Franglais:
It appears that the air intake for the bulk blower is low down and could also ■■■■ in exhaust gases if the original exhaust were used? Another potential issue avoided by a high exhaust?
That’s a fair point to make.
It was quite an early factory option from ERF.
It required a rear exit exhaust manifold usually specified for marine use to be fitted to Gardner engines.
kmills:
Buzzer:
Well in my time I have paid out quite a bit on Eminox exausts as has been mentioned it freed up space on the chassis and I used to have boxes made to stow gear in like toolboxes and oil cans etc, they were not a cheap item back in the day and I can remember taking motors to them for while you wait fitting think they had a place in Abington IIRC. to be honest I never had a quibble about quality and found them to be sound. The first examples I had were on a 141 as in the picture below and also had one fitted on the first new motor I bought which was a Globetrotter in 1986.
When we had our first FH Volvo’s the factory upright exausts used to lean out so you could not fit the wind deflector kit that side so we got MC truck & Bus to cut and shut the frame so we could fit the kit, once we had that done on the first four in early 94 every body else followed suit and in the end Volvo modified it before it left the factory.
Eminox and other upright exausts are ok to a point, more glitz and glamour really and if they were not high enough the exaust gases could make a hell of a mess on a tilt of worse on a white fridge box, cheers Buzzer.By the time that I was dealing with Eminox - they wanted the vehicle for a week IIRC - reluctantly they made a kit up and I fitted it, but it never fitted very at all, and it leaked quite a bit - which in their words would “seal itself up in time” - that was on a DAF XF- not exactly a ‘rare’ vehicle either…, I guess that they didn’t like sending kits out for others to fit, as they were never easy to deal with.
Re the exhaust making a mess of trailers - I can’t remember who it was, but when I was an owner driver, one of the European fridge companies wouldn’t let anyone with upright exhausts pull their trailers, can’t remember who it was though - you’ve certainly got the exhaust up high on your Volvo there, and the front of the fridge is looking good…
Cheers, Keith
When I was on Dawsons we had a lad pick up a brand new chereau reefer with a deep pin from Pompey docks with a short wheelbase F10 by the time he’d got to Milton Keynes he had melted the front corner of the trailer, he never collected another one !!
ERF:
It was quite an early factory option from ERF.
It required a rear exit exhaust manifold usually specified for marine use to be fitted to Gardner engines.
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It’s a very young Mrs Read, wife of haulier & ERF dealer Richard, standing next to a new artic due for delivery to her brother-in-law, Tracey.
Vertical exhausts have been around longer than you old crocks! 
