I WAS TOLD BY A HINO DEALER OVER HERE IN IRELAND
THAT IN THE LATE 70s
ERF SOLD SOME HINOS HE WITH A ERF BADGE ON THEM
HE DOSE,NT KNOW IF THEY HAD ERF PARTS IN THEM
CAN ANYONE SHINE SOME LIGHT ON THIS FOR ME
CHEERS PAUL
These vehicles badged as ERF were I believe Hinos,and the only thing ERF about them was the badge.
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Don’t think that tipper is an ERF badged Hino but more than likely a STEYR (Austrian) cabbed ERF. IIRC the joint ERF/HINO job didn’t come to fruition hence the STEYR cabbed trucks came on stream as 4 & 6 wheelers mainly as tippers but a few flatbed vehicles, don’t think they went much bigger than that. I think it was a way for ERF to try and get a foothold into the lower GVW end of the market but the memory is hazy so I do stand to be corrected 
Regards
Dave Penn;
bugcos,
Can you offer any more info■■?
Just checked out this site erfhistoricvehicles.co.uk/history/ and my memory was correct 
ERF linked up with STEYR and used their cabs to save on development and production costs after the M series 4 wheeler didn’t really take off. I’m now sure that the original pitch had been to work with HINO to produce 12 - 15 tonners but as I’ve said it didn’t come to fruition because of a problem with exchange rates so they must have looked around for a new partner and as STEYR were just starting to market their tractor units in the UK getting in with ERF might have seemed a good opportunity to get greater product exposure in the lower weight ranges in the UK at 16ton & 26ton gross.
Regards
Dave Penn;
NO THE HINO I WAS TOLD WAS THE OLD TYPE THE HE336
BUT THANKS ANYWAY LADS
Hi paul mc, can’t say I ever saw one of those HINO’s badged as an ERF but I bet they would have been a good tool, always thought that that model of HINO looked impressive and bet it would have been the biz with a ■■■■■■■■ Fuller, Rockwell set up 
Regards
Dave Penn;
D H Jones in chirk near wrexham fitted a ■■■■■■■ 14 litre an fuller box to one of those hino,s think was in truck magazine late 80,s
THANKS LADS
DAVE I,LL GET A FEW MORE PHOTOS OF THEM UP IF YOU WANT
That would be great Paul, as I’ve said I always thought that model of HINO looked great and the pics you have already put up are brill, 
would love to see some more.
Thanks and Regards
Dave Penn;
PAUL YOU SHOULD PUT A COUPLE OF THE BENTLEY TRUCK PICS UP
HERES A COUPLE FROM A COMPANY MY DAD WORKED FOR.
As regards this Steyr cabbed ERF the ES model, they were nice wagons.
This EP model though based on a Turkish BMC cab, came out around the same time in the 90’s but wasn’t up to much.
ERF dealers did start selling the 7.5 tonner Mitsubishi or Hino trucks at one time didn’t they ? Perhaps that HE was something unique to the dealers in Ireland.
I heard what I first thought was a Foden 2 stroke recently, it turned out to be an 8 legger Hino with exhaust stacks, very nice !
So Guys what where they really like to drive & live in ■■ They were the motor you saw now and then on the mainland and I only got talking to the driver of one once in some place in Tyneside but he had just got the motor and was throwing lots of rubbish out of the cab, he wasn’t a very happy bunny at the time, 
so I didn’t think it was the right time to ask him about his truck. This was about 1981 and the motor was liveried up as Eaglefreight or Eagleway, basically white with an eagle kind of motif spreading out across the front of the motor Does that ring any bells for you lads in the Emerald Isle…
Anyway it would be great to see some pics of HINO’s and MITSUBISIHI’s and any other other stuff that we don’t see so often.
Thanks and Regards
Dave Penn;
my dad drove one for years 8 forward gears trailer brake and a nice bunk to have a sleep in.no problem pulling weight
that company crosbie had a rake load of the he hino and later the sh hino new model.
overall good but your f10 volvo/142 scanias were a much better truck but for what crosbies work entailed he had a few f10s and a couple of 142s ,the hino 's did him.he now runs mans doing alot of tanker work.
A company called Vicon were operating some of these out of Liverpool around 1980. The great late Pat Kennett tested one on a Newsnight type program, the story being could this be a new Jap onslaught against the UK truck manufacturers, as they had done with Motorbikes,Cars etc. Pat reckoned they were OK for middle distance work and TRUCK later reported they had been shipped back to the Vicon HQ in Eire.
DAVID CASSIN:
my dad drove one for years 8 forward gears trailer brake and a nice bunk to have a sleep in.no problem pulling weight
that company crosbie had a rake load of the he hino and later the sh hino new model.
overall good but your f10 volvo/142 scanias were a much better truck but for what crosbies work entailed he had a few f10s and a couple of 142s ,the hino 's did him.he now runs mans doing alot of tanker work.
Hinos were excellent vehicles for the work Henry A Crosbie did.
this truck dropped off a load of sand on a site i was working on a couple of years ago,the winscreen was full to the brim with crap,i dont no how the hell he could see out of it! 
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GAZ70:
this truck dropped off a load of sand on a site i was working on a couple of years ago,the winscreen was full to the brim with crap,i dont no how the hell he could see out of it!
This picture is from this page of the thread “old companies from stoke on trent” and was posted by bugcos.
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The truck is one of a pair that were owned by father and son team Jim and Anthony Goodwin from Alsager, Jim did like his “Bling”! I used to be in a VW Owners Caravan Club with Jim and his wife Nina and we had many happy times rallying together. Jim had several different trucks, Maggie Deutz was his favourite, and also owned Leyland’s. Not seen him for a few years now, but still exchange Christmas cards.
Pete.
Not really relevant but in Hong Kong Hinos make up about 90 percent of the trucks on the road. Years ago it was mainly British trucks but that is what some people call progress.
didn’t scania get into a deal with hino to build heavy weight tractor units for japan ? i’m sure i’ve seen a pictire of a 4series scania unit with a HINO badge on it .