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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CLASSICS & Vintage COMMERCIALS

Stunning Silver Knight! • Neil Cook spent 18 years restoring this Atkinson Silver Knight from near-scrap condition. Peter Simpson tells the story…

TOM KAREN 1926-2022

SPRING MALVERN SHOW

MORRIS HISTORY FOUND

BRIGHTON RUN 2023 CANCELLED

DODGE 300 SERIES • Pt1 Peter Davies begins an in-depth analysis of the so-called ‘Spanish Dodge.’

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FAMILY AFFAIR • Edward and Annie Prentice have recently added a second Scammell to their collection. Peter Simpson went over to take a look, and met an extremely enthusiastic family of lorr y fans…

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 private property, please ensure that you have all the permissions that you need to be there, and to be taking photographs.

CHOCOLATE MOUSE

ERNEST THORPE TRANSPORT REMEMBERED

CLASSIC & VINTAGE COMMERCIALS

HCVS TYNE TEES RUN

HCVS SPRAT & WINKLE RUN 2022

AEC/LEYLAND/ALBION ERGOMATICS

ONLY ORIGINAL ONCE • Back in 1995, the ver y first issue of Classic & Vintage Commercials featured the discover y of a remarkably original 4400 mile Morris Cowley Van in a London mews garage. 27 years on, Brian Culpan provides an update.

DESIRABLE DORMOBILE • Jim Richardson’s 1963 SWB Bedford CA Dormobile is in remarkably original condition, and won the Best Bedford prize on last year’s HCVS Brighton Run. Mike Neale finds out more.

ALBION SUNSET • Nick Baldwin looks at the final years of Albion, and what happened after lorry production moved south from Scotstoun.

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