Last of your 'Five a day' Biglorryblog posts (or anyway at least for this morning). And it's by way of a request from my beloved anorak army. In addition to this (I assume) all metal cab ERF also produced a boxy square 'European' export model, again ion steel. I seem to recall TRUCK magazine testing it over its Eurotest route. And I'd rather like to get hold of some pictures of it to put up on the blog. Something 'The Brochure King' might be able to help me with? Meanwhile, where did this cab pictured above come from and click through here for a quick pie quiz....
Now how about this?
Or this?
And this?
And this
And this..
And that's your lot..how did you do?
Well, the European ERF had a Motor Panels cab, shared with Seddon, Guy, Scammell, Atkinson (yes, really, for a few export tractors), Argyle, FTF, Shelvoke and undoubtedly many more besides. I expect the tooling was paid for!
And the rest? Well, the first is Berliet (as per Transcon), the second is MP (the Argyle 'Christina') and is the fourth a re-skinned Ford Cargo?
Please answer one question for me, are any Argyle's still in existance? or do you have any info on them? I have seen odd pictures but know very little more than that
thanks Glenn
Number 4 is from Turkey, newest version of the Ford Cargo. And Beyel Brothers' big dog is a Cline, made in Kansas City, Missouri.
The yellow cabover is not a Berliet. It is a Sonacome TB350 built by SNVI in Algeria. This company started to assemble Berliet based truck and bus chassis in 1975. They also produce a bonneted truck, the C260, and an off-road 6x6 chassis, the M230. Plus all sorts of trailers.
Hi Glen - Apparently 25 Argyle Christinas were built but unfortunately none are believed to survive.
PS - I wish I had charged Brian for that photo now, the number of times he's had it on here!
There was an Argyle, called the Trilby or something like, working on heavy internal transport (slag pots etc.) in a steelworks somewhere, what it looked like or whether it still exists I do not know.
Saurer tractor and possibly a Mercedes?
Fourth picture from top is definitely a Swiss SAURER tractor from the 1960s (the same cab was used by BERNA in a badge-engineering exercise).
The second shot from bottom puzzles me, but I have a sneaking feeling this may ba a Mercedes with a coachbuilt cab, possibly, again, made in Switzerland (or maybe Italy). The headboard and cab roof rack are Swiss-style, while the headlamps and front axle wheels seem reminiscent of Mercedes from that era. So is the radiator grille, very similar to the grilles seen on normal control Mercedes of that time.
Is the triangle plate on the front bumper an Italian sign denoting a drawbar outfit?
Indeed, Niels - I meant only that it had a Berliet cab, sorry.