Certainly new on here. Lowe did European frigo work and favoured 6x4 Gardner-powered ERFs in various guises from LV-bodied, to B-series, C-series, E-series…
Someone on the circuit must know something about this C-series ERF!
It has a Cummins NTE 350 in it, but it’s only a 4x2. ERF only put 350s in the 6x4 version of the C-series. What’s the story? Is it a retro-fit? Or a factory special? Tell! Tell!
Probably a badge upgrade. 
Eaton twin splitter gearbox, they were like Marmite, you either hated them or loved them.
I hated them as could never get the revs right, what with no clutch, lots of loud grinding and crunching going on and stalling at the roundabouts.
C-series ERFs came with Fuller 9-sp RTX 11609A boxes, not Twin-splitters (though a handful of late ones received experimental TS boxes). Some Gardner-engined examples had Spicers. Twinsplitters came in with ERF’s E-series and were made standard on those.
Cheers mate.
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you could any engine you wanted in ERF 4x2 or 6x2 or 6x4
More or less, yes. The choice was Gardner, Cummins or Rolls Royce. But in some cases, only certain sized ones, or ones that matched well with the torque-settings of certain gearboxes. So, for example, you could have a 14-ltr Cummins 290 or 320 in a 4x2 but you could only have the 350 in the 6x4. My theory on this is that whereas a heavy-hauler might require the extra power in a 6x4, an over-zealous O/D might find a 350 in his general haulage machine less frugal than ERF wished to advertise. Mere conjecture on my part of course. And in fact they did put 350s and 400+ engines in the E-series that followed a handful of years later.
My profuse apologies, bradfordlad9999! I’ve just re-read your message and for some reason I had read it as a question (senior moment 
). It is of course a statement so you can disregard the waffle I gave above.
Your statement interests me greatly, because it means that you could order an NTE 350 in a 4x2 from the factory. That makes much more sense to me than what I believed to have been the case, based on what I’d read in books and spec sheets. I would imagine it just meant you had to order it specially rather than buy it off the shelf, so to speak. Can you confirm?
Do you have any Peter Gilder livestock photos to put up?
More of a Volvo man wasn’t he?
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I think he was, the Volvo’s certainly got a good bashing on the runs to Kazakhstan and back, the same for Ralph Davies and I’m not too sure but did they both try to sue the company to say the trucks should not have broken down so much and not fall to bits due to the harsh conditions, muddy roads with no Tarmac?
Indeed, the road to Khazakhstan isn’t paved with bitumen - I’ve met drivers who did it!
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A driver died from Legionnaires disease from infected shower water in a middle nowhere grotty truck stop.
That might have been Ganja TIR-park in Azerbaijan (en route). You didn’t dare open any orifice in the showers there for fear of death!
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That was the place, food poisoning was rife and drivers didn’t have enough immunity to fight off the new bacterial and viral strains lurking everywhere including the food and drink.
The electric kettle in there had a loop of wire and a naked flex (like you used to get on fairgrounds) and the trick was to turn on the kettle without electrocuting yourself. Here’s a pic I took in Ganja TIR-park .
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Blimey, it resembles a Russian or Chinese death execution camp, hence the expression: “Shot at dawn.”!