ERF-NGC-European:
Someone ages ago suggested that more than 91 NGCs were built. The ERF archives only show 91 however.We have to remember that although my register shows 95 NGCs, there is still potentially an awful lot of slack in the findings. Consider the following:
No. 38. The French unit 2758W92 was a demonstrator with Laiteries Preval of Vire, so it probably doubles with another one we’ve already logged.
No. 56. Likewise: another French demonstrator (red and white) which haven’t yet matched to a subsequent operator.
No. 77. This was a French drawbar outfit sighted by a pretty reliable transport historian / photographer, but there are no pictures to confirm this.
No. 78. Ditto. My reliance on pictorial evidence cannot be over-emphasised, because so many ‘reliable’ sightings have turned out to be 5MWs.
No. 80. The Wagner, Jemet Gossiliers of Belgium is again only rumoured.
No. 81. This remains a mystery, though a concrete one! The Dutch advert showing considerable detail about this unit, including its olive green livery, still doesn’t tell us who operated it. We thought it might be Prooi but both Rene Postma and Wobbe Reitsma spoke to Prooi and they are adamant that Prooi only ever operated a B-series ERF.
No. 82. We know about the Willemstein / Damco G+G unit but this 2nd one remains unconfirmed.
No. 85. The picture we have of this shows a drawbar outfit still in primer at the factory. It may well be one of the drawbar outfits we already know about.
No. 86. The Bahrain unit remains another very tenuous and inconclusive sighting. As we’ve discussed before, it may have been one of the ‘internals’ vehicles we know about or another 5MW (we know about one there!).
No. 88. The 2nd GL Baker NGC in Van Ommeran livery still lacks solid evidence. We still only have the sighting.
No. 89. The Earls Court demo unit is only cited separately because we don’t know which operator it went to. I subsumed other demonstrators into the register under their operators’ names.
No. 90. The third CAMEL unit still remains only a possibility because the report in Motor Transport suggested that there were more than the two we have pictures of.
No. 91. Again, the prototype or pre-production unit we have plenty of pictures of, almost certainly went to an operator we already know about (probably Van Steenbergen).
No. 92. Roland Dussaillant of Voiron is reported to have had this one but we have no further evidence than a reasonably reliable witness (which is why I included it of course).
No. 93. Ditto Transport Roland of Garbez, 62 Bourbon.
That’s fourteen units! So potentially a lot of slack like I say! There may well be quite a few more out there yet before we reach the real 91 mark.
So keep rummaging chaps!
Number 77 & 78 will be 100% accurate as Alberto Pesanti is a huge historian of trucks. He has taken other pics and really
does know his stuff.
- Dussaillant confirmed to me that they 100% had one.
93.Garbez.The driver of that motor confirmed he drove it to me.
I have not looked for along time now and cant remember all the details but there were other French drivers that
confirmed others.
