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

MILITANT MAGNIFICENT! • Rob Smith tells the story of his second AEC Militant restoration, and it’s a real beauty!

BRIGHTON’S BACK!

RARE BEDFORD NEEDS HELP

FENLAND FOX

POSTAL J4 RETURNING TO UK

TRUCKFEST 2022

LCVS AT POL

SCAMMELL CRUSADER • As part of our series of features marking the anniversary of Scammell Lorries Ltd, Peter Davies begins a two-part analysis of the Crusader range.

PD’s archive

HINO CLASSIC! • The number of restored Hinos in the UK can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and you’d probably still have some digits left. But CVC tracked down a stunning eight-wheeler, and dispatched Pip Dunn to Maple Cross to find out more….

MACK MAGNIFICENCE! • Darron Wilson’s 1950 Mack LJT is an ongoing conser vation project. David Reed tells the story.

Carrying on

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

BURIED BUFFALO UPDATE • Peter Simpson provides an annual update on progress with WW2 Amphibious Landing Craft 47, also known as the ‘Crowland Buffalo.’

DRAX 2021

A MORRIS NAMED MARLENE • Mike Neale tells the story of a 1963 Morris FGK40 Post Office Telephones 25cwt Luton Utility with a few differences…

SHELVOKE & DREWRY 1922-2022 • Yes, It’s 100 years since the foundation of the specialist commercial vehicle and forklift manufacturer, Shelvoke & Drewry – an event that will be celebrated at the Classic & Vintage Commercials Show at the British Motor Museum, Gaydon on June 11/12. Malcolm Bates takes up the story...

STEWART CLASSICS RECREATED • Walter Williamson describes his brother Jim’s shelf-sized recreations of some lorries he recalls from family holidays

MODEL CORNER COMMER WALK-THRU VAN • Mike Neale looks at miniaturised versions of a classic Rootes commercial from the sixties…

Reynolds-Boughton • Bedford-engined Ford? Rover-powered Dodge? Nick Baldwin begins a two-part look at a specialist manufacturer whose output ranged from timber tractors to airfield crash tenders.