Limey:
Oh fgs
Ah, welcome 
I thought youâd never show up!! 
DEANB:
Out of intrest is the sleeper one a factory built one or did companies use someone like Jennings to do
a conversion â â0
No, the factory didnât build sleepers at all. This conversion was done by Colin Barrett, complete with a wheelbase extension.
David Miller:
I remember the first one I ever saw. It was truly a stunning looking vehicle in its day.But the nearside mirror on the first photo in this thread was placed in an odd position. Or was I wrong all these years?
David
That was the just the first one - the rest had proper mirrors, quite big by the standards of the day, on substantial mirror arms
240 Gardner:
Limey:
Oh fgsAh, welcome
I thought youâd never show up!!
Iâm always up for a bit of comedy, you know that! 
Limey:
240 Gardner:
Limey:
Oh fgsAh, welcome
I thought youâd never show up!!
Iâm always up for a bit of comedy, you know that!
Iâve known that for years with your Foden obsession
240 Gardner:
DEANB:
Out of intrest is the sleeper one a factory built one or did companies use someone like Jennings to do
a conversion â âNo, the factory didnât build sleepers at all. This conversion was done by Colin Barrett, complete with a wheelbase extension.
Thanks Chris for confirming that.
Were they only built as artic units ? Was this one factory built or stretched Chris â â
Hi 240
A few of these ended up on the fiargrounds - Willie Wilson had EMD 515 J
I note that â â â â â â â â RR and Gardner engines were used. What were the pairings, if any, of engine / gearbox on the View-lines (eg. Gardner / David Brown; â â â â â â â / Fuller)? Robert
My agent in Jeddah sent his son over to the UK around 1976 with a big wodge of cash to buy Units, trailers, dustcarts & heavy haulage kit.
I took him down to Joe Sullivans in Havant where amongst the kit he bought there was a 4x2 ex Pickfords ballast box Viewline
I donât remember the engine, I think it was a â â â â â â â but could have been RR, but I do remember it had an Allinson pre-select gearbox.
It wasnât too bad a drive for a British built motor and the first & only time I ever played at reversing a trailer on a bar, what fun
I donât think it lasted long in Jeddah as I never saw it in their yard whenever I visited
whisperingsmith:
My agent in Jeddah sent his son over to the UK around 1976 with a big wodge of cash to buy Units, trailers, dustcarts & heavy haulage kit.I took him down to Joe Sullivans in Havant where amongst the kit he bought there was a 4x2 ex Pickfords ballast box Viewline
I donât remember the engine, I think it was a â â â â â â â but could have been RR, but I do remember it had an Allinson pre-select gearbox.It wasnât too bad a drive for a British built motor and the first & only time I ever played at reversing a trailer on a bar, what fun
I donât think it lasted long in Jeddah as I never saw it in their yard whenever I visited
Anyone who was anyone in Jeddah (Trans Arabia, C.A.M.E.L and Falcon Freight for instance) ran ERF NGC âEuropeansâ! Iâll get my coatâŚRobert
I did try to persuade him to buy ERFâs 
Their main fleet at the time was standard Arab issue bonneted 1924 Mercs & the drivers mainly Sudanese
They also had some specialised 6x6 desert tractors for out of the way places
Hi just been chatting to my brother Paul we cadwallader bros rodington had a viewline H reg it was a twin steer canât remember what engine was in it tho must been good year as new akinson borderer with a rolls a foden and my dadâs scania 110
Cheers ian
From scrapbook thread.
caddy1:
Hi just been chatting to my brother Paul we cadwallader bros rodington had a viewline H reg it was a twin steer canât remember what engine was in it tho must been good year as new akinson borderer with a rolls a foden and my dadâs scania 110
Cheers ian
A 6x2 View-Line was a rare beast indeed! Only three occur to me off the top of my head - I donât suppose you have any photos, or even the reg?
ERF-NGC-European:
From scrapbook thread.0
despite the press release, I donât believe these were on a 9â6" wheelbase! That was the standard wheelbase for the Mk.1/Mk.2 cabbed tractors, but the front axle was further forward on the View-Line, thus the comments about the outer axle spread and trailer compatibility. Mine was 9â11.5"
Willie Roadstar:
A couple that ended up,with Jonesâs Funfairs from Dudley
AMH 534H actually started life as a 4x2 ballast tractor with Pickfordâs - you can see the join in the ballast box
DIG:
Lots of similarity in the Australian model to the View line except maybe not as much View due to our warmer climate I would say,but the tropical roof worked well and were a comfortable truck to operate and the sleeper models were roomy.Dig
Despite the comments at the time of the View-Line launch in 1966, and its suitability for overseas territories because of its âfreedom of front axle locationâ, it wouldnât have lasted 5 minutes out there! Comfortable though I found it, it was scarcely the most rigid structure! The RP cab was much stronger and suited to the territory
whisperingsmith:
My agent in Jeddah sent his son over to the UK around 1976 with a big wodge of cash to buy Units, trailers, dustcarts & heavy haulage kit.I took him down to Joe Sullivans in Havant where amongst the kit he bought there was a 4x2 ex Pickfords ballast box Viewline
I donât remember the engine, I think it was a â â â â â â â but could have been RR, but I do remember it had an Allinson pre-select gearbox.It wasnât too bad a drive for a British built motor and the first & only time I ever played at reversing a trailer on a bar, what fun
I donât think it lasted long in Jeddah as I never saw it in their yard whenever I visited
There is a photo on Flickr, perhaps of the same one, in Sullivans yard - the most unlikely motor to take to Jeddah!! Surely it wasnât driven out there too??
It had a 220 â â â â â â â and a 10-speed Self Changing Gears (âWilsonâ) gearbox, semi-auto rather than pre-select, and was one of a batch of nine built for Pickfords. The motor in question was AMH 539H, and thereâs a photo, with text, here:
DEANB:
240 Gardner:
DEANB:
Out of intrest is the sleeper one a factory built one or did companies use someone like Jennings to do
a conversion â â1
No, the factory didnât build sleepers at all. This conversion was done by Colin Barrett, complete with a wheelbase extension.
Thanks Chris for confirming that.
Were they only built as artic units ? Was this one factory built or stretched Chris â â
0
It was artic only, with that one exception, and which was a special one-off build for the RTITB:
