After being out of the country for few years, I’ve been tuning into ‘Dave TV’ to catch up on the last eight or so years of Top Gear programmes. And very entertaining they are too! Why can’t we have a nice hilly circuit somewhere where we can all put some of these glorious old ERFs through their paces (and any other marque for that matter)? We could call it ‘Bottom Gear’, or ‘Crawler’! Robert 
Here are some B-series and C-series units I snapped today at the Gloucestershire Steam & Vintage Extravaganza. Robert
FLOURPOWER:
ERF A B C
The A Series at the bottom of your picture belonged to Kinneil Transport of Edinburgh
This a picture of my dad in his A series when she was a about 8 months old
It was the first 240 Gardner powered A Series in Scotland it was the pride of place on the ERF stand at the 1972 Kelvin Hall motor show
My dad was based in Nottingham working for Kinneils
Nice input Flourpower!!! Good that so many ERF’s are kept alive and kicking!
FLOURPOWER:
SOUTH CERNEY RALLY PICS
I think I have a photo of that D420SMB when it was red at the start of the Cheshire road run.
A rather elegant-looking C-series… Robert 
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heres some I,ve spotted in the past the ex nelson one is still working bringing timber down the fells to the artics,(gotta nice bumper)
love the millicans photo
Hi Flourpower, would I be right in thinking that in the picture of A34LDF coming over the bridge out of Healings was driven by Chris Solarno. I worked with Chris many years ago as I did with many of Healings drivers don’t if you were there at the same time as them - Roger Taylor,Brian Priddy,Mick Booth,Trevor Danter,Tony Greening,■■■■ Short,Pete Camden do any of these names ring a bell. Best regards
Laurie Dryver:
Hi Flourpower, would I be right in thinking that in the picture of A34LDF coming over the bridge out of Healings was driven by Chris Solarno. I worked with Chris many years ago as I did with many of Healings drivers don’t if you were there at the same time as them - Roger Taylor,Brian Priddy,Mick Booth,Trevor Danter,Tony Greening,■■■■ Short,Pete Camden do any of these names ring a bell. Best regards
Hi I remember all these names I was a mechanic there from 1990 to 2006 my dad was keith hendy(paddy)a driver and I am also keith hendy jnr.Yes that was chris solano in A34.■■■■ short has passed away but the rest of the names are still around,Mick booth and Trevor danter drive for cottswold dairy still.Do you have any photos of your time there?cheers keith flourpower
Hi Keith, my name is Noel Minchew and I worked with most of those guys at Oldacres in the early70s the others I know from various places,I left Oldacres in 1972 and became an O/D and used to go into Healings to load wheatfeed. I’ve known Roger Taylor since he worked for Dennis Perry at Church Farm, Bushley. My late Dad got Mick Booth his first driving job on Ashchurch Camp.Regards
