M P Cab on this ERF
I also recall some great old British machinery at Holbrook Lane - presses built in Biddulph by Cowlishaw Walker, pumps by Mather & Platt and in the paint shop, huge girders with Dorman Long Middlesbrough embossed on them.
When they knocked the paint shop down, those girders were snapped like twigs by hydraulic jaws …
When the LAD cab was introduced by Leyland it went under the name of the ‘Vista-Vue’ due to its all round vision for the driver, the name didn’t really take off and the simpler LAD term was more often used and remembered today. Franky.
I remember well the Leyland drivers wanting to set off before midday of a Friday to get their load of cabs up the M6 to Leyland before it turned into a car park - they drove DAF 4 wheelers (De Rooy Transport) with a draw bar, 14 Leyland cabs in all if memory serves - I think they’d all done about 750,000 miles and were well ‘run in’ 
Coventry to Leyland Lancs on a Friday afternoon - no medal would be big enough for those lads (Albert, Phil et al) LOL! 
3300John:
Hiya i don,t know if it was motorpanels to blame for the rust. someone was producing some crap sheet steel in
the late 60s and 70s. how would MP know■■? i had a 1965 MG car it was 4 years old and as rotten as a pear but hadn’t
done 10,000miles(i was a panel beater and made a complete new floor for it). one car we have now is a 10 year
old toyota with 65,000 on the clock you cant find any rust anywhere on it. if only MP could have been supplied with
a better quality sheet steel we would have had motor paneled cabed lorries up to our ears. whoooppeeeee.
John
So Motor Panels had no Quality Control then, don’t blame the steel, if it was bad it should have been sent back.
Concerning ERF’s 7MW cab on the NGC model. Where is the paperwork? Does anyone know where the detailed cab design diagrams got to? I’d love to know. Please PM me if you have info but are reluctant to post. Cheers! Robert
First up my one and only new unit. 220 Rolls Royce Eagle (I still have some of the tool kit) 10 speed Fuller Road Ranger box, Kysor automatic radiator grill and best of all a level engine cover in the cab. Just a cushion or piece of foam between the seats and bed was made. Much better than the big hump in the ERF which needed a board onto the door which carried the risk of the driver being buried at sea should he forget to lock the door. Oh yes and it had Wind Up Windows (Something else to go wrong as MR V said) I had it from new for about 7 years with around 3 engine rebuilds, until eventually the seat mountings rusted away from the cab floor. Cost at new £6100.
As I said I was pleased as punch for a month until this turned up.
240 straight eight Gardner, 8 speed Eaton box and an 8 day tachograph. It even did a Baghdad trip with the driver sleeping in one of the Europeans. It froze up, got towed more than driven and came down a mountain in Turkey rather quicker than the driver would have liked.
Again I was responsible for it’s demise when the wiring under the dash caught fire at Kidderminster in 1981. 
zzarbean:
First up my one and only new unit. 220 Rolls Royce Eagle (I still have some of the tool kit) 10 speed Fuller Road Ranger box, Kysor automatic radiator grill and best of all a level engine cover in the cab. Just a cushion or piece of foam between the seats and bed was made. Much better than the big hump in the ERF which needed a board onto the door which carried the risk of the driver being buried at sea should he forget to lock the door. Oh yes and it had Wind Up Windows (Something else to go wrong as MR V said) I had it from new for about 7 years with around 3 engine rebuilds, until eventually the seat mountings rusted away from the cab floor. Cost at new £6100.1
As I said I was pleased as punch for a month until this turned up.
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240 straight eight Gardner, 8 speed Eaton box and an 8 day tachograph. It even did a Baghdad trip with the driver sleeping in one of the Europeans. It froze up, got towed more than driven and came down a mountain in Turkey rather quicker than the driver would have liked.
Again I was responsible for it’s demise when the wiring under the dash caught fire at Kidderminster in 1981.
A very nice, and interesting, little cameo in the histories of Eric Vick, Seddon, Motor Panels and the Middle-East run all rolled into one. Thank you, Zzarbean! Robert
used to deliver steel into mayflower for british steel late 90’s.remember seeing full mg car shells
Bumped up for CAV551. You started a new thread and then asked for it to be merged with this one, but it was easier to transfer your link direct to this one. I’ve deleted the new thread for you !
And here’s the link you provided for the new thread:
archive.commercialmotor.com/arti … end-seller
Robert
