I canāt think which truck mag it was in but a couple of years ago, there was a haulier who bought some dirt cheap ECX motors (some from Spain) and theyād removed the MAN cabs and fitted EC ones. I wonder if you saw one of them?
Muckaway:
I canāt think which truck mag it was in but a couple of years ago, there was a haulier who bought some dirt cheap ECX motors (some from Spain) and theyād removed the MAN cabs and fitted EC ones. I wonder if you saw one of them?
Jon Golding bought some left hookers that were either sat in Spain unsold or never made it out there iirc
Muckaway:
I canāt think which truck mag it was in but a couple of years ago, there was a haulier who bought some dirt cheap ECX motors (some from Spain) and theyād removed the MAN cabs and fitted EC ones. I wonder if you saw one of them?
Jon Golding bought some left hookers that were either sat in Spain unsold or never made it out there iirc
A very nice fleet too. Sea Bea of Shenington near Banbury have at least one EC Olympic and an ECX, they do the odd show with them.
I keep seeing these things all over the place, even zippos circus had some on the M40 a few days ago, now there is a thread about them here, I swear I am being haunted! Everything else on the road (donkey boxes excluded) is at most 10 years old, then I keep seeing ERF E series trucks everywhereā¦weird!
The Germans have a very rude and uncomplimentary version of it
Well I know here it stands for Mean And Nasty
It actually stands for Machienfabric Augsburg Nurnburg or something like that
There version loosely translates to Excrement From/built in Nurnburg
Maybe you have a different German word for the letter āMā in M.A.N.
The German version Iāve heard is Murks aus NĆĀ¼rnberg.
Iād say itās uncomplimentary too, but I donāt think itās considered as rude.
Iād translate Murks as meaning āa botched jobā or āa ā ā ā ā -up,ā but Iād say that youāre spot-on with from Nuremburg (NĆĀ¼rnberg.)
Of all the recently deceased British marques, perhaps ERF had the best chance of survival? Fodens last fibreglass cabs had faults found on '70s British cars (draughty, ill fitting doors etc), Leyland had the embarassing British Leyland association with crap like Maestros, Maxis etc, even though Leyland Daf were pretty good. Sudden Accidents were awful (the demonstrator I drove was) and until I read the old time thread about favourite lorries, I hadnāt read a good thing about them on here.
George Starkey transport from Wrexham has a P reg EC on leaf springs and a rolls engine in it still working every day on lift tank work.
I seem to think its an ex united tanker one as the reg is something like P16 UTT.
toby1234abc:
Framptons down in cider country of Shepton still have a few on the road.
They had a pretty unusual ERF badged but BMC cabbed 18ton curtainsider on multi-drop that I used to see around not that long ago.
The BMC cabbed ERF has to be one of the worst trucks I have ever driven. It was called an EP6. Lynx Express had one on the ERF parts delivery contract at the Bothwell depot. Canāt think of anything good I could say about it. Hated driving it.
I am a big ERF fanā¦the first class 1 truck i drove was an ERF E10 325ā¦it was a brilliant truck and the twin splitter is in my opinion one of the best gearboxes to use once you got the knack of itā¦i would gladly drive an ERF todayā¦the company who i was on for recently had an E14 on air as a yard/trailer shunter but it was still in tidy condition and i told them to put it on the road and i would have drove it over the daf i was driving.
I have the pleasure of owning and driving the last ERF although its totally MAN, and if it wasnāt for emissions and noise restrictions imposed on us Iād be happier with an earlier ERF/FODEN with 14L ā ā ā ā ā ā ā Fuller Rockwell and jake. Only benefit i see is great living space and storage. Miss my 525 bhp erf and foden that i had previously.
Iāve driven far too many ERFs to really like them (I worked for Sammy Jones and Phillip Iddon) but I have to admit a grudging respect for the wagons and a real respect for those who ran and drove 'em.
It looks to me that MAN has taken over the mantle as the Gaffers Motor which is fine by me because I like driving them but I doubt they will ever establish a rep like ERFs.
Iāve only driven two for any length of time.Both EC14 Olympics.Three gripes looking back-parabolic springs,no A/C and a yukky brown plastic interior.Got let down once -just starting the climb to Sunbilla,clouds of steam,but temp.still ok.Got back to Irun and the very local agent eventually found a spare part that they hadnāt got (until ERF UK poked them with a sharp stick).It was a failed joint spraying some coolant directly onto the turbo.No image problems.Nice workplace.
