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.

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Classic & Vintage Commercials

SUPER STRATO • Darran Clark’s restored 1989 Seddon Atkinson Strato Cruiser recalls the lorries that were current during his apprenticeship and went on to operate in his early days as an owner-driver. Peter Simpson tells the story.

HCVS BRIGHTON RUN BACK FOR 2024 • New start at Brooklands

TRANSPORT TRUST AWARDS 2023 • The National Transport Trust’s 2023 Awards were presented by HRH The Princess Royal in a ceremony held at the late Lord McAlpine’s Fawley Hill Railway Museum on September 18.

AUTUMN LAUGHTON

NEW SHOW IN YORKSHIRE

VOLVO F10/F12/F16 • Pt 2: Peter Davies concludes the story, with post-1980 improvements and developments….

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Letters • YOUR VIEWS, COMMENTS AND RECOLLECTIONS…

EVENTS DIARY

CLASSIC K2 • Alan Wait’s working clothes Austin K2 is a reminder of the immediate post-war years when, with the industry much less regulated than today, similar lorries could be seen at work everywhere. Bob Weir tells the story.

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE VINTAGE LORRY ENTHUSIAST

THIRTY, NOT OUT!

Carrying on

NON-AECS AT NEWARK • Following last month’s report on AECs at the May bank holiday AEC rally, here are a few of the other makes in attendance.

NATIONAL TRANSPORT MUSEUM OF IRELAND • With the show season now over for another year, Mike Neale suggests a destination for transport enthusiasts who can’t wait until next spring…

THE BLACK COUNTRY LIVING MUSEUM • The famous Dudley open air living museum has just opened a new area dedicated to the period from 1945 to 1969, and it includes a selection of commercial vehicles from this era. The Editor went along to take a look.

TEUTONIC FIRE TRUCK • Mike Neale reports on an ingenious repurposing of a 1976 Mercedes-Benz LF 408G fire truck…

MORRIS/MORRIS-COMMERCIAL LIGHT VANS • Mike Neale kicks off a two-part look at shelf-sized pre-war Nuffield products…

BLACK GOLD • Pt8: The end. Nick Baldwin concludes the series with some tying of loose ends and a look into the future…

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