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robthedog:
Early pioneer
Great photo Rob note the air stack up the back of the cab unusual for an AEC
Those Ergo sleeper cabs for Leylands/AECs weren’t as rare as you may think, especially in LHD; and they weren’t home brew, as they were factory built.
Who was JHW that looks like a well worked Mandator. Weren’t the high roof sleepers built by Sparshafts at Southampton?
There’s a lot about this on the AEC mandator V8 thread
Ramone,the J H W AEC was Geoff Frost who later went to Astran
robthedog:
There’s a lot about this on the AEC mandator V8 thread
I remember that discussion. Can’t work out whether those are my words, or the other fella (whose username also escapes me)! Whatever- we both learned a bit of interesting history, if I remember it correctly.
The first Ergo you posted, with the decoration on the front and a red tilt behind it, is a home-brew one, I think, as is the one pulling the other red tilt in Rowena’s “fleet”.
[zb]
anorak:robthedog:
There’s a lot about this on the AEC mandator V8 threadI remember that discussion. Can’t work out whether those are my words, or the other fella (whose username also escapes me)! Whatever- we both learned a bit of interesting history, if I remember it correctly.
The first Ergo you posted, with the decoration on the front and a red tilt behind it, is a home-brew one, I think, as is the one pulling the other red tilt in Rowena’s “fleet”.
Member ERF
robthedog:
[zb]
anorak:robthedog:
There’s a lot about this on the AEC mandator V8 threadI remember that discussion. Can’t work out whether those are my words, or the other fella (whose username also escapes me)! Whatever- we both learned a bit of interesting history, if I remember it correctly.
The first Ergo you posted, with the decoration on the front and a red tilt behind it, is a home-brew one, I think, as is the one pulling the other red tilt in Rowena’s “fleet”.
Member ERF
‘ERF’, who used to post on here, was a very knowledgable and reliable source of information.
As for the Ergo sleeper cabs: perhaps the Leyland ones were the factory ones (see the brochure I posted above) and the AECs were conversions.
ERF-NGC-European:
robthedog:
[zb]
anorak:robthedog:
There’s a lot about this on the AEC mandator V8 threadI remember that discussion. Can’t work out whether those are my words, or the other fella (whose username also escapes me)! Whatever- we both learned a bit of interesting history, if I remember it correctly.
The first Ergo you posted, with the decoration on the front and a red tilt behind it, is a home-brew one, I think, as is the one pulling the other red tilt in Rowena’s “fleet”.
Member ERF
‘ERF’, who used to post on here, was a very knowledgable and reliable source of information.
As for the Ergo sleeper cabs: perhaps the Leyland ones were the factory ones (see the brochure I posted above) and the AECs were conversions.
That sounds about right but i think i’ve seen a Mandator or Mammoth Major photographed new at Southall with a sleeper cab …
. ERF is the bloke who stopped posting on here , he spent quite a few years restoring a V8 , Graham had the good fortune of seeing it and said it was stunning
The early pioneer AEC above is reportedly a v8 mandator,hence the intake is just extended up from the normal position behind the front wheelarch.
Steve
ramone:
That sounds about right but i think i’ve seen a Mandator or Mammoth Major photographed new at Southall with a sleeper cab …
. ERF is the bloke who stopped posting on here , he spent quite a few years restoring a V8 , Graham had the good fortune of seeing it and said it was stunning
The AEC V8 thread has a good few “factory” sleepers on it, plus lots of Sparshatts high-roof conversions. I think the latter conversion was a 6 cylinder job, initially. No way would 2 bunks fit above the ordinary Ergo engine hump.
Sleep tight ! NMP off FB
ERF-NGC-European:
Those Ergo sleeper cabs for Leylands/AECs weren’t as rare as you may think, especially in LHD; and they weren’t home brew, as they were factory built.43210
i seriously cant believe some of those options , a fully reclining passenger seat with a vibrating pad, in 1968 !!! , rear window blind ,on a leyland of all things crikey word fail me .
tony