Hiya…i think maybe ERF run so many cabs at one time to keep customers happy the same as Volvo with the F88 sleeper cab F88
day cab…F89 sleeper F89 day cab G 88 sleeper cab G 88 day cab N88 and F86 wow when you really think about what the Sweeds
really did its a bit of a shock …10 cabs on the go at one time and you cant say they was interchangable without treatment
F10 flat top F 10 high roof F 10 globetrotter F 4 F6 F7…FL 10sleeper FL10 day cab FL10 globe trotter FL 12day cab FL 12 sleeper FL12 globetrotter
and the FL12 bonneted wow Volvo marketed some cabs did nt they… i don t know if ERF ever made that many cabs in all their years
assembling lorries
John
Hiya just a quick mention about erf and their designs in the late 60s ERF trucks was on a 12 month waiting list a customer may have
ordered a 7lv cab for his A series chassis… the 5 MW cab come along within that waiting time. ERF trucks was nt mass produced like Volvo
as you know
another thing!!! i don t know if motor panels could supply erf with as many cabs as they wanted…maybe the CKD cabs ERF got hold
of was sort of spare or not gone onto MP.s cab line. thats why Jennings assembled the cabs…remember Seddon Guy Scammell was selling alot of
trucks at that time cheaper than ERFs…where as ERF always got hold of Gardner engines in the early years they could nt get hold of MP cabs
when they wanted them…we have no one to tell us its just a guess…
I’m jolly glad you came back to us John3300 - there are times when I don’t know where we’d be without you. Keep posting, old thing! Robert 
newmercman:
Here’s another cab to add to the list.
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I’d forgotten about that one.
Oddly enough, just before ERF finally succumbed, what were they doing? That’s right- launching new cabs onto the market, like mad. Did they not have three dustcart cabs on the go at once (EM, ECL(?) and EU, from memory) while, at the time, their top-of-the-range tractor had a development of an earlier dustcart cab (ECX Olympic)?
They also had the Steyr cab on the ES6 (?) and that weird wedge shaped BMC thing too, I think they were sold ex works as skip loaders.
3300John:
Hiya…i think maybe ERF run so many cabs at one time to keep customers happy the same as Volvo with the F88 sleeper cab F88
day cab…F89 sleeper F89 day cab G 88 sleeper cab G 88 day cab N88 and F86 wow when you really think about what the Sweeds
really did its a bit of a shock …10 cabs on the go at one time and you cant say they was interchangable without treatment
F10 flat top F 10 high roof F 10 globetrotter F 4 F6 F7…FL 10sleeper FL10 day cab FL10 globe trotter FL 12day cab FL 12 sleeper FL12 globetrotter
and the FL12 bonneted wow Volvo marketed some cabs did nt they… i don t know if ERF ever made that many cabs in all their years
assembling lorries
John
The comparison between 5 MW,NGC and B series isn’t exactly the same thing as that between the different respective contemporary designs of Volvo.IE they were all more or less aimed at the same type of application ( heavy/top end sector ) and all either could have been in the case of the NGC/if not were in the case of the others made to suit the sleeper/day cab choice.The only difference between them being the unarguable obsolecence in the 5 MW arguably to an even greater degree than the F88 at least regards tilt ability,the compromise of a large element of plastic type construction in the B series,v the arguable state of the art all metal and tilt NGC.In which case at least in the case of the 5 MW the analogy was like Volvo having kept the F88 in production after the F10/12 was introduced.While the NGC and B series in production together would have been like the F10 and F12 being totally different cabs regards construction at least. 
This pic is down-under and shows a 1969 unit with a ■■■■■■■ 250 and 15-speed Fuller; and the cab must be 3MW. Robert
Here is one of three 5MW pics to be found in the book, Classic and Vintage Commercials on ERF. Robert
robert1952:
Here is one of three 5MW pics to be found in the book, Classic and Vintage Commercials on ERF. Robert0
that was Alberts lorry before GEH…i think the problem with the 5MW tilt was MP,s fault. they mustn’t have put enough strength
in the cab structure for it to tilt.they maybe thought there was no need for tilt cabs…saying that we could have put strenght into
the floor as we made all of that and the front dash/scuttle.
in all the years i,ve had ERF (CAST OFFS) it isn’t often we did any engine repairs
i had an engine rebuild on PER when she was about 8 years old and PRF knocked no 8 piston out one day when i was loading
bricks with the hiab.she was about 8 years when that happened.
then i had VED 571S a 14 litre ■■■■■■■ which had the cab up frequently. daily sometimes twice a day…mind you she’d done a
lot of miles when i got her.she was EX Wardell continental lorry
John
I’d love to get behind the wheel of this. Robert
when John Turner saw REH398M for sale in Beeches he bought it on the moment, he’d gone for spares for his ERF fleet.
when he saw REH for sale he just bought it.his brother Andrew (not in the company only a driver) seid john come home
and said you’ll not believe it i just got a erf tractor unit with a steel cab.
John
ERF:
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Nice pic, ERF! A handsome repose. Robert
A caged lion in Cornwall… Robert
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