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    Lorries of Arabia: ERF NGC: 2
    Lorries of Arabia: ERF NGC: 2
    Lorries of Arabia: ERF NGC: 2
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    Lorries of Arabia: ERF NGC: 2

    By Robert Hackford

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    This book is a companion to the hugely popular Lorries of Arabia: ERF NGC, published in 2015. The first book made tribute to ERF's world-class long-hauler, focussing in particular on the Middle-East examples, and to those who drove them. It was acclaimed for its "evocative photographs" and Robert's "passionate" and descriptive style of writing and Truck and Driver called it "essential reading for the many enthusiasts of this golden chapter in haulage history".Lorries of Arabia 2 continues to explore the fortunes of this legendary machine. Including 100 fully captioned pictures, many of which have only been brought to light since the publication of Lorries, this volume clearly demonstrates the romance of the road. This book will enhance and enrich the body of knowledge pertaining to the culture of the Middle-East run in the 1970s/80s and will further delight fans of the first book, whetting their appetite for more
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOld Pond Books
    Release dateApr 28, 2016
    ISBN9781910456460
    Lorries of Arabia: ERF NGC: 2
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    Robert Hackford

    Robert Hackford is a retired head teacher and long-haul trucker. He is also the author of 'Kamyonistan Quartet' (a novel, Athena press) together with many articles published in the trade press (truck mags).

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      Lorries of Arabia - Robert Hackford

      INTRODUCTION

      (Photo: Peter Davies)

      The picture above was taken at the 1974 Earls Court motor show. This ERF NGC had a Cummins 335. At this stage, the NGC was still only an export model as it wasn’t offered to UK operators until 1975.

      Thanks to ERF archivist Barry Randall, we now know that only 91 ERF NGCs were built in total, but that didn’t put me off writing Lorries of Arabia: ERF NGC. The publication of that book created quite a lot of interest, stimulating new contributors to bring a wealth of fresh information, stories and pictures into the arena about this fascinating lorry. Having now met a surprising number of drivers who pushed these lorries to their limits in the Middle East it hard to find anyone with a serious complaint against them. These vehicles were very highly regarded indeed by those who used them. At least 31 of them are known either to have worked on the Middle East run or to have worked on the Arabian Peninsula on ‘internals’: hence this continuation of that theme. Theoretically, there is no reason why all 31 of them couldn’t have been in the Middle East at the same point in time – and there may have been more!

      This volume continues to explore the fortunes of this legendary ERF. To avoid unnecessary repetition, Lorries of Arabia 2: ERF NGC is designed to be a companion to the first book and has a different format, being made up of pictures supported by detailed captions, rather than having a full text supported by pictures.

      (Photo: TRUCK magazine)

      Whilst other British manufacturers, such as Leyland, were producing special, long-haul left-hand-drive versions of domestic models to meet the requirements of Britain’s entry into the Common Market during the 1970s, ERF produced the NGC, which was a unique long-hauler designed solely for operation in Europe and the Middle East.

      The NGC ‘European’ (to give it its full name) was only ever built with left-hand drive and nearly all of them were powered by a turbocharged Cummins NTC 335 engine, driving through a Fuller Road-Ranger 9-speed gearbox and a heavy duty Kirkstall D85 hub-reduction 13-tonne axle. Just a handful, however, were equipped with Cummins NTC 290s coupled to 13-speed Fuller ’boxes. The very well-appointed Motor Panels cab is described in some detail in Lorries of Arabia: ERF NGC. It could be tilted to 68 degrees and had provision for a roof-mounted air-conditioning unit.

      ERF’s coding system to describe, for example, the NGC 420 works as follows: N = 7MW ‘European’ steel cab; G = export special specification cab; C = Cummins; 42 = 42 tonnes GTW; 0 = 4x2 two axle tractive unit or rigid.

      Although ERF brochures of the 1970s offered Gardner engines as an option, it is now known from ERF records that no NGC left the factory with a Gardner engine.

      (Photo: Robert Hackford)

      This close-up picture of KCH 95N shows how beautifully Gary Corbishley has restored it.

      The superior performance of the NGC was legendary, especially in the mountains, but with escalating fuel costs the comparatively thirsty NTC 335 hastened the NGC’s replacement with the more sophisticated LHD B-series ERF in 1977. Built between the beginning of 1973 and the end of 1977 the NGC maintained a small but very special place in the history of the Middle East run, a third of them having performed on the Arabian Peninsula.

      This book is about the ERF with the boxy, square-fronted, tall version of the Motor

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