For those just looking at the most recent posting, please note that I’ve just posted almost two pages of ‘new’ stuff on the thread this afternoon. Robert 
robert1952:
For those just looking at the most recent posting, please note that I’ve just posted almost two pages of ‘new’ stuff on the thread this afternoon. Robert
Robert
Where’s this lot come from ?
Ken
Kenb:
robert1952:
For those just looking at the most recent posting, please note that I’ve just posted almost two pages of ‘new’ stuff on the thread this afternoon. RobertRobert
Where’s this lot come from ?
Ken
I posted all the ERF ones on the ERF threads a long time ago, especially on the ERF European 1975 thread. As I pointed out at the start of today’s batch, Jerry Cooke provided me with a large number of them, and shortly afterwards Mick Jones send me another load. Neither is keen to post on TNUK (though both of them very rarely actually do post); and they were happy for me to post them on the ERF threads. John Davies took some of them as well. BTW these are all scans: I do not possess a single original photo.
Looking through this thread this morning, I suddenly realized that some people interested in Trans Arabia may not have been prepared to trawl through hundreds of pages of ERF material, so I decided to deliver it all on a plate - hope you are enjoying it! Robert
Jerry Cooke put Trans Arabia firmly back in the transport historians’ domain some time ago. He wrote an excellent piece for REVS (ERF) magazine and was later interviewed by Heritage Motor magazine. I reproduce both of them here, as they certainly deserve a place on this thread! Robert
Thanks for all that Robert.
This was very much my era in Saudi, and I knew all the contributors at the time. Absolutely fascinating stuff.
At Caravan we bought our ERFs from Star commercials and one of our trucks is shown in one of Jerry’s photos - we repainted it in Caravan’s colours.
I have more photos somewhere - but I can’t find them!
Keep up the good work everybody.
John
Cheers! I’ve found a few more in another file, but I think most of them I took from this thread. Incidentally, a small number of these pictures (overall) came from other Middle-East threads posted by people like Backsplice. Robert
What’s the story behind the visors? That batch of 4x2 B-series with ■■■■■■■ 290s and 13-speed Fullers, believed to have been a cancelled Swiss order, are lined up here. They’re brand new and sport sun visors, yet in all the pictures of them in service none of them has a sun visor! Did they fall off? Were they transferred to more deserving vehicles (if that’s possible)? Sold to Caravan Trucking? 
Robert 
The driver of this old ERF is Yoyo, I understand. The pic is one of Mick Jones’s. Robert
Woops! A couple more that slipped through the net. I have written in some detail about most of the ERF vehicles posted on here today, but on the various ERF threads (especially the ERF European 1975 thread, the LHD ERF 5MW thread and the LHD B-series ERFs thread), with some dates and details of engines, gearboxes etc. It would take me a long time to replicate all that on here but the info is there for anyone who wants to know. Or, of course, there’s the book… Robert
