3300John:
Hiya Robert robert robert what can i say EEEEEEERRRRRFFFFFFF did’nt use names !!! what about poor old Sabrina…well i never.
that,s a red card you know…it might even be some type of epitaph in your book…LOL
John
But John! ‘Sabrina’ was only a drivers’ nickname, like the other examples A-J mentioned like the ‘Juke Box’ (brilliant name for the DAF 2600!). 
I can think of some more nicknames, like the ‘Mickey Mouse’ Foden, the ‘Threepenny Bit’ BMC - and the ERF NGC appears to be gaining the posthumous name of ‘Shed’!!! 
Robert
Retired Old ■■■■:
3300John:
hiya Jennings of Sandach made the cabs for hillmaster
John
So that’s why they looked so good! 
Its very much ERFish IMO, The cab I mean, Regards Larry.
I notice Beaver & Comet under AEC…should be Leyland.
AEC…Mammouth Major & Mammouth Minor
White…Road Boss, Road Commander, Road Xpeditor, even in mk2 version
International …Metro, Emeryville, Loadstar,Paystar (thus DAF 2500)
Ford…Transit, Louisville, Cargo, Transcontinental
ERF-Continental:
White…Road Boss, Road Commander, Road Xpeditor, even in mk2 version
International …Metro, Emeryville, Loadstar,Paystar (thus DAF 2500)
Ford…Transit, Louisville, Cargo, Transcontinental
Austin made a Loadstar too, during the early 1950s (pic below). I always thought it was rather a nice play on words, and a pun: a lodestar (not loadstar) being any star used for navigation purposes! Robert
I heard that Ford offered a choice of pope-mobiles: the Transubstantiator or the Transcendental. I think they went for the Incontinental in the end! Robert
Good day all ,
Not quite in the spirit of the thread but I thought you might like the name that was sign written on my KW by the boss, he reckoned he payed for the paint job so he picked the name. I might just add it wasn’t true but on a couple of occasions a week was mentioned but they are tales for the campfire lol
Cheers Dave
one i’ve always rather liked is the Nissan Diesel ‘BIG THUMB’
How about Dennis. Pax Hefty Defiant. Regards Charlie
Leyland Laird missing of the Leyland list
tonyj105:
one i’ve always rather liked is the Nissan Diesel ‘BIG THUMB’
This is probably the closest to the taboo suggestion that there might be any kind of relationship between the power and size of a truck, and the driver’s ■■■■! Why aren’t these manufacturers braver? We could have had the Scania Stiffie, the Henschel Hardon, the ERF Erection, the Leyland Lobbon and the Volvo Virile! Robert
To add to the list of nick-names, the bonneted version of the Scania (T-cab) was always called the ‘Torpedo’ on the continent. As for proper names: I think the most inspired name for a long-hauler has to be Ford’s ‘Transcontinental’, even if it was a bit of a mouthful. FH13 lists the name ‘Continental’ under Atkinson. I don’t think there was one, and I’m sure the LHD Krupp-cabbed effort was called something else to do with silver knights. Anyway it was the Bentley ‘Continental’ that stole that name back in the early '60s! Sometimes the ERF ‘European’ is erroneously referred to as the ERF ‘Continental’, but that habit seems to have died since this forum brought that particular model back into prominence (thanks to a crowd of us on here!). Perhaps Scania will come up with a model for us old ■■■■■ called the Scania ‘Incontinental’ - woops, better get my coat… Robert
intertype7:
When I was about 10 I enrolled in the Scammell Spotters Club, out of something I read in my father’s Motor Transport.
I used to get a monthly newsletter. I wonder if I am the only former member left?
I still have my scammell spotters club book and news letters,my lappel badge came from scammells factory at watford and it cost me
two shillings.
robert1952:
…As for proper names: I think the most inspired name for a long-hauler has to be Ford’s ‘Transcontinental’, even if it was a bit of a mouthful…
Equally evocative of its intended role: the Faun L10 Eurotrans, of 1962.
I remember driving a Vulcan 4 wheeler GUP 670 In the late 50s it was called a shed, Regards Larry.
Lawrence Dunbar:
I remember driving a Vulcan 4 wheeler GUP 670 In the late 50s it was called a shed, Regards Larry.
I almost forgot it had air conditioning, No brakes, Rattled itself to death, & had to have a whiff of aerostart summer & winter to get it fired up, Thank god I only went as far as Gateshead with it, I think it eneded its days with a Gateshead haulier H. Nichcol Ltd who were coal merchants at that time as well as hauliers, Happy days Eh, Regards Larry.
