Thanks to pyewacket947v, Buzzer, Spardo and Suedehead for the pics. 
Oily.
This is some machine that Buzzer has posted, with a bit of yesteryear bling, go anywhere take anything…What is it 
oiltreader:
Thanks to pyewacket947v, Buzzer, Spardo and Suedehead for the pics.
Oily.This is some machine that Buzzer has posted, with a bit of yesteryear bling, go anywhere take anything…What is it
Wartime Ford? GM? Whatever it is I think somebody has done a good job with the cab-I doubt that is original. But they still need to do something about those tyres! There must have been loads flogged off by the army after the war, no?
oiltreader:
Thanks to pyewacket947v, Buzzer, Spardo and Suedehead for the pics.
Oily.This is some machine that Buzzer has posted, with a bit of yesteryear bling, go anywhere take anything…What is it
Dont know but VALKYRIE is normally good at knowing obscure motor’s. But he has not been on since April 23rd ,hope he is ok.
Dipster:
oiltreader:
Thanks to pyewacket947v, Buzzer, Spardo and Suedehead for the pics.
Oily.This is some machine that Buzzer has posted, with a bit of yesteryear bling, go anywhere take anything…What is it
Wartime Ford? GM? Whatever it is I think somebody has done a good job with the cab-I doubt that is original. But they still need to do something about those tyres! There must have been loads flogged off by the army after the war, no?
Had a Google Dipster and Dean and it was originally a Ford or GM CMP(Canadian Military Pattern) truck. The V8 sounds pretty good in the video
arcar.org/video-video-video-xrzyo4nihjs
and the history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_ … tern_truck
Oily
Hi Oily, yes I have photograhed it at various rallies plus the owner is a pal of Mike Bonner who I sold my ERF to a few years ago,both are on thee Scottish
rally scene.
Cheers, Leyland 600.
A DAF of Bidfood delivering Pub Grub to Wetherspoons " The Moon Under Water " in Market Place, Wigan. July 6th 2021.
A Scania of Pontrilas Sawmills from Herefordshire delivering to a timber merchant at Cricket Street
Business Park near to Wigan town centre earlier today July 7th 2021. The driver told me that his
gross weight with this load was 43980kg. Ray Smyth.
A Ford minibus on a school trip from Wigan Grammar School in the early 1960s in Yugoslavia.
I read that someone filled it up with diesel instead of petrol whilst there and it struggled to
complete the long journey back to the United Kingdom. Picture from Wigan World Forum.
Ray Smyth.
Ray Smyth:
A Ford minibus on a school trip from Wigan Grammar School in the early 1960s in Yugoslavia.
I read that someone filled it up with diesel instead of petrol whilst there and it struggled to
complete the long journey back to the United Kingdom. Picture from Wigan World Forum.Ray Smyth.
Looks like Xanadu castle in the background or maybe Count Draculas abode ! 
Cheers Dennis.
ERF-NGC-European:
pv83:
Were these fitted with the big Gardner 8 potter?It’s quite likely that they were indeed powered by the 150 bhp Gardner 8LW, pv83, as Wobbe Reitsma’s book on Foden exports states that those were thus powered in the '50s.
I’ve actually got that book, a real treat for anoraks I must say
Ray Smyth:
I read that someone filled it up with diesel instead of petrol whilst there and it struggled to
complete the long journey back to the United Kingdom.
Ray Smyth.
I did the opposite in the same era by filling my 1939 Packard 8 powered by a Perkins P6 with petrol at the start of a journey from Nottingham to Spain. I realised my error immediately I had finished and solved the problem by topping up with diesel every 20 miles or so all the way to Dover and beyond. 
i was only saved from further such tactics by the diff seizing up near Troyes so I left it to the tender mercies of the AA to bring home while my mate and I returned by train. 
Spardo:
Ray Smyth:
I read that someone filled it up with diesel instead of petrol whilst there and it struggled to
complete the long journey back to the United Kingdom.
Ray Smyth.I did the opposite in the same era by filling my 1939 Packard 8 powered by a Perkins P6 with petrol at the start of a journey from Nottingham to Spain. I realised my error immediately I had finished and solved the problem by topping up with diesel every 20 miles or so all the way to Dover and beyond.
i was only saved from further such tactics by the diff seizing up near Troyes so I left it to the tender mercies of the AA to bring home while my mate and I returned by train.
I too have topped up with petrol in to my diesel Land Rover. A stupid brain fade moment fairly easily done on a multi-fuel pump stand in modern stations. But has anybody actually managed to top up a diesel truck with petrol? If so how did that happen?
Dipster:
Spardo:
Ray Smyth:
I read that someone filled it up with diesel instead of petrol whilst there and it struggled to
complete the long journey back to the United Kingdom.
Ray Smyth.I did the opposite in the same era by filling my 1939 Packard 8 powered by a Perkins P6 with petrol at the start of a journey from Nottingham to Spain. I realised my error immediately I had finished and solved the problem by topping up with diesel every 20 miles or so all the way to Dover and beyond.
i was only saved from further such tactics by the diff seizing up near Troyes so I left it to the tender mercies of the AA to bring home while my mate and I returned by train.
I too have topped up with petrol in to my diesel Land Rover. A stupid brain fade moment fairly easily done on a multi-fuel pump stand in modern stations. But has anybody actually managed to top up a diesel truck with petrol? If so how did that happen?
I would think seizure before long?
Buzzer:
Thursday’s therapy, Buzzer
Are Harrison’s still there at Rotherham? Always drove past the yard slowly on my way to SPT to see what classics were in. Especially as I have a soft spot for Highwaymen since my, hectic, time at Ilkeston Haulage. Or rather it would have been hectic had it not been for the Scammell. Not much hectic about 39 mph.
Pictured this old girl at M&D’s fun park near Motherwell today. Not sure of the chassis but it does have a Leyland engine.
Spardo:
Buzzer:
Thursday’s therapy, BuzzerAre Harrison’s still there at Rotherham? Always drove past the yard slowly on my way to SPT to see what classics were in. Especially as I have a soft spot for Highwaymen since my, hectic, time at Ilkeston Haulage. Or rather it would have been hectic had it not been for the Scammell. Not much hectic about 39 mph.
The yard is still there, however last year it was set alight in an arson attack and several of the ERF units were destroyed. My pal who I do vintage rallies with drove for Ilkeston Haulage as well.
NMP
Pete.
windrush:
Spardo:
Buzzer:
Thursday’s therapy, BuzzerAre Harrison’s still there at Rotherham? Always drove past the yard slowly on my way to SPT to see what classics were in. Especially as I have a soft spot for Highwaymen since my, hectic, time at Ilkeston Haulage. Or rather it would have been hectic had it not been for the Scammell. Not much hectic about 39 mph.
The yard is still there, however last year it was set alight in an arson attack and several of the ERF units were destroyed. My pal who I do vintage rallies with drove for Ilkeston Haulage as well.
0 NMP
Pete.
Shame that, were the various Scammells still there? I know they were a bit of a passion with Harrisons. I remember Highwaymen, with extra axles added, up and down the motorways, quite a long time after they were a current vehicle.
My time at Ilkeston would have been in the 60s, the fleet was all Highwayman and Mandators although I think around that time he had a couple of Internationals on trial. I seem to remember that the brakes weren’t good, perhaps they got away with keeping to the old Yankee habit of no front brakes, but at least one ran out of road at the canal bank at the bottom of the hill.