This could equally well be called Cabs Matter as either makes complete sense for drivers, operators and the firms that used to produce cabs. They were the one distinctive feature on most vehicles - or were they? As is well known, different chassis sometimes used similar cabs, which has caused a degree of confusion down the ages. A few years ago, I showed the dozens of American users of the Chicago Manufacturing cab that was best known on Internationals.
We have our own classic examples here with the Briggs cab seen on Thames, Comet and parrot-nose Dodge. Then came all manner of variants on the Motor Panels of Coventry cab, used by many of the big players from the 1950s to the 1990s taking in along the way the LAD cab. This was, of course, exclusive
