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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MAXILOAD MAGNIFICENT! • Phil Marshall’s fabulous restoration of a 1966 Commer included making his own press tools! Peter Simpson tells the story.

The Restoration in Pictures

Phil’s Press Tools

£13,000 DODGE • 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

MID-WALES CLASSICS

DARRAN WON

HERITAGE BOOKAZINES

SHOWBUS RETURNS! SHOWBUS 2024

CVC BACK ISSUES

FODEN 6X4 TRACTOR UNITS • Not many British lorry manufacturers made 6x4 tractor units other than for specialist heavy haulage, but Paccar-owned Foden thought it was the way forward when the artic weight limit was increased to 38 tonnes in 1983. Peter Davies begins a two-part analysis…

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Letters • YOUR VIEWS, COMMENTS AND RECOLLECTIONS…

SHROPSHIRE SWEDE • The Volvo F88 was one of the new wave of continental lorries that dominated the British haulage industry. Lewis Weaver’s 1975 example has been restored recently. Bob Weir tells the story, and gets to see some other stuff in the shed…

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE VINTAGE LORRY ENTHUSIAST

SHIFTING SANDS…

Carrying on • We welcome photos of older lorries (15 years and older) that are still in service for publication in this section. We can accept contributions by email - cvc.ed@kelsey.co.uk, or by post to The Editor, Classic & Vintage Commercials, PO Box 1243, SPALDING, PE11 9HE. Please provide as much (or as little) information about a vehicle as you are able and, before entering or taking photos on provide property, please ensure that you all the permissions that you need to be there, and to be taking photographs.

CHRISTMAS CHEER • THAT LASTS ALL YEAR!

ATKINSONS AT SANDTOFT

MEMORIES OF A PARTS ADVISOR • CVC reader Michael Leftley recalls his time behind the parts counter at Ford and then Leyland dealerships, and the two firms contrasting approaches…

BUSBY BEDFORD • Mike Neale tells the story of the Mills Bothers latest Post Office van restoration.

MODEL CORNER PRE-WAR MORRIS/MORRIS-COMMERCIAL LIGHT VANS • Mike Neale concludes the story started last month with a look at some whitemetal models.

RELICS IN ROTHERHAM • Continuing our short series on commercial vehicle museum collections, David Reed visited the South Yorkshire Transport Museum…

LET’S TALK RUBBISH • Nick Baldwin starts a new series on the history of refuse collection lorries.

Next month • COMING UP IN THE JANUARY 2024 ISSUE - OUT FRIDAY DECEMBER 22 JUST IN TIME TO READ OVER CHRISTMAS!