Classic & Vintage Commercials

Classic & Vintage Commercials magazine is dedicated to heavy commercial vehicles. Focusing on the truck manufacturers from the heyday of road haulage over the past eight decades. Take a trip down memory lane with Britain’s best-selling classic road-haulage magazine. From reader’s restorations and recollections to company histories and archive images, you’ll find a welcome mix of nostalgia and news and even some classic trucks for sale.

Classic & Vintage Commercials

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LOCAL LORRY • It took Geoff Hubbard years of badgering to obtain this 1952 Bedford from a Norfolk farmer. 40 years later, it took another five years to restore.

NEW LOOK FOR BEDFORD • If you have a News story, e-mail cvc.ed@kelsey.co.uk or write to The Editor, Classic and Vintage Commercials, PO Box 1243, Spalding PE11 9HE

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VOLVO F10/F12/F16 • Peter Davies begins an-in-depth look at Volvo’s highly-successful and Scottish-assembled late-1970s range…

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300 NOT OUT! • They never sold in great numbers back in the 70s and 80s, so it’s no surprise the number of preserved Dodge 300s can be counted on one hand, with digits to spare. But Pip Dunn found one that has definitely dodged the axe.

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CIRCUS CLASSICS! • When Circus Fantasia visited Scratby in Lincolnshire recently, Mike Sowinski was as interested in their classic lorries as he was in the clowns, tightrope walkers and so on…

ALL THE AECs • David Reed reports on the AECs attending this year’s AEC Gathering at Newark…

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VANGUARD VARIATION • Mike Neale tells the story of Standard’s light-commercial versions of the Vanguard saloons, and meets a man who has quite a collection…

MODEL CORNER BEDFORD K AND M-TYPE • A double treat for Bedford fans this month, as Mike Neale looks at some even smaller examples….

BLACK GOLD • Pt7: After a short break, Nick Baldwin continues his look at some of the real heavyweights used to find and extract oil.

Next month • COMING UP IN THE NOVEMBER 2023 ISSUE - OUT FRIDAY OCTOBER 27