I’ll put this up,les,so you can carry on posting 
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Thanks Beaunydel! I’ve dug a little deeper. The jury appears to be still out on the Bahrain C-series being a CP, as the CP range only offerd the 10 litre LTA 290 and not the 14 litre NTE 290 (which this one is). The 14 litre engine was only offered as the NTE 320 and 350 in ERF CPs.
[As an aside, I was interested to read that the NZ export C-series RHD 6x4s could have the NTE 370].
I’ll keep digging! 
Deanb found this for me:
He points out that the LHD one has C57 on the door (which is what the RHD 6x4s were badged, btw). I think this was because early C-series export 6x4s were based on the previous B-series C57s. Later C-series were badged C60, of course.
EDIT to add that the C57 above may have been a prototype or pre-production model as the early exports were badged C60 including the one shown at NEC motor show in '83.
By coincidence, I also took delivery today of Commercial Motor’s ERF 50th anniversary issue, dated 10/09/83. It mentions that the 220 ERF 6x4 units sent to Taseco in Saudi, had day cabs and NTE 290s with Fullers and Rockwell rear ends. We know that this was the standard set-up for UK RHD C40s and C57s and that they had Rockwell / Hendrickson rear ends. We know that early LHD sleeper-cabbed 6x4s like the one above had NTE 350s with Fuller RTX14609s and Kirkstall / Hendrickson rear ends. I suspect later ones were Rockwell / Hendrickson.
Here’s the page:
Here’s a pic of one of Taseco’s C-series 6x4s.
And here’s a blow-up of the C57
Happy days!
