.
Retired Old ■■■■:
Gardner 120:
Albion (late 50s / early 60s) most likely or maybe a Bedford S Type (as they were the only wagons we had back then)One of the older Albions, I reckon, matey. Certainly not a Bedford.
Yes - I’m sure you are right