One for “Mark R” Towmaster
ERF Reg No HHR 118N was registered new in April 1975.
It finished up on the fairground circuit until October 1993 by which time it was eighteen years old.
Photograph courtesy of John Gibbs.
moomooland:
1ERF Reg No HHR 118N was registered new in April 1975.
It finished up on the fairground circuit until October 1993 by which time it was eighteen years old.0HHR 118N seen here at Worcester Race Course on the 18th of May 1989.
Photograph courtesy of John Gibbs.
Well spotted Paul, you are good at finding them !! 
coomsey:
Well Robert n Moomooland I’ve read both your posts (more than once, I’m not prepared to give an exact figure) n seem to see where you’re coming from. ERF were as bad as Foden seems you had to be on the ball to order n get what you wanted.
Any way this particular motor doesn’t make sense to me.R reg you would imagine it wouldn’t have come off the production line? I would have thought B series by then. If old stock still a mystery has to an 8whlr with that cab. Stretched tractor, why would you? Buy a trailer. I’ve never seen an 8whlr with that cab, are there others? N if this is off the production line is it an A series 8whlr, something I’ve been told doesn’t exist?
N who in their right mind would spend 1/2hr levelling load of coal?
ERF experimented with an 8-wheeler A-series but didn’t make any. I think what people forget is that during, and well into, the mid-'70s and even beyond, ERF were making several different models all at the same time (overlapping each other’s production runs). The A-series tractor units, older-design LV-cabbed rigids and units, B-series, all the metal-cabbed models (like the NGCs, MGCs, MDCs etc) were all rolling off the production line. Robert
Reed AEC Mercury think the Reg No should be SKO 511H.
Publicity companies had a habit of airbrushing number plates on adverts in those days, so the picture would not become dated to quick.
DEANB:
windrush:
I was just going to post some more ERF pics as well Dean, but you beat me to it! Regarding levelling the load, I presume the driver (a Derbyshire based one so used to doing the job right!Pete.
Never ever seen anyone level it like that though Pete!!
But Pete he didn’t sheet it 
Singles n above never sheeted, always light at the other end but not wind thieving bastuds at the yard
moomooland:
1ERF Reg No HHR 118N was registered new in April 1975.
It finished up on the fairground circuit until October 1993 by which time it was eighteen years old.0HHR 118N seen here at Worcester Race Course on the 18th of May 1989.
Photograph courtesy of John Gibbs.
Bludy ell you couldn’t move for them. Must have been going round with me eyes shut.
So LV chassis with A series cab, using stock up? R reg probably stood for a while in the corner.
Couple of P-reg ERFs, so could have been new in '76, just before the R-reg came out. Robert
Medication Dean? 4 pints of Pedi to be taken before meals, can’t get a prescription for it mind
DEANB:
One for “gazsa401” StirlandsSeddon Atkinson.
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Thanks for that photo DEANB
Here’s a picture of trailer JS 82 with another axle fitted and refurbished for a contract Stirlands had for over 30 years with Raleigh Bicycles in Nottingham 
DEANB:
One for “Mark R” Towmaster0
Wow awesome pic, exactly the same as my Uncle used to drive. Thank you.
DEANB:
Mitchell Cotts transport ERF4
CE & CA Wagstaff tidy F10
wagstaffs from doncaster dean, used to do a lot of work off goole docks.
3Eastern BRS ERF
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MPI Atkinson low loader.
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Dean Haulage smart ERF. Look how the driver has levelled the load off !!!
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windrush:
Regarding levelling the load, I presume the driver (a Derbyshire based one so used to doing the job right
I used to always level tippers and bulkers.It took just a few minutes or less by dragging the tipped edge of the same shovel bucket used to load it,across the top.
Jacmi Transport of Hull was owned by J Marr (Seafoods} Ltd of Hessle near Hull.
J.Marr are still very much in business today J. Marr website
We used to service and repair Marrs fleet of BMC FG’s based at Hook, Hants, when I worked in Reading back in the early 70’s. Garage reeked of fish for days! Changed a spring on a Foden S36 of theirs as well once.
Pete.
Some crackers have appeared just recently Deano pal. More power to your elbow sonny! 
The pic of Dave Hulme’s ERF was a long way from home as he usually carted aggregates from Peakstone quarry at Dove Holes to Pioneer concrete at Chadderton and other depots. The one I meant is reproduced along with another of Hulmes tipping at Chadderton back in the day.
I also loved seeing Ian Bolshaw’s Octopus the other week. Never knew he ran one! Here’s a B series he ran well into the 80s.
Nice to see Coopers Dean ,I wondered how long it would be ,my Dad had up to 14 subbies a day in smethwick dept at one time ,he moved coopers scrap from the early 70s until retirement in 2005 ,I can’t remember when but they were bought out by EMR , he went to places like lydney,sharpness ,Sheffield, Alwarke,Smac,swallow nest ,Gkn sheep-bridge ,kiverton park ,fishers Lincoln ,Baxi bamber bridge,Liverpool docks ,weir todmorden ,Eccles,qualcast,Stanton and staveley,forgemasters,river Don castings, by water pipes clay cross,William lees Dronfield,stillington County Durham,he also bought in the big rough stuff from the demolition of hams hall power station,some loads would be new range rovers to be crushed 3 in a tipper body ,I went passed coopers old place in Swindon yesterday .
