Look at the Where am I forum & there’s a pic of a Globetrotter in a thread titled ‘where was my dad 1979’ if that is the correct date for the pic then there’s your answer lads 
I must say though that the sunvisor on the lorry nearest the wall looks suspiciously like a Scania 2 series which would date that pic 82 at least 
I really must get out more 
newmercman:
Look at the Where am I forum & there’s a pic of a Globetrotter in a thread titled ‘where was my dad 1979’ if that is the correct date for the pic then there’s your answer lads
Nope - two years too late.
ERF’s raised-roof factory sleeper was introduced in 1977.
marky:
newmercman:
Look at the Where am I forum & there’s a pic of a Globetrotter in a thread titled ‘where was my dad 1979’ if that is the correct date for the pic then there’s your answer ladsNope - two years too late.
ERF’s raised-roof factory sleeper was introduced in 1977.
Not again…
The original question was what was the first BIG sleeper, as in Globey, Space cab etc, I know that B series cab was roomy for its time but it was just a sleeper cab. 
Anyway I’ve just looked at the Turin pic again & the lorry at the front is deffo a 2 series Scania so it wasn’t 1979 so it’s back to you lot again
I drove several lorries back in the 60’s amd 70’s that had sleepers built by “Plank & Board” 
These guys are the hero’s, the kings of the road for sure i’m in awe of photo’s like this especially when i used to swear at the semi auto box on my merc 
or i get wound up by something daft like the selector has found a false neutral or wont go into reverse then i see a photo like that and just p…s my pants at how stupid i am
In my humble opinion the Globetrotter is the Daddy of the big sleepers - there may have been other extended cabs prior BUT the Globetrotter was the first real market wide one, the one everyone wanted to have. They had legendary status in their time - it makes me sick to see them on FL’s now - its like putting a Globetrotter roof on an F7 for gawds sake!
Is that my “Night Heater” boss, in the bottom left of the Picture
some good pics and comments there guys, really wish I had been about to drive some of them!
I do like the steam truck tho!
TNT put some ERFs on the road with high top sleepers on them, I think they were Y Reg, is that 1983? They had straight 8 Gardiners in them. I’ve no idea what te model name was.
BB
Y-reg was 1982-3, so the ERF you recalled was definitely a C-Series (C40) with either a 8LXC (265) or 8LXCT (300) Gardner engine installed.
New to Lowes, Paddockwood 1969 and now owned by Nev Peate, Oswestry
Hiya…all ERF did a continental cab (Motor panels)in 1967 and was a bigger sleeper than a F88. ERF also had a Raised roof on a 1968 ERF(comarts)
but no sleeper was fitted. theres a photo of it burned out nr Mont Blanc on a TN site.
There was a ERF Fitted with a Bowyer sleeper cab and i think that was 1964/65 model
Heres a 1968 ERF that has been used as a sleeper cab but origanally was used as a crew cab.Eaton Yale had a similar cab for demonasrating
roadranger gearboxes but was run on trade plates…This lorry i saw at donnington about 3 years ago
some of this knowlage comes from working at Jennings/ERF in the late 60s doing cab modifactions and exp work.
John
Wow…oxo3…I was trying to submit and it must have been loging in you photo…I did’nt know where PKR had gone to after the auction
so now i know thats nice.I remember that cab been built the chap who did the main fibre glass/ wood work did 3 one after the other
but for the life of me i can’ot remember his name but can see his face like it was yesterday.i did some steel and ally work on them.
John
Hello John, I was talking to ERF lads that were working on this lorry when being built and they said the man that designed the cab was coming to see it. I was at Sandbach festival 18/04/10, They told me lowes P/wood was the first to build.,I told them they were wrong as North Shropshire Transport had one brand new in 1968 (F reg) and driven by Graham Weetman. I have large photo on wall in my office. Im sure you will find it on the Old Oswestry thread.
Nev
Hiya all…I ve just found this photo on the Wheeler Williams site. Wheeler did the rounds on differant Stoke firms and was a well liked chap
unfortunatley he pass away to early…This is one of his old rides.1968 Scania with a sleeper cab .Its a pitty hes not here to share the stories.
John
Hiya… can anyone remember a chap who fitted two F88 cabs together…He cut the back and part of the roof out then he sat the second cab
behind and partly on top…he went to the trouble to cut the windscreens down so the roof was like the American jobs. I saw it a couple of
times on the M4 in the mid 70s…I don’t suppose theres a photo of it sitting in a draw somewhere.
John
3300John:
Hiya… can anyone remember a chap who fitted two F88 cabs together…He cut the back and part of the roof out then he sat the second cab
behind and partly on top…he went to the trouble to cut the windscreens down so the roof was like the American jobs. I saw it a couple of
times on the M4 in the mid 70s…I don’t suppose theres a photo of it sitting in a draw somewhere.
John
Hi John
I think there was a man called Dave who ran a small company called Technical Transport who had a Volvo like that also did the same thing to a Scania, that’s how I knew him as I sold him loads of Scania spare parts.
oxo3:
Hello John, I was talking to ERF lads that were working on this lorry when being built and they said the man that designed the cab was coming to see it. I was at Sandbach festival 18/04/10, They told me lowes P/wood was the first to build.,I told them they were wrong as North Shropshire Transport had one brand new in 1968 (F reg) and driven by Graham Weetman. I have large photo on wall in my office. Im sure you will find it on the Old Oswestry thread.
Nev
Hiya …Nev…As i left ERF in 72 (another ression) i started driving and lost contact with THE LADS. Also Jennings was engulfted into ERF.
i was living in Leek 20 miles away so we lost contact…The cabs did’nt go down the usual cab line they was built static by a coach builder
who i think was Graham Jones(A quiet chap but good at his job)and me been a panel beater(roudy) did the alterations on the bonnets
that was differant than a day cab…Sleeper cabs was not a item in those days so we called them crew cabs( you will have seen the KV cab
at the shows (Green one)which was earlier than PKR…Was the chap who designed PKR called Peter Townsend■■? he had alot to do with the
A series cab. One day he asked me to make these long s shaped alumium lengths about 14 i think so i made 20 and said he’d got some spares
Well i thought he was making a dog gate or something it turned out to be the A series grill.
John