Yes but you have to remember that the Ergos were the bees’ knees to us old Atki handlers when they first came out.
I was loading at Velindre one time and the bloke next to me had one. We had plenty of time to chat waiting for the 10 second load of tinplate bulks and he told me all about it. What he thought were ashtrays in the door turned out to be the open/shut strips of the demisters. He wondered why when he tried to clear the screen, he couldn’t see a thing for ash in the air.
Ramone yes I did but when you are 23 and keen you had a go at the job, no sleeper as such just a board over the engine lump on to the door window ledges, soon learnt to lock both doors or rope them together and that for £35 a week all in plus a fiddle or two, thought it was great back then but soon came to me senses, Buzzer
Somewhere up-thread was a mention of the high-spec Ergo-cabbed Leyland/ AEC. I stumbled across another one..
Apparently, Raketa (the Bulgarian state transport authority) ran a few of these. I daresay one or more of the elders on here might have encountered them.
Dennison built the first batch of 75 units with the Motor Panels cab used by Foden, but decided to import the Sisu cab-shells, made by Sisu themselves.
@les_sylphides will doubtless have seen this before, but here we are at the 1964 Earls Court motor show with an ERF LV with half the cab made of perspex:
Yes, in 1964 cut-away diagrams, drawings and models were very popular, largely because they were so educational. The more serious ‘comics’ or the era, like Look & Learn, Eagle-Swift etc were rife with cut-away cross-channel ferries, aircraft, buses and steam engines. I think that LV would look nice in my living room .