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There were two LV cab options. The 7LV with the set back front axle and the 8LV with the forward-set front axle. These had nothing to do with accommodating engine sizes and were more about keeping the front of the cab within overall dimensions (plus operator preference).
Only the 7LV cab was used for the A-series, not the 8LV.
So Bewick was right, of course.
Incidentally, you could also have an A-series unit with a 5MW steel Motor Panels full sleeper cab.
Who to take notice of, a bloke who had brief inter course with the industry in an entry role, or the fellow who built a small transport empire, including specing and buying more trucks than the former definitely non-expert has ever driven. Give me a nanosecond to deliberate.
The result is in, it’s in alphabetical order, B precedes C.
incidentally, ERF also made forward and set-back versions of its MV cabs and its MW cabs as well as the LV cabs. In all cases, nothing to do with engine size.
Buzzer’s on a roll. Or in the groove.
That’s not an A-series.
All A-series units had the set-back front axle 7LV cab - without exception.
You have to remember that earlier ERF chassis (pre A-series) continued to be supplied to customers with either 7LV or 8LV cabs.
There was no such model as the LV. LV is the cab only. Earlier chassis all bore the old numbering system and there were many variations.
Oh dear poor Slartibartfast, his planet has gone into washing machine mode. And to think he has driven away several of the very people who could put him straight, but they got so fed up of being told he was right and they were wrong that they called it a day. Knowledgeable people who were there at the time, did the job and took notice, spent their hard earned on resurrecting almost forgotten machinery, or spoke to the actual people who were involved and even wrote books on their subject. They did all that only to be told they or their ideas were stupid. It wasn’t just the once, it was over and over again on unrelated threads.
I really don’t know why I’m doing this only for some argument to result rubbishing the idea that Guy knew what they were doing, and might have accepted an order, to fit the 8LXB into a number of chassis, from an established customer.
The evidence is not always on Wikipedia. A Cummins ERF has a code with a C and a Rolls an R
4ft 6in
CF is will be along in a minute to put everyone in their place.
The Cummins Vee Engine powered Guy Tractor unit dimensions
He’s ruined more threads than an whisper of moths.
In the spirit of transparency I admit that I had to look up that collective noun.
I remember a very long thread that went on and on for weeks with a clash in between Luke Vern aka Switchlogic about a foreign company.
By the way,where has Luke gone to?
Should be an interesting weekend when CF joins in the chat, luckily I have stocked up on some fine popping corn.
Will this be a ticketed event or not?
It’s not Jimmy Savile in a wig.
That’s up there with a charm of goldfinches.
Flamboyance of flamingoes…
A boast of posts…? 
