Still don’t know one from the other!!■■
coomsey:
Still don’t know one from the other!!■■
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NZ I think. The cab appears to be a 3MW. A milk tanker by the look of things.
ERF-NGC-European:
coomsey:
Still don’t know one from the other!!■■
0NZ I think. The cab appears to be a 3MW. A milk tanker by the look of things.
Looks like an Un Zud configuration too.
robthedog:
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They were nicknamed ‘Sabrinas’ - I wonder why 
(She was big out front too, apparently 
). Corny, but of its time. 
ERF-NGC-European:
robthedog:
.They were nicknamed ‘Sabrinas’ - I wonder why
I used to take limestone dust into Steelphalt’s plant from Milltown Quarry near Ashover, never loaded tarmac from there though as it was pretty much a closed shop.
Pete.
robthedog:
A series
That looks like one of the earlier LV interiors to me, before the A-series. The smaller, curved console and the four-spoked wheel date it earlier, I think.
coomsey:
New Zealand. Thank God for this topic, I’ll never know the different models!
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thank you! That’s why I started it. Even I struggle at times . These look to have 3MW cabs (possibly 5MW - the differences lie detail like headlamp size). Anyone’s guess which chassis, engine or gearbox.
If we still produced our own lorries and food we wouldn’t have to worry what went on in the Red Sea!
I’ve always been entertained (rather than fascinated) by the factory livery of ERF demonstrators and ERF’s own factory lorries.
Earlier examples appear to have been presented in plain colours.
I must say, I did like that period during the 1970s when the white capital letters ERF were presented in a neat rectangle on both doors and on the headboard against the standardised ‘rocket red’ cab with white roof and white wheels. The A-series, the NGC-series and the early B-series enjoyed this feature. I think that simple and very effective ‘70s design was brilliant. In practice it was probably the easiest logo to erase once you had purchased the vehicle.
Around 1980 the Trail-Blazer advertising campaign kicked in with what I thought was an over fussy design on the doors and literature. The demo sent out to ERF’s short-lived Greek base was an interesting extension of the Trail-Blazer theme incorporating a tilt trailer. Shame there aren’t more pictures about of this demonstrator.
Cleaner lines were soon restored in the early ‘80s with the advent of the C-series, which ushered in a very effective ERF TRUCKS logo on both cab doors and in accompanying literature. Personally, I consider this ‘says it all’ statement to be the best of all.
When the E-series came to fruition in the late ‘80s the logo changed to the rather striking ERF logo with the triple coloured stripes cut diagonally through it. This logo appeared only on the radiator grille and upon attendant literature.
From E-series advert
‘ERF-NGC’