What do I know?!?!
Hi Paul,not doing too bad mate…SAM 2H…well you got me there mate,cant remember that old girl,enlighten me…what was it?
Bubbs, 
bubbleman:
Hi Paul,not doing too bad mate…SAM 2H…well you got me there mate,cant remember that old girl,enlighten me…what was it?Bubbs,
Shep’s little baby - A red D-series with a grey dropside 
I think he bought her for the reg number but she used to earn her keep now and again! Chrome hubcaps and all…
I think she went with him when he moved up over the hill but I’m not sure what’s happened to her since he passed away - I’ll ask Rod when I see him next
Irrelevant fact No. 4389 Shep bought the house that my grandmother was born in and lived in until she married in her twenties… 
Hi Paul,yes yes …I remember now,dear old thing,my missus’s cousin Ian Watts (he lives opposite the yard in Wick and was worked for Shep) told me the same story about the reg,it could still be about.
Bubbs,
cattle wagon man:
This E.R.F. tractor unit was at the Carlisle Rally last weekend
Apart from the name " Miller" on the cab doors , I know no further details .
…maybe theTrucker Sleuth■■■■■■■■ Gill can regale us with further information.
Cheers, cattle wagon man.
Hi cattle wagon man. This ERF is mine. Carlisle was its 1st outing a week before I took it to get resprayed so looks a lot smarter now. It is ex tyson h burridge.
Hi ERFE10 ,
Thanks for the info., re G 177 TTM . It certainly looks good now.
Hoping to see it on the Rally Scene next year. 
Cheers , cattle wagon man.
ERFE10:
This is my ERF In service with tyson h burridge.
2As it is now in my ownership being restored.
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wow, very nice
cheers
gaz
Bet that sounds nice, those 10 Litre’s alway’s sounded awsome through an upright. Looks great mate, credit to ya.
Thanks lads. She does sound well
Just had one put on our E10, couldn’t believe the difference. There’s not many bends in it to be fair though…
Hi Bobtail the Erf E200LRY looks great there were some similar registrations round here I think Bj Waters had some like 225 also Webster bros nr Ashbourne had 223 I am not sure with out hunting some pics out but they may have been plastic and steel bumpers on following on numbers.
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ERF:
Laurie Dryver:
Hi ERF, I operated a 5MW Reg HGE 853N in the 80’s , can you tell me the difference between that and a 7MW which had a bigger cab cab and single windscreen and was operated by both Eric Vick and Richard Read on the M/E with the VIJORE partnership? ThanksWithout the chassis numbers of both vehicles to enable us to analyze the build details, it is difficult to say specifically.
The 7MW ‘European’ cab was launched on the ERF NGC420 (for 42’000kg operation) at the Brussels show of 1973. The NGC420 had a slightly stronger modified ‘A Series’ chassis frame (redesigned by Ex Atkinson chief engineer Jack Cooke), which was a precursor of the much revised and stronger Cooke designed ‘B Series’ chassis, launched in September 1974.
The NGC420 model replaced the MGG380 (for 38’000kg operation) model 5MW cabbed ‘A Series’ for European exports, but the 5MW continued to be available on the ‘A Series’ tractor unit chassis, and (with the 4MW cab) on the Pre ‘A Series’ rigid chassis for other markets.
The 7MW ‘European’ cab continued to be available for a time on the ‘B Series’ tractor unit chassis, after it’s launch.Most of us in the UK haulage industry identified an ERF ‘series’ by the shape and type of it’s cab, as demonstrated on these pages, but that is not strictly speaking always an accurate method.
For example, ‘LV’ is really just an evolving series of (mainly) JH Jenning’s built fibreglass cabs, not a vehicle range.
‘A Series’ was a completely new (almost entirely tractor unit) chassis frame, designed in 1970 by Alan Turner, but not put into full scale production until April 1972. The cabs available on this chassis frame were the 7LV and 5MW, but the 7LV was also available on non ‘A Series’ chassis.
‘B Series’ was a Jack Cooke revised chassis frame, fitted as standard with Cooke’s all new SP (Steel / Plastics) tilt cab.
‘C Series’ was another chassis revision, fitted as standard with the updated SP3 cab, but some export chassis did get the old SP.
‘E Series’ was another chassis revision, fitted as standard with the updated SP4, then SP4A (plastic bumper) cab.5MV cab was also an option i believe, the Motor Pannels day cab.
Hiya odd numbers on the steel cab was setback axle, even numbers was forwad control with the front wheel under the door with no step.
same with the mv cab. these cabs come from motor panels in flat pack. the cabs was assembed at jennings. also all the interior was made at jennings. where the forward control is used the door frame and door was modifed at jennings. the door and frame was bigJ
we chopped them up and made the wheelarch fit under the door. Shell in south africa had a large number of day cab MV’s. these had a fibre glass front made at jennings.
John
Long shot, I know, but if anyone has a pic of H278 BEA - an E14 which I drove out of Beck & Pollitzer’s Bilston depot in the late 1990s - I’d love to see it. No idea what happened to it, but I like to think it’s still out there somewhere.