ERF 'European' (1975)

Carryfast:

ERF-NGC-European:
There’s a chapter on this in Lorries of Arabia 3 :wink:

Hopefully it goes along the lines of an ex fire truck test driver raised issues outside of these pages concerning ERF’s choice of gearing in the form of direct drive Fuller v over drive version.That seemingly being based on erroneous worries concerning prop shaft speed when the prop would obviously have been turning at the same speed at the equivalent road speed but the engine speed would…:smiley:

Where does it say that makers fitted low gears to keep propshaft speeds down?