ERF-Continental:
For the second picture:John 3300 would say “what was in the bin” hence 'old’Lucas indicators and west-coast-mirrors but
that was something CDB perhaps installed and had leftovers from White and Autocar.
Good point.
ERF-NGC-European:
Two more of Richard Pountain’s pics.
Cracking pics of the best looking one in my opinion,even though it was not originally one ! 
Heres it is freshly converted with new cab and engine,etc.
How’s this for a cracking picture of the Eric Vick pair of NGCs - in Iraq by the look of it. And a text-book example of that Middle-East patina dusting well-travelled lorries.
It’s a new pic on here. Quite made my day!
One thing strikes me about the ^^^above picture is that one has the Eric Vick lettering in an arc on the cab door and the other has it written in a straight line. Well, we know that KFH 249P was re-liveried with the straight-line version but it never occurred to me that perhaps KFH 248P wasn’t re-liveried. I’ve just checked all my pics of the two units and none shows 248 with the later livery. So perhaps it was never repainted. Ro
Just to clarify then: I identify the facing unit to be KFH 248P (green/blue air-deflectors plus arced signwriting) and the nearest unit as KFH 249P.
Good old Cookie has drawn my attention to yet another magnificent Chris Morrison Middle-East shot of KFH 248P, as follows:
It’s like Christmas on here this week! Another shot of 248P with one of Eric Vick’s Middle-East spreadies.
Great new pics Ro,its amazing that they keep turning up. 
N-06-55 on temporary Dutch plate before becoming 41-54-NB. It had the ■■■■■■■ 335 with Fuller 9-sp box. Owner driver Barend Sjouw bought it ex-demo at the Amsterdam show in '76.
Very nicely painted vehicle^^^. The blue band disguises the awkward “step” a bit, and goes well with the sunvisor. The wheels are very smart. The whole thing looks classy. You would look after it, if your employer gave it to you, to drive.
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Very nicely painted vehicle^^^. The blue band disguises the awkward “step” a bit, and goes well with the sunvisor. The wheels are very smart. The whole thing looks classy. You would look after it, if your employer gave it to you, to drive.
I agree. Some thought had clearly gone into the painting of this cab and chassis. The o/d had obtained it via Best Imports, who were the ERF importers for Holland. He exchanged it for a B-series a year later. That would coincide with the availability of the then newly released full Europeanised higher roofed sleeper cab version of the B-series. However, Wobbe Reitsma, in one of his REVS articles hints that he switched to the B-series because it was more frugal, so it is quite possible that he simply bought one of the less powerful B-series with the 250 ■■■■■■■■ especially if he was only doing dock traction work in the flat landscape of the Netherlands. Nonetheless one wonders, then, what became of this handsome NGC in 1977. Another little research project for you NGC detectives out there!
Ro
A very nice pic taken by Ken Beresford of JDF 132N. It is seen here on JCB work. It started life as a demo on lease to Grocott from Beech’s Garage in Stoke on Middle-East work . It was for a while based in Le Havre on French plates doing local collections. Finally, it ended up back in the Middle-East with Trans Arabia in Jeddah as fleet No. 125. It had an NTC 335 and 9-sp Fuller box.
Looking back at some of my notes, I find odd items that neither appear in the books nor on this thread. As reported elsewhere, Hans Burkhard of Zurich in Switzerland operated two NGCs, one of them on Middle-East work. One of these, registered ZH120919 (number 13 on my register), was eventually cannibalized for its running gear, which was installed in a Henschel F191 draw-bar outfit. It was the one ‘Harry’ on here drove and thought little of! Hans, on the other hand reported that it had performed very well. Unfortunately, this rebuild proved not to be a very successful venture. However, I have here a picture of the Henschel, kindly supplied to me by my Swiss correspondent, Rene Tanner.
If I had to have a sizeable motor home, then this would be my weapon of choice, especially as it was a rare example of an NGC with the big-cam 290 in it! Pountains Heavy Haulage had a bit of a sideline in truck racing in the days when it was fashionable. Richard Pountain, who took the photo below, sent the outfit all over Europe to race meets. The unit, HNV 59N, had belonged to ■■■■■■■ who had used it to try out the new big cam NTE 290. He bought it from Vee & Inline Diesels of Daventry and eventually sold it on to Watts Trucks of Newport where it continued to haul truck-race trailers; it then passed on to Redcap Transport on the same work. It finally went to Mick Jones who scrapped it.
Photo by Richard Pountain.
