dozer:
I think you deserve a poke in the eye when I come back in feb hammer !!!
Dunno where I acquired this picture from, but it was in with a pile of other Maurice Hill pictures - all SKs:
dozer:
Ive just borrowed these 3 pictures!!ladies and gentlemen I give you in all their glory a 1644, a 1635 and the g-cab interior.
My god these bring back memories of going with my Dad when i was a kid. It looked just like these pics. He worked for Hodgsons of Batley on the Nisa Today contract, I can even remember the number plate E265 ADO.
Taken at Truckfest 19■■
going by the regs i will guess 1988 thats when es were new i think■■?
kindle530:
Kenny Rayment. Now he was a character! Always bought Mercs, and usually the most powerful available at the time. Dont know if he’s still about, although I did see one of his trucks recently (I assume it was his). Heard he’d had a heart attack a few years back. When I decided to set up as an O/D back in the 80’s,I tried to buy one of his old SK’s from Fengate Commercials, but word got back to my then employers, and resulted in me getting suspended (with pay). Never touched a Merc since!
some cracking pictures there! when i worked for n c cammacks they had 2 of them, a eurocab and just a 6 wheeler v8 local motor on about a h plate i think, they just kept soldering on and they went to auction 1 or 2 years ago, and the h reg which was very knackered indeed (gearbox display didnt work rusty mega miles) still fetched about 8 grand!! most of them go to africa where im told the gearboxes are removed an replaced with zf itms (normally) as they are more mechanical and less electrical, and they solder on! i will see if i have any pictures of them
also l e tuckwells who are round the corner from me sold their yard shunter which i believe was a v8 for over a grand, and it didnt have a floor left!!
was that the red LHD euro cab one Mat ?
i remember meeting him on my side of the road top of baythorne end 
one monday morning
got a mag with a better picture of them i will dig it out and post it 
did i hear somewhere that the guy who owns atchison topeka previously owned santa fe ■■? hasn’t he got a fetish for american railways or something ■■
vernonbish777:
did i hear somewhere that the guy who owns atchison topeka previously owned santa fe ■■? hasn’t he got a fetish for american railways or something ■■
I’ve heard that too vernonbish. IIRC, I read something to that effect in one of the trucking mags when they did an article on Acheson Topeka.
IIRC, It said in there that he has a thing for US railways.
TBF, he runs a clean and tidy fleet.
I use to Live in a L-reg 2544ls Merc for 5months with my dad
Dave Jenkins:
was that the red LHD euro cab one Mat ?
i remember meeting him on my side of the road top of baythorne end
it was mate!! i have some pictures of it but they are being stored at my brothers cos i dont have a house now, when i was there it had a few drivers, ali had it the longest, but he did like his speeding…
dreva:
going by the regs i will guess 1988 thats when es were new i think■■?
Hi dreva, The first EPS I saw was a ‘demo’ 1635 on a “D” plate.
Our boss took the demo the minute it came out, because he was looking to replace the fleet at that time.
I remember being sent to Puttock’s of Guildford (Merc dealer) to learn the EPS gearbox.
Does anybody remember the cassette that told you how to use the EPS gearbox.■■ 
The one with “Ain’t seen nothing yet”, as the soundtrack?!
acd1202:
The one with “Ain’t seen nothing yet”, as the soundtrack?!
Yep, that’s the one 
It was supposed to be a driver explaining the EPS box to his pal in a cafe. Rather naff IIRC.
dreva:
going by the regs i will guess 1988 thats when es were new i think■■?
Hi dreva, I found a pic of the first EPS.
This is a demo from Puttocks of Guildford and I took the pic at a groupage place on River Road, Barking.
Defo on a “D” as you can see:
I dont want to step on any toes but my dad drove a b-reg 1633 which was fitted with a EPS I dont know if it was bought in the UK as the owner was a Dutchman and all his motors were dutch spec.
Is this possible?
K.Adams:
I dont want to step on any toes but my dad drove a b-reg 1633 which was fitted with a EPS I dont know if it was bought in the UK as the owner was a Dutchman and all his motors were dutch spec.Is this possible?
I’d say that’s fairly unlikely, because the 1633s I drove all had the ZF 16-speed manual gearbox.
I guess it’s possible that time plays tricks with our memory, but the firm I was on at the time was all Merc, and I’m certain that the EPS came out in the UK on a ‘D’ plate like on my pic above. I did many trips in various “Y,” “B,” “C” and “D” reg 1633s and they all had the 16-speed manual gearbox.
Also from my pic, you can see that the truck had EPS and that it was a 1635.
Maybe your dad’s memory has changed a “B” for a “D”■■
Maybe the Dutchman had made an EPS fit a manual gearbox had failed, or maybe he’d got hold of an early prototype??
I tend to agree with dieseldave, the firm i used to work for had one of the last 33s on a C plate, and one of the first 35s on a D plate. I suppose someone may have fitted an EPS box in a 33.