The SP2 cab ERF launched in 1974 for its B series and later used for its C and CP models, was a good cab for its time. It was a massive step change from the dated LV/A series cab which was most definitely stuck in the 1950s and 60s.
In its latest guise as the SP4A on the E series, it was, nevertheless beginning to show its age. While the cab, when launched on the B series was one of the best of the early 1970s, by two decades later it was past its prime.
But ERF had an answer, and that replacement emerged in early 1993 as the EC series. You can argue there was still a lot of similarities between the EC and the E. Like the SP4A cab, the headlights were in the bumper, there was a large rectangular front grille. But that was no bad thing at all.
The EC was to move ERF up a gear in the minds of many operators. It would be able to take on fleet trucks like DAF’s new CF, Volvo’s FL10 and Mercedes ageing Powerliner models but also compete at the higher end of the scale with the Volvo FH, plus Scania’s 3 series – which itself was also now showing signs of age. But newer cabs of theand a host of other rivals meant ERF had to update. Those marques in ERF’s sights were Foden with its 4000 series, Seddon Atkinson’s with its new Strato2 models with the same cab as Iveco’s Eurotech and Eurostar models and Iveco, MAN and DAF.
