Spardo:
Right, so where is he now? When did he leave the business? I guess he’d be 50ish when I met him, so perhaps 70ish now. If you’re out there reading this Peter, come on down and lets be hearing from you. I’d love to hear your take on modern developements.
Salut, David.
Peters no longer listed on the official site (neither are Rolls, Gardner or Perkins options sob) BUT he is the Honorary President of REVS the ERF historical society erfhistoricvehicles.co.uk/com.htm
Expect he could’nt say much on camera tho, one because he probably signed something when he left and secondly because he wouldnt want to damage the reputation of ERF (not that theres much negative to say - they are the last of the Brits to fall to Johnny Foreigner after all)
I was led to believe that if you used Easy Start, the engines became addicted to it because it washed all the carbon from the bores and rings. then the engine would lose compression, and then needed easy start to make it go
It also created too much of a bang (Detonation) and damaged the crowns of the pistons.
I remember the bloke who got killed in the truck, the one near driffield hitting the pub. He used to start a Fordson Major Tractor with a rope wound around the belt pulley on the side. No decompessor, just brute force
