Anyone got any pictures or info on Jennings?
Just bought a roadtrain cab with one on and was going to try unpickling it and refitting it to a better cab. Be handy if anybody has some fitting instructions!
Mike
Hi
Have not had any thing to do with roadtrains but have built a few on the ERF ‘B’ series , the complete roof back and sides were in one peice and very easy to fit as the roof section was designed to fit over the original roof of the day cab,all the internal bits were bolt in with no welding, I dont know if the roadtrain is the same or if it is just a pod fitted on the rear of the cab same as the ERF ‘A’ series
mikeyb:
Anyone got any pictures or info on Jennings?Just bought a roadtrain cab with one on and was going to try unpickling it and refitting it to a better cab. Be handy if anybody has some fitting instructions!
Mike
transporter man:
Hi
Have not had any thing to do with roadtrains but have built a few on the ERF ‘B’ series , the complete roof back and sides were in one peice and very easy to fit as the roof section was designed to fit over the original roof of the day cab,all the internal bits were bolt in with no welding, I dont know if the roadtrain is the same or if it is just a pod fitted on the rear of the cab same as the ERF ‘A’ seriesmikeyb:
Anyone got any pictures or info on Jennings?Just bought a roadtrain cab with one on and was going to try unpickling it and refitting it to a better cab. Be handy if anybody has some fitting instructions!
Mike
I did a B Series. Not a complicated job and the result was good. Ours was off a scrapped unit and we were lucky that all the bits & pieces came with it (even the beading for the doors and a two-post illuminated roof sign). The things kids get up to when they’ve finished college…
jennings are still trading in crewe,i think they only do seats but you could ring them.
Jennings CVS?
Bought seats from them last year, didn’t thing then were anything to do with Jennings conversions tho. Might give em a ring.
jennings seating,think its crewe gates ind est.no. 01270257417.
BIGGEE:
jennings are still trading in crewe,i think they only do seats but you could ring them.
Hiya I served my apprenticeship at Jennings/ERF. ERF purchesed Jennings in IICR 1967. Jennings was not allowed to trade for a period and did infact
start tradeing from Crewe.The main man you need to Contact is Stuart Bebington he’s the top man.The last time i was talking to him he was building
Ash frame cabs to order(he built the maudsley cab for swains)He had a unit on the old Withers of winsford scrap yard site IICR its smokehall rd winsford
Stuart only ever worked at Jennings as a body builder/ repair shop man what he dos’nt know about ERF cabs is’nt worth knowing.Sorry i don’t have a
contact number.Another man you could try is Geoff Cooke(horse boxes nr Crewe) he is another old school Jennings man who is still tradeing.
John
3300John:
BIGGEE:
jennings are still trading in crewe,i think they only do seats but you could ring them.Hiya I served my apprenticeship at Jennings/ERF. ERF purchesed Jennings in IICR 1967. Jennings was not allowed to trade for a period and did infact
start tradeing from Crewe.The main man you need to Contact is Stuart Bebington he’s the top man.The last time i was talking to him he was building
Ash frame cabs to order(he built the maudsley cab for swains)He had a unit on the old Withers of winsford scrap yard site IICR its smokehall rd winsford
Stuart only ever worked at Jennings as a body builder/ repair shop man what he dos’nt know about ERF cabs is’nt worth knowing.Sorry i don’t have a
contact number.Another man you could try is Geoff Cooke(horse boxes nr Crewe) he is another old school Jennings man who is still tradeing.
John
Jennings were indeed a cracking coachbuilder I remember sending two new Atki Borderers to them in late '75 for sleeper conversions ( we were still trying to be loyal to British truck builders) The conversions were well built but not really the ansewer but we did try !!! Bewick.
this is a Jennings sleeper on a Bison sitting in Cypres
And this is a Jennings cab
Someone said Jennings never gave a Quote if you could’nt aford it go somewhere else.
John.
Incase anyone might be interested.
We have removed the conversion from the old cab (high datum) and it is now sitting on my cab (low datum).
Just the riveting and glueing and bolting left to do.
3 days work so far, the best bit was cutting the back out the old cab then hammering the edges round.
It really does make the truck look so much better, finishes it off really well!
Managed to find some original shots of Jennings bodied trucks, thought they might be of intrest
A few more from the Jennings archive, seems they built quite a varied range of bodies, mainly horseboxes, but coaches, removals vans, fire engines and some specialist promotional bodies
Jennings on ERF LV
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Eeee - those pictures bring back memories…
We got our donor Jennings pod from a firm in Byley Cross in Cheshire - I think they were in the Firmin yard. Anyhow, we had to borrow the milkman’s Merc 308 pickup to collect it and on the way we stopped at the local dairy (who had their own cows) and cadged some straw bales to keep the sleeper straight on the way home. I sat in the passenger seat with a bucket full of bits between my feet and all the glass on my lap - all the way home. That was the hardest part of the whole job really - making sure it got back to the yard without smashing it to bits.
The fun part of getting it on the wagon was cutting the back panel out of the day cab. The B-Series had two box section supports either side of the big rear window and it was while I was grinding the bottom ‘stump’ of one of them that I had a very lucky escape with the angle grinder. The stone came off and shot across the yard like a missile, going straight through the glasshouses on the other side, breaking glass as it went!! Luckily, there was nobody in the glasshouses picking tomatoes otherwise there could’ve been trouble…
It made a very well looked-after day-cab wagon into a passable trampers wagon (for the period). Sadly, it’s second driver abused it and after a new crank was needed in the engine (God alone knows what he did to break it) it got sold to ■■■■ Pennington in Ashton-in-Makerfield.
Another thing I remember doing on that wagon (before the sleeper conversion) was fixing the wobbly drivers seat. The bloke who’d driven it from new was a large chap and when I first got in it I couldn’t help but notice that the seat (a Chapman Bremshey if memory serves) was wobbling in different directions at the same time. We eventually found that the white plastic bushes in the seat base were all split (some missing), so that was another half a day on the bench taking the seat to pieces to refit new bushes. My opinion at the time was to buy a replacement seat, but it was apparently cheaper to set me onto the job with a bag of plastic bits, a screwdriver and a lump hammer…