I’ll put this up,les,so you can carry on posting 
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Thanks Beaunydel! I’ve dug a little deeper. The jury appears to be still out on the Bahrain C-series being a CP, as the CP range only offerd the 10 litre LTA 290 and not the 14 litre NTE 290 (which this one is). The 14 litre engine was only offered as the NTE 320 and 350 in ERF CPs.
[As an aside, I was interested to read that the NZ export C-series RHD 6x4s could have the NTE 370].
I’ll keep digging! 
Deanb found this for me:
He points out that the LHD one has C57 on the door (which is what the RHD 6x4s were badged, btw). I think this was because early C-series export 6x4s were based on the previous B-series C57s. Later C-series were badged C60, of course.
EDIT to add that the C57 above may have been a prototype or pre-production model as the early exports were badged C60 including the one shown at NEC motor show in '83.
By coincidence, I also took delivery today of Commercial Motor’s ERF 50th anniversary issue, dated 10/09/83. It mentions that the 220 ERF 6x4 units sent to Taseco in Saudi, had day cabs and NTE 290s with Fullers and Rockwell rear ends. We know that this was the standard set-up for UK RHD C40s and C57s and that they had Rockwell / Hendrickson rear ends. We know that early LHD sleeper-cabbed 6x4s like the one above had NTE 350s with Fuller RTX14609s and Kirkstall / Hendrickson rear ends. I suspect later ones were Rockwell / Hendrickson.
Here’s the page:
Here’s a pic of one of Taseco’s C-series 6x4s.
And here’s a blow-up of the C57
Happy days!
Hiya adr. If you’re still posting, can you remember which publication you found these pictures in? Cheers.
EDIT to add: if anyone else recognises these pics, perhaps they could identify the magazine or brochure whence they came! 
I can now answer the question (posed above ^^) myself: they’re from the April 1983 issue of TRUCK magazine.
EDIT TO ADD:
Quite my favourite truck this. Ticks more boxes than any other! I continue to make slow progress, discovering details about the mighty ERF C60 - bit by bit.
The C60 model is probably best described as a ‘specialist variant’. It was a model ‘variant’ rather than a one-off because a number of them was produced. It was ‘specialist’ in that it was LHD, it was heavy-duty and it was spec’d for Middle-East specifically as a Saudi Arabi export model.
Privately, I’m intrigued by its potential as an overlander on UK-Gulf TIR tilt work.
Trawling through old transport mags and ERF brochures I have found out a bit more.
The C60 appears to have been blessed with the newer ‘Brown trim’ interior, which replaced the ‘Blue trim’ interior. This coincided with the double bunk, which the C60 has.
One thing that I have still to ascertain, is what rear ends the ten C60s exported to Al-Buainain had. The ERF demo appears to have had the Kirkstall / Hendrickson set-up, but I do wonder if the batch of ten might have had the Rockwell / Hendrickson combi in keeping with the 230 290-powered 6x4s exported to Saudi just beforehand.
Stumbling recently upon a cracking article in the April 1983 issue of TRUCK, I found some additional info that I didn’t know about. We already know about the sump guard, air-con, visor, stone-guards, double-bumper etc from brochures and reports I posted earlier on this thread. New facts are as follows:
It had a larger air-cleaner than standard, a higher-capacity cooling system than standard, a larger diameter fan and an electric passenger window.
The article also emphasises that the SP3 cab retained its full European level of comfort and trim; and that the Fuller RTX 14609 was an excellent, slick installation.
Also, the tester tried to get the double-drive unit to misbehave on a wet surface under heavy braking, but couldn’t. Impressive stuff!
SECOND EDIT:
I can’t find any decent interior shots of the LHD C-series sleeper cab. I know Alan Rickett took the publicity photos of the C60 so there must be some somewhere. The only ones I have are poor ones I took myself of the 4x2 unit shown at Gaydon a few years back.
If anyone has access to any, I’d be grateful if you’d post them or let me know where I can access them. Cheers! Ro
THIRD EDIT (sod this ridiculous three-posts system 
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Big breakthrough on the ERF C60 front chaps 
. I know you’re all rivetted 
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I’ve done more delving and contacted our dear old compatriot in TN, Cookie, who has looked at the hubs of the C-series 6x4s shown here. It transpires that my hunch was correct after all: the C57 pre-production example shown in the 1982 ERF publicity material had a Kirkstall / Hendrickson rear end. However, the production models, as exemplified by the ten C60s exported to Saudi Arabia (Al-Buainain) had the Rockwell / Hendrickson set-up shared with all the other 6x4 M/E export models.
This firmly places the illustrious C60 in the “holy trinity” Cummins / Fuller / Rockwell category.
Result! 
FOURTH EDIT
ERF’s answer to ‘The Scud’ then (ie Bob poggianni’s Scammell S26 subbying for Astran)! Same vintage and almost the same driveline!
As an aside, I suspect that the C57-badged demonstrator from the brochure and the C60-badged unit exhibited at the NEC show are the same unit.