Delighted to see an interest in the old ERF Europeans. There seems to be a little confusion here about the 5MW and 7MW. These were the names given to the Motor Panels cabs by ERF (the bow-fronted split-windscreen job being the 5MW and the Scania 140 lookalike being the 7MW. The 7MW (NGC 420) is easy to identify because it had its own chassis and cab and only came in LHD (except Pountains example, which was on an older chassis and originally had a 5MW cab). The 5MW cab appeared on the old chassis that the LV and MV day cabs normally went on; but the 5MW cab also appeared on the A-series chassis in RHD form and on a modified LHD version of the chassis later on and was called the MGC 380. It appears that the MGC 380, the NGC 420 and the early LHD B-series were all three launched as ‘Europeans’ but only the NGC 420 continued to be marketed under that name. I have written a book about the NGC 420 with the 7MW cab called ‘LORRIES OF ARABIA: THE ERF NGC 420’ (by Robert Hackford) It is now with Old Pond Publishing and should hopefully appear on the shelves this spring.
Great to see your contributions Cookie: you’ve insipired me to write to Trucknet after all these years.
Happy New Year to all!
Robert