@@rogerquartermaine6073 Mega mate, the TwinSplitter behind a Cummins in both the E and EC was a legendary gearbox I loved too....once I got some practice in. Haha I can't believe they axed it cos of the "external noise pollution"....Stupid Twats!. All the best, legend👍🏻
Very sad that ERF no longer exists to make trucks in this country. I still smile when i see an ERF as i spent many a school holiday in the cab of one with my Dad.
When we built the best trucks every truck was built with pride the b series c series helped them to compete with the likes of Volvo Scania great footage of sun works a truly remarkable place one I would have loved to visit
Every time watch this it gets better these were true work horses you had to be to drive these not just steer them a true British company making a product that was a head of its time
I always give the 🤘🏻 every time I see an ERF or Foden on the road these days. Like their drivers are even bothered about a salute from the driver of a grubby DAF XF 😂
7:32, chamberlain of haslington are still going. I think they run MAN now. Turners of Much Hoole run ECX’s. Seaways services of Altham run a couple of ECX’s
I served my apprenticeship at a large Manchester haulage contractor who ran ERF vehicles whenever they were available to buy and even ordered them 2years ahead of the build time,the vehicles were great quality and if you needed spares they were readily available by calling Norman who worked in the stores at ERF. This man knew every model they made and after giving him the model number he would know exactly what you wanted and dispatch it by rail to be collected from Manchester London Road which is now Piccadilly a couple of hours later,how’s that for service ??? I don’t know why ERF sold out to MAN because their order book was always full, Gardner engine’s didn’t help with their abysmal engine production and delivery times,not everyone wanted Cummins or Rolls Royce engines but couldn’t get the Gardner and that’s what opened the door to Scania and Volvo who were there ready and able to supply reliable vehicles and have never looked back,what a shame this had to happen.
ERF called it a day because there sales were not good, they were never really a major manufacturer making about 4,000 trucks per annum up until the early 1980s recession when sales fell in 1981 to just 1,083 trucks for the year, after that their numbers never fully recovered and ERF was bought by Canadian manufacturer Western Star in 1996. Sold to Man in 2000, and production of ERFs continued up until it was discovered that fraud had been committed by ERF, the ERF factory was closed in 2002 and production of the ERF was moved to Munich Germany, in 2007 it was decided by Man to end the ERF brand altogether.
I remember working in maclasfeald foundry we made parts for e r f trucks would u believe I got paid a lot mour than nowadays a lot mour plus times was a lot better people were mour friendly💜💜💜
Classic UK shed engineering and they were good at it, but the Scandinavian and German manufacturers were not lashing up other people components they were doing the lot and that includes the servicing and financing and of course they had European wide service networks. If you were venturing outside the UK, you were not going to get anything like their support from ERF. As the market moved to where the profits are in finance and servicing rather than selling the metal, the UK manufacturers were doomed, ERF selling out to MAN and that was principally as ERF with their relatively light glassfibre cab had come to dominate the weight UK fuel tanker fleets and MAN wanted to flip those fleets to them.
Very good video, I enjoyed watching it, I remember these ERF's, I more or less grew up with them, thank you for posting this video, very interesting 👍
Erf ec11 and ec6 are some of my favorite british made trucks
Been lucky enough to have driven B,C,E and EC series trucks and loved them all.
Mint but how well did you do the TwinSplitter😉👍🏻
I loved the twin- splitter box, a really great step forward from anything I had driven before.
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Mega mate, the TwinSplitter behind a Cummins in both the E and EC was a legendary gearbox I loved too....once I got some practice in. Haha
I can't believe they axed it cos of the "external noise pollution"....Stupid Twats!.
All the best, legend👍🏻
Brings back a lot of memories supplying ERF, and to see Brian Robinson the quality manager.
Very sad that ERF no longer exists to make trucks in this country. I still smile when i see an ERF as i spent many a school holiday in the cab of one with my Dad.
When we built the best trucks every truck was built with pride the b series c series helped them to compete with the likes of Volvo Scania great footage of sun works a truly remarkable place one I would have loved to visit
A great insight to what is now long gone...
The British government should have saved this industry
I believe our manufacturing industry has been deliberately disbanded to ensure a dependantcy on being in the enslavement of the EU.
Good upload scotty
Every time watch this it gets better these were true work horses you had to be to drive these not just steer them a true British company making a product that was a head of its time
Until the Germans came along and put a stop to it all.
One of my favourite trucks ❤️ of all times
I always give the 🤘🏻 every time I see an ERF or Foden on the road these days. Like their drivers are even bothered about a salute from the driver of a grubby DAF XF 😂
7:32, chamberlain of haslington are still going. I think they run MAN now.
Turners of Much Hoole run ECX’s. Seaways services of Altham run a couple of ECX’s
I served my apprenticeship at a large Manchester haulage contractor who ran ERF vehicles whenever they were available to buy and even ordered them 2years ahead of the build time,the vehicles were great quality and if you needed spares they were readily available by calling Norman who worked in the stores at ERF. This man knew every model they made and after giving him the model number he would know exactly what you wanted and dispatch it by rail to be collected from Manchester London Road which is now Piccadilly a couple of hours later,how’s that for service ??? I don’t know why ERF sold out to MAN because their order book was always full, Gardner engine’s didn’t help with their abysmal engine production and delivery times,not everyone wanted Cummins or Rolls Royce engines but couldn’t get the Gardner and that’s what opened the door to Scania and Volvo who were there ready and able to supply reliable vehicles and have never looked back,what a shame this had to happen.
ERF called it a day because there sales were not good, they were never really a major manufacturer making about 4,000 trucks per annum up until the early 1980s recession when sales fell in 1981 to just 1,083 trucks for the year, after that their numbers never fully recovered and ERF was bought by Canadian manufacturer Western Star in 1996. Sold to Man in 2000, and production of ERFs continued up until it was discovered that fraud had been committed by ERF, the ERF factory was closed in 2002 and production of the ERF was moved to Munich Germany, in 2007 it was decided by Man to end the ERF brand altogether.
I remember working in maclasfeald foundry we made parts for e r f trucks would u believe I got paid a lot mour than nowadays a lot mour plus times was a lot better people were mour friendly💜💜💜
A British classic
Classic UK shed engineering and they were good at it, but the Scandinavian and German manufacturers were not lashing up other people components they were doing the lot and that includes the servicing and financing and of course they had European wide service networks. If you were venturing outside the UK, you were not going to get anything like their support from ERF. As the market moved to where the profits are in finance and servicing rather than selling the metal, the UK manufacturers were doomed, ERF selling out to MAN and that was principally as ERF with their relatively light glassfibre cab had come to dominate the weight UK fuel tanker fleets and MAN wanted to flip those fleets to them.
ERF didn't sell out to man, ERF was bought by Canadian manufacturer Western Star in 1996, it was they who sold ERF to Man in 2000.
i think at AEC ltd we showed the way forward, we had our own engines and built off road trucks.!
Trucks then: Puure engineering, all technical and masculine
Trucks now: WAAA YOU CANT USE THIS TRUCK I NEED MORE PIG PISS
These companies should have been saved, erf ,foden,sex Leyland to name just a few,.
I DRIVED FOR D.W COOK CORNWALL. EX WINCANTON .E.R.F ON A MARITIME CONTRACT AVONMOUTH. AND A PLEASURE IT WAS.