Detroit.
Standard Vanguard, my first car, cost £5. loved it so when it packed up bought another for another fiver. Loved that too but when it became illegal I built a scaffold cage inside it, interior battery and fuel tank, knocked all the glass out, and raced it at Long Eaton. Was paid to go to the opening of a new track at Doncaster, which is where it died, engine cheese wired by steel fence hawsers. Travelled home, still in convoy, with Tony Moulding who had trailored it up there with his mark 10 jag. 
It’s like girls walking down the street isn’t it? Don’t think much of yours!
I know which I’d drive out of these three!
Yes, the ERF C-series every time, just as long as it had the Cummins-Fuller-Rockwell driveline and not he Gardner-Spicer-Rockwell one!
Strato for me 350 Cummins 14 spd Fuller…better ride than ERF.
Scania model was ok but not a lot of room in cab.
I’d go with you on the Strato if their gearbox installation wasn’t so awful. The one I drove had a twin-splitter that was the worst installation of one I’d come across.
Used to actually hate the twin splitter, I mastered it …just didn’t like it.
Strato had a more modern cab than the ERF, as a tramper I’ve always prioritised on quality of cab to live in, and with me being 6’ 1’’ the bigger the cab the better.
Scania, i had a few the last being a 380 Topliner
I didn’t find them very comfortable to drive.
I’d been driving some crap before that Les , Iveco 190-30s Renault G290 a 13 tonner Steyr to name a few the Scania was a Rolls Royce in comparison
Don’t laugh at that last one, I did that with my 6 wheel AEC while building the M1 for Mr. Wimpy.
Forgot to pull the tailgate lever as it went up. While I hammered away at the locking jaws, the banksman, who had never seen the underside of a lorry before, wandered underneath for a closer look. Luckily for him, and my freedom, he stepped back just as it bounced back down.
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Had one or two on their side before, ended up with twisted chassis, another time the locking not on the top of the ram broke away, body up at 90 degrees and fully extended ram along the chassis. 
Not laughing 
, honest. Never did that on the road but, one day… It’s a winter day in 1973 on a hill farm in Cornwall. There’s a Fordson Major with a bucket-thing on the back, my mate Andy (it’s his father’s farm) dispensing straw and supplements to the dairy herd. I (almost 14) am at the helm, tractor in low range facing uphill. Andy says “go”, I pull the hand accelerator and… well that clutch was fearsome, fearsome I tell you. Dumped the lot out the back of the bucket, steering wheels pawing at the air for grip.
First picture with BRS and Sunters Scammell taken on Yarm high street, hasn’t changed much to this day apart from you would never get space to park a wagon there now always chocker with cars!
Some might be pleased to see wagons they once drove or knew of here, Truckfest 1995 (one of three on Dave Specer’s channel)
You might be less than pleased to see one of them here (Rush Green boneyard, Hitchin. Several videos)
Spot the gearbox/ diff/ back axle in that pile