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

UNIQUE SCAMMEL • Tony Ready is only 32 and though this eight-year project was his first major restoration, the quality of the end product is superb. Here is the story, as told by the man himself...

EASTERN COUNTIES SHOW CANCELLED

BEDFORD WINS AT BASINGSTOKE

AECS AND MORE

BUFFALO UPDATE

SEDDON ATKINSON 400 • Pt2: Peter Davies continues the stor y of the first lorr y to emerge from the merged Seddon and Atkinson businesses.

PD’S ARCHIVES

LETTERS

BREWERY BEDFORD • Pete Grieve’s Bedford TL has been lovingly restored to replicate a typical Scottish & Newcastle dray truck of the 1980s as a tribute to his late father. Pip Dunn tells the story…

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GONE BUTNOT FORGOTTEN

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.

ERF CONTRASTS • Our look around Jamie Newton’s large lorry collection continues with a pair of somewhat contrasting ERFs, and looking at them provides an opportunity to see just how much lorries changed between 1975 and 1995..

CUMBRIA CLASSIC RALLY

MODEL CORNER • Mike Neale looks at some some shelf-size classics, this time taking a familiar Rootes product as his theme…

MORRIS MAILVAN • For many,the Morris J-Type is still the archetypal British GPO van, even though the last one left service in 1970. Mike Neale tracks down asurvivor and its enthusiastic new owners for whom its acquisition fulfils along-held dream.

HERE FOR THE BEER • Pt 3: Nick Baldwin concludes his personal look at lorries used to transport alcoholic beverages…

EVENTS DIARY • This diary has been compiled from information supplied by event organisers, and while every effort has been made to ensure that it is accurate and correct, neither Kelsey Media or Station House Publishing are able to accept responsibility for changes,errors and mistakes.We strongly recommend that readers checkevent details, and the type of vehicles that normally attend, priortotravelling long distances.

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