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

BIG BERTHA REBORN! • When bought for preser vation, this Bedford TV Outside Broadcast Unit was a tatty empty shell. Now, though, it’s been restored with a full set of period equipment, and it all works! Peter Simpson tells the story.

BRIGHTON RUN CHANGES

BOOKINGS OPEN FOR MALVERN SHOW

RARE MAESTROS WANTED

HARRINGTON GATHERINGS RETURN

GOOD NEWS FROM GAYDON

SCAMMELL SUCCESS

SCANIA 2 & 3 SERIES

PD's archive

THE SAGA OF CUMMINS’ VEE

CARTERS ATKINSON

DAVIS BROTHERS R8

OLD LORRIES ON MADEIRA

THANK YOU!

ROAD MENDING MEMORIES

LONDON BRICK & LEYLANDS

GIANT OCTOPUS! • The Enteroctopus dofleini or Giant Octopus is the largest of the species, but far from the most common. Ian Shaw found something ver y similar in captivity…

Carrying on

GREAT WHITE • This 1978 White Road Commander 2 is a great example of the late 1970s genre of American imports to the UK. Enthusiasts were treated to the likes of White, Kenworth and Mack during a brief period in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This left hooker suited Aberdeen based Tom Shanks as most of their work was allied to the oil industry and regularly took them into Europe. The firm, formed in 1972, ran a mixed fleet of some 40 trucks and was absorbed into Allen Munro of Skelmersdale in 1994. YOA67T is seen here loaded with a heavy Komatsu tracked loader. Note the ‘ACE’ name on the grille made up of letters borrowed from an Ergomatic AEC.

DOWN TO ERF • In 1972 ERF introduced a new chassis number designation for its A Series lorries. Graham Dale from Shropshire owns a superb model LAG. Bob Weir reports.

KELSALL 2022

THE 2022 CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW

MODEL CORNER • Mike Neale looks at Austin A55 & A60 vans and pickups in miniature

HALF-TON TALBOT • Back in the 1980s, Simca vans were fairly plentiful as well as ver y audible. By the late-1990s however they’d almost all gone. Mike Neale tells the stor y and tracks down an ultra-rare sur vivor.

ONE CAREFUL OWNER • Summit Garage’s restored Maestro van is a familiar sight at BL-type events and in regular use around Dudley. Its backstor y isn’t however, so widely known, as Russ Har vey explains.

CAB MATTERS • Pt3: Nick Baldwin concludes this short series with some interesting examples from overseas.

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