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

DOWN TO ERF • Despite being only in his mid-twenties, Tommy Darley is already following in the family footsteps, and his home-restored ERF EC14 is proof-positive of this young enthusiast’s ability. Peter Simpson meets him…

LIGHT COMMERCIAL VALUES RISING!

REUNITED AFTER 60 YEARS

HERITAGE MACHINES

THE THIRD GENERATION

ERF A-SERIES • Pt1: Peter Davies begins an in-depth analysis of ERF’s radical and innovative heavyweight for the 1970s.

PD’s archive

A FORD FLOP? • Peter Simpson tells the stor y of Ford’s 1970s A Series, and tracks down a rare sur vivor.

Carrying on

Whittlesey Insurance Services Ltd

Letters

COMMERCIALS SHOW, BRITISH MOTOR MUSEUM

SWEET TREAT

CUMBRIAN SEASON STARTER

TIPPER MEMORIES • Paul Chapman has some interesting memories involving a couple of elderly Dodges, and his boss’s hat...

SIXTIES NOSTALGIA • Our recent request for more classic/archive material prompted reader Ian Usher to take a trip into the innermost depths of his loft, where he uncovered this selection, taken on a trusty Kodak Instamatic…

WENDY THE AMBULANCE • Mike Neale tells the incredible story of how a 1939 Morris Commercial CV11/30 ambulance sur vived being blown up, rebodied, crashed into, gutted, used to transport scrap, abandoned, pushed into a ditch and vandalised before finally being restored, over 30 years, by a man who drove it in ser vice.

BRIGHT LIGHTS OF BRIGHTON! • Following last month’s report on the heavier participants in the 2022 HCVS London to Brighton run, this month the Editor turns his attention to some of the light commercial highlights…

MODEL CORNER VANGUARD AND ATLAS VANS

SCAMMELL DUMP TRUCKS • Continuing our series celebrating 100 years of Scammell, Nick Baldwin looks at Watford’s on and off-road muckshifters.