H & E Trotter
b.waddy:
Hi, Guesty , We bought two ex Lathams Foden units ,One was A Gardner 150 high speed diff reg no DTE 2// E , The other was a 180 H/ Diff LTD427 F ,Both flying motors.They did us proud ,Just wondering if you can shed any light on the subject. Cheers, Barry
Sorry cant really 35yrs + since I was there LAB was owned by Michael Latham;
He offered the job to me to run into Europe.first contracting to ski international (Manchester)
Jock Simpson was the other ex:LCT driver who lived and run out of Coventrywho was killed in France
The only Foden unit I remember was white which I had for a time then onto the electric lift Wagon an drag
Foden ,I remember that more because nobody wanted it because it was slow loading.But what they didn’t Know was there were 2 more 240bhp ERFs coming so I was lucky to cop for one.So you see waddy I cant tell more than
that.Mid 60ts all that happened.Moved on to Bowkers then.Both motors are on here bullnose merc+ wagon drag.
Ray Waddy ex:LCT.
Guesty44:
1b.waddy:
Hi, Guesty , We bought two ex Lathams Foden units ,One was A Gardner 150 high speed diff reg no DTE 2// E , The other was a 180 H/ Diff LTD427 F ,Both flying motors.They did us proud ,Just wondering if you can shed any light on the subject. Cheers, BarrySorry cant really 35yrs + since I was there LAB was owned by Michael Latham;
He offered the job to me to run into Europe.first contracting to ski international (Manchester)
Jock Simpson was the other ex:LCT driver who lived and run out of Coventrywho was killed in France
The only Foden unit I remember was white which I had for a time then onto the electric lift Wagon an drag
Foden ,I remember that more because nobody wanted it because it was slow loading.But what they didn’t Know was there were 2 more 240bhp ERFs coming so I was lucky to cop for one.So you see waddy I cant tell more than
that.Mid 60ts all that happened.Moved on to Bowkers then.Both motors are on here bullnose merc+ wagon drag.
Ray Waddy ex:LCT.
guest
Guesty44:
Guesty44:
1b.waddy:
Hi, Guesty , We bought two ex Lathams Foden units ,One was A Gardner 150 high speed diff reg no DTE 2// E , The other was a 180 H/ Diff LTD427 F ,Both flying motors.They did us proud ,Just wondering if you can shed any light on the subject. Cheers, BarrySorry cant really 35yrs + since I was there LAB was owned by Michael Latham;
He offered the job to me to run into Europe.first contracting to ski international (Manchester)
Jock Simpson was the other ex:LCT driver who lived and run out of Coventrywho was killed in France
The only Foden unit I remember was white which I had for a time then onto the electric lift Wagon an drag
Foden ,I remember that more because nobody wanted it because it was slow loading.But what they didn’t Know was there were 2 more 240bhp ERFs coming so I was lucky to cop for one.So you see waddy I cant tell more than
that.Mid 60ts all that happened.Moved on to Bowkers then.Both motors are on here bullnose merc+ wagon drag.
Ray Waddy ex:LCT.
guesty
fryske:
Up in North Staffs a month or so ago:
One of the last Gardner ERF eight wheeler’s made, 6LXDT 290.
Guesty44:
Lawrence Dunbar:
1Jaspers old motor, Regards Larry.Another great old English.My old ERF 500 bhp. 29-5 ton payload.
For a period of time my pal Mick Meadows run the night shift to castle cement
Coatbridge then I went back up to various parts of Scotland,within the legal time
to return and re-load ready for Mick.
when smiths run proper trucks with proper power
bumper:
photos these E-R-F’s heading south last month, a lot of showmen seem to run this model,john robson ran E-R-F’s reckoned they were bomb proof, bumper
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The ec 11 last pic on right was mine. Had 1.8 million on when it was parked up. Same engine and proper twin splitter gearbox never had a spanner on it and never used oil. Used to pull like a train. They were good work horses. Ect’s were nice to drive and had loads of space.
STRAIGHT EIGHT:
fryske:
Up in North Staffs a month or so ago:One of the last Gardner ERF eight wheeler’s made, 6LXDT 290.
KTH were doing a lot of tipper hire and hauling with the artics to RMS.
Cheers Dave.
is there any one who had regular nights out in the rest cab ?,just thinking that there isn’t a great deal of room back there
Guesty44:
1b.waddy:
Hi, Guesty , We bought two ex Lathams Foden units ,One was A Gardner 150 high speed diff reg no DTE 2// E , The other was a 180 H/ Diff LTD427 F ,Both flying motors.They did us proud ,Just wondering if you can shed any light on the subject. Cheers, BarrySorry cant really 35yrs + since I was there LAB was owned by Michael Latham;
He offered the job to me to run into Europe.first contracting to ski international (Manchester)
Jock Simpson was the other ex:LCT driver who lived and run out of Coventrywho was killed in France
The only Foden unit I remember was white which I had for a time then onto the electric lift Wagon an drag
Foden ,I remember that more because nobody wanted it because it was slow loading.But what they didn’t Know was there were 2 more 240bhp ERFs coming so I was lucky to cop for one.So you see waddy I cant tell more than
that.Mid 60ts all that happened.Moved on to Bowkers then.Both motors are on here bullnose merc+ wagon drag.
Ray Waddy ex:LCT.
The vehicles with electric lifts were built by Carter at Tamwoth they were popular but as mentioned very slow, the Carrimores were always the quickest to load. The Carters generally got more cars on as they were built more over length than the Carrimores.
GAZ70:
is there any one who had regular nights out in the rest cab ?,just thinking that there isn’t a great deal of room back there
Yes we would have 20-30 on the car transporters because the works sleeper was to high. Used Jennings cabs on the B & C series. Tried for years to get them to build a low roof works sleeper, which they did in the end I could never see what the problem was & why they took so long to do it.
transporter man:
GAZ70:
is there any one who had regular nights out in the rest cab ?,just thinking that there isn’t a great deal of room back thereYes we would have 20-30 on the car transporters because the works sleeper was to high. Used Jennings cabs on the B & C series. Tried for years to get them to build a low roof works sleeper, which they did in the end I could never see what the problem was & why they took so long to do it.
Jennings made an exstension for the E series rest cab, ive only ever seen a handful though. It would take the standard e series bunk.
Did you work for Minster Motors then Transporter man?
Chris.
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transporter man:
GAZ70:
is there any one who had regular nights out in the rest cab ?,just thinking that there isn’t a great deal of room back thereYes we would have 20-30 on the car transporters because the works sleeper was to high. Used Jennings cabs on the B & C series. Tried for years to get them to build a low roof works sleeper, which they did in the end I could never see what the problem was & why they took so long to do it.
Jennings made an exstension for the E series rest cab, ive only ever seen a handful though. It would take the standard e series bunk.
Did you work for Minster Motors then Transporter man?
Chris.
No Glendinning’s we had a fleet of ERF also on general. I know Rose & Ian at Minster think I could have been involved in them starting with ERF’s
Great drawing looks just like a photo well done
GAZ70:
is there any one who had regular nights out in the rest cab ?,just thinking that there isn’t a great deal of room back there
Baylis had a lot of rest cab E and EC’s, a number of guy would clock up 4 nights a week in them, by the time I joined though they were the oldest units on the fleet and mostly with days only men which ironically meant they did the most mileage as they were invariably the only units home midweek so the night men would get them. Eventually they bought a batch of ECX’s which all went to Leighton Buzzard (the only way to get the drivers to hand over the keys to their Scanias) and we got a few of the Scania’s to replace the rest cabs, but ironically most of the drivers preferred the EC’s to the Scanias which were all bag of nails.
These were fantastic lorries. I did Europe with them in the early '90s: 14-litre ■■■■■■■■ Eaton Twin-splitter 'boxes - loved them. Below are some pics I took when I was driving them on fridge work for BOC Euroshield. Robert
Hiya…i’ve known about these for a while but never bothered to move the photo…
we have rockwell axles…we have a ■■■■■■■ 14 litre rated at 480bhp…we have a fuller gearbox.
would you like one…its not what it looks like…its what it says.
they was built in Canada, most of them went to Zambia. the new version has a CF cab.
John