Didn’t the AEs, Magnums, come in about the same time as the Premiums though, a much better prospect.
I think but not 100% the Magnum was much earlier and a bit heavier than those awful Premiums
A Rolls Royce 220 doing continental work in those days. Poor driver would have been too embarrassed to pull into any truck stops. Must have been hauling crisps out and croissants back. 
I’m surprised to see a RR220 in a SedAtk, especially a sleeper I thought that engine disappeared with the 32/4 unit ! They still used the 180LXB but I never saw a RR220. Must be the sheltered life I led Doh !
We had a “W” plate SA with a RR 220 that was on contract hire to Initial Services. Wouldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding. For some bizarre reason it was retained on the general fleet at the end of the contract instead of being sold. It was only ever used as a yard shunter despite being fully taxed. 5 years old and reduced to that.
Really? Perhaps the driver was on a good wedge and not on trip money
I never had any experience with Rolls engines in the ERFs and SedAtks I had.
The lad who used to do my maintenace used to tell me rightly or wrongly they were ‘soft’ compared to a Cummins,.so I kept away.
I had a 400 day cab with a 180 Gardner in it, and a 401 sleeper with an 8 cylinder Gardner the rest were Cummins.
So as for Rolls I can’t really comment.
The 8 cyl Gardner came to an abrupt halt one day on the A66, can’t recall what it was but I ended up selling the engine to Walsh & Dearden for export, they gave me a hell of a price for it which surprised me,.and we put a 290E in the Sed Atk.
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An NA 220 Roller in a 1980 reg artic doing continental work says it all about cheapskate Brit operators in the day.
Meanwhile I was driving 24t 6 wheeler, DOT/council motorway Foden gritters with turbocharged 265:Rolls and 12 speed Foden box.
Bewick and my Ozzy enemy will say it never happened I’m making it up.
That preemptive remark seems to have been made by a guilty conscience. 
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Direct Transport from Gobowen had an ERF C36, an 83 A with a 220 Rolls, and he did run it at 36 tonnes, it had an admittedly little used Jennings sleeper rather than a factory sleeper. When it was actually built is open to question, the late Denis Charles who owned Direct did have a habit of buying new vehicles and then standing them unused for extended periods. But it plodded from BSC Shotton down to South Wales, then reload out of the Abbey or Trostre usually to Lancs, so it was hardly easy work, via Gobowen in both directions.
Parked up before shipment to Africa perhaps?
The description says this is an LV 6x4, I’ll leave it Ro to confirm/ deny etc.
Recabbed LV perhaps.
It can’t be an LV, parkroyal2100, because LV is a cab not a chassis model. This is a South African built ERF 66cu335 with a Cummins NHE 335 engine, Fuller RT 14615 (ie 15-sp) 6x4 unit with Kirkstall D65 back end and locally built Santini cab.
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2 RTs and a Plaxton(?) something or other.
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Ta, I knew you’d know.
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When was the 14 series first available? I woud have thought a 9 or 12 series big enough for a 335 and more in line with availability. The 14 series superseded the 12.
Just the pedant leaking out of me. 
At Courtaulds/Toray I knew that one of the 2 artics I inherited was coming up for replacement and I booked a weeks trial with a Magnum which I was looking forward to because, being cab happy, I knew I would get to try it out. My boss, who was one step down from the directors, always knew what I was up to if I couldn’t be found anywhere on site .
It was booked from the dealer, R&H Freight but they were better at operating than selling trucks and forgot to send it. I even had a hired trailer waiting to couple it to. So it never happened and some time later I was offered a trial at a testing ground down south but for a Premium, which they were flogging hard at the time, being, as you say, lighter.
It was a memorable day, being feted with tea and sandwiches and a drive round the test track which was a bit like the old Brooklands race track with banked corners. Alarmingly all sorts of other vehicles shared the space including some very fast cars and it required a steady neuve plodding round with these missiles flashing past.
The best part was when we came off the track and inside the circle where they had a rough course laid out with muddy ground and steep hilly bits on which it performed ok.
But I didn’t buy one and ended up with a couple of Fodens and 2 FH Volvos. Well satisfied with both. 
Don’t know off hand sdu. I did notice it was an NHE 335 rather than an NTC 335 so it might have had something to do with what South Africa could get hold of. In any case, SA and NZ both tended to put bigger engines in their ERFs than UK (witness the NTE 370 in C-series, which we never had here).
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