ERF:
I have a quick question for you Marc.
Your relatives ERF B Series pictured above in BRS colours - XUA907X. It was featured in the CVC mag a few years ago, but why does the big photo on the front cover show the lorry to have a LHD cab (wiper sweep), the RR badge on the opposite side of the grille and the fuel tank on the opposite side of the chassis?. It has always bugged me - the photos inside the mag are all correct!.
this is XUA 907X when owned by thomas armstrong with a irish plate can only think they may have got the negative the wrong way round for the cover pic
If this XUA 907X then it’s a picture we have never seen before but we aren’t 100% sure if this is the same wagon as it only carried the BRS orange for the first few months of it’s life before being blue, then white until sold by them in 1987. The vehicle in the picture has a stack too which may of course have been removed by the time we got it. However it did have tipping gear fitted, which we removed when purchased by us. The gentleman who gave us the BRS info also said it was part of a consecutively registered batch, could the above wagon be one of them?
It’s a shame we can’t see the other corner of the cab as it had a second cab lock fitted under a black cover (apparently a security device for when it was on contract to Rothmans.)
As for the cover photo we asked Nick Larkin and it was all to do with presentation apparently. It made the anoraks a bit puzzled at shows for weeks after.
We don’t own the lorry anymore. We didn’t want to get rid of it but lack of space for chairs, food (very important with me!) etc meant we were looking for a sleeper cabbed vehicle (the green E10 featured previously in the thread, after a brief flirtation with a tin worm infested Leyland Cruiser - like most Leylands!)
One of the 21 brand new ERF ‘C’ Series Gardner engined tractor units introduced into Lowfields Sainsbury’s contract fleet early in 1982 was CNV 126X. Pictured here at the M62 Hartshead Moor Service area driver Tony May has just stopped off to fill the windscreen washer bottle which was located on the right hand side beneath the grill, a bad place to locate it, as it just became a solid block of ice in the winter. More Lowfield/Sainsburys pictures can be found HERE
Bewick:
A couple of B series 8 potters stood in the depot alongside a loaded 81’ 4 wheeler.
I remember those 8 pot B series, didn’t they sound sweet pulling hard.
They sure were Trev,the nearest one had the earlier twin air filters but it’s mate had the standard single one common to the Atkis,Seddon and Guy ect.This is the sort of shot we are looking for of a Guy Big J 8 potter! Tin hat on back to the shelters lads,the enemy checks all our communications!! Cheers Dennis. Steady now stop pushing at the back “H” there’s room for everyone in the dog kennel!!.
ERF at the top of sutton bank on its way to Pickering and Malton safeway stores, had to pull
in at the top the ■■■■■■■ got a little hot and bothered by the time it climb up the
little hill .
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