robert1952:
Another odd-ball here. I think this is an ES8. They were rare in artic form and had the Steyr cab. Basically, they were a replacement for the M-series as far as I know. Anymore artic examples out there? Robert0
I drove an ES6 18 tonner rigid on shop deliveries. I thought I was now a proper trucker with an ERF! Complete dog of a wagon. Massive gearstick sticking up three feet from the massive engine hump. Boiled it’s knackers off on Windy Hill and never saw it again.
Ste46:
Apart from the one I photographed in a scrapyard last year, this is the only ERF I have seen in Spain. It lives in the village of Benejofar and seems to still work extremely hard for it’s living - I see it on at least once a week and it is always chasing about everywhere. This is the only time in nearly five years I have seen it standing still long enough for me to take a photo!
(Sometime in the next five I may even manage to speak to the owner/driver and find out a bit more about it!)0
Steve
Well, I finally caught up with him today! It is an EC11 Celect, ■■■■■■■ engine, owned from new in July 1999. It has covered 1.3 million km, has never let him down and is the best lorry he has ever owned. It is one of a pair, the other being a mixer which has been off the road for some time due to the non-availability of parts in Spain today. He has asked if anywhere in England still supplies parts as he is willing to pay to have them shipped out. I have pointed him in the direction of the ERF spares Facebook forum and I have told him I can get a complete RHD EC11 for spares, but any other thoughts/ideas Robert?
Steve
Ste46:
Ste46:
Apart from the one I photographed in a scrapyard last year, this is the only ERF I have seen in Spain. It lives in the village of Benejofar and seems to still work extremely hard for it’s living - I see it on at least once a week and it is always chasing about everywhere. This is the only time in nearly five years I have seen it standing still long enough for me to take a photo!
(Sometime in the next five I may even manage to speak to the owner/driver and find out a bit more about it!)0
Steve
Well, I finally caught up with him today! It is an EC11 Celect, ■■■■■■■ engine, owned from new in July 1999. It has covered 1.3 million km, has never let him down and is the best lorry he has ever owned. It is one of a pair, the other being a mixer which has been off the road for some time due to the non-availability of parts in Spain today. He has asked if anywhere in England still supplies parts as he is willing to pay to have them shipped out. I have pointed him in the direction of the ERF spares Facebook forum and I have told him I can get a complete RHD EC11 for spares, but any other thoughts/ideas Robert?
Steve
Alas, no. I was talking to a fairground operator back in summer, who owns several trusty old ERFs. He asked me the same question, as he was experiencing increasing problems with obtaining parts. However, because of the plastic cabs there is a high number of ERFs on the preservation circuit, so it’s possible that a body like REVS (the ERF preservation society) might know where to get parts. Robert
Just a reminder that you can cut through the crap of trying to work out whether your contribution is a LHD 3MW or a RHD 6MW etc by bunging it on here first and letting one of us ERF anoraks re-post it on the appropriate thread. I created this thread to help folk not be put off contributing 
Robert
moomooland:
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Well that’s a new one on me. It appears to be a 24-tonner drop-side truck on steel work with a cut down EC cab, possibly from a dustbin lorry (unlikely as it is a day cab rather than a crew cab) or even a car transporter. As it carries a Q-plate I would imagine it is a conversion. Perhaps the H&S regs in the factory(s) it serves require super floor area vision from the driver’s seat. Someone’ll know! Robert
ERF-NGC-European:
moomooland:
Well that’s a new one on me. It appears to be a 24-tonner drop-side truck on steel work with a cut down EC cab, possibly from a dustbin lorry (unlikely as it is a day cab rather than a crew cab) or even a car transporter. As it carries a Q-plate I would imagine it is a conversion. Perhaps the H&S regs in the factory(s) it serves require super floor area vision from the driver’s seat. Someone’ll know! Robert
Yes that is an odd one,and heres another !
Good afternoon Robert,
I may be wrong, but it does look like the ERF 6wheel specialist chassis for refuse and local authority operations created to meet the demise of Jack Allen’ s various refuse vehicles, and built inhouse by ERF. Note the tall exhaust stack - it was built that way to remove the problem of blowing up dust/rubbish from the ground when being operated.
I hope that helps,
Ed
EDTRUCK:
Good afternoon Robert,I may be wrong, but it does look like the ERF 6wheel specialist chassis for refuse and local authority operations created to meet the demise of Jack Allen’ s various refuse vehicles, and built inhouse by ERF. Note the tall exhaust stack - it was built that way to remove the problem of blowing up dust/rubbish from the ground when being operated.
I hope that helps,
Ed
Yes I’ll go along with that! R
ERF-NGC-European:
moomooland:
Well that’s a new one on me. It appears to be a 24-tonner drop-side truck on steel work with a cut down EC cab, possibly from a dustbin lorry (unlikely as it is a day cab rather than a crew cab) or even a car transporter. As it carries a Q-plate I would imagine it is a conversion. Perhaps the H&S regs in the factory(s) it serves require super floor area vision from the driver’s seat. Someone’ll know! Robert
On the right track Robert, this one courtesy of Len Rogers.
Oily
A few for you to sort out Robert !
DEANB:
A few for you to sort out Robert !1
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The top one appears to be a 3 or 5MW-cabbed model whilst the lower one looks to have an LV cab. R
The 2nd photo looks like an A-series, you can see the rear of the front grill through the
engine tunnel 
looks like the large slot/vents it would have 
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Its certainly got the correct front wings for an A Series, I could have done with this photo when I built my model A Series below! Cheers Franky.
robert1952:
revman:
robert1952:
Shunters, ‘dock spotters’: call them what you will. Not sure where these come from; but they’re UK registered and quite modern! Roberts as these at what used to be Bachelors foods Worksop,Kamac used em for shunting0
Thanks for the info there, Revman: so they were shunters for Bachlelors Foods at Worksop then, operated by Kamac. Cheers, Robert
TDS at Tyldesley had two identical to these, dunno whether they still have them.
ERF-NGC-European:
DEANB:
A few for you to sort out Robert !1
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The top one appears to be a 3 or 5MW-cabbed model whilst the lower one looks to have an LV cab. R
The lower one is one of the first factory pictures of a new A Series in 1971
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