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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FIVE FORDS AND AN AEC! • Over the past ten year's Noffolk entgysuast Hanue Bewitib has assenbked a fine collection of old lorries. pater Simpson takes a look.

Renovation and Restoration

NOT SO SMART?

2023 EVENTS DIARY

JTYPES AT 75!

NEW HOME FOR SOLWAY SHOW

BASINGSTOKE 2023

THIRD TIME LUCKY • It was definitely acase of third time lucky as far as German lorrymaker Magirus Deutz’s attempts to enter the UK market were concerned, but when it finally happened they had amassive impact on the eight-wheeler tipper market. Peter Davies starts the story.

PD'S azchive

SCANIA AND VOLVO DIMENSIONS

Letters

THORPE FLEET MODELS

DRAWINGS FOR MODEL-MAKERS

KINGS LYNN CLASSICS

SUNTERS SCANIA • Simon Howard’s newly restored Scania 110 replicates a vehicle operated by a legendary heavy haulage company. David Reed tells the story.

PERKINS POWERED SCAMMELL

WHEELS OF INDUSTRY • Back in 1957, when this AEC Mammoth Major Mk.III eight-wheeler joined Allison’s Transport (Contracts) Ltd of Dundee, Great Britain was a leading industrial power and it was lorries like this that literally kept the wheels of industry turning, bringing in vital revenue to fund our essential public services

Carrying on

DERBYSHIRE UPS AND DOWNS

ATKINSONS AT SANDTOFT

MODEL CORNER • Mike Neale looks at a popular lorry range which inspired surprisingly few models.

ULEZ-BEATING LCVS! • Fancy a light commercial vehicle to own and use in a post-ULEZ city environment? Peter Simpson has a few suggestions

SNAIL MAIL VAN • Not all GPO Minor vans were made post-war; there was also an earlier version which the Post Office liked so much they had Morris carry on making it for eight years after the civilian version finished. Mike Neale tells the story, and tracks down a restored example.

MARATHON MAN • Nick Baldwin provides a little more information and illustration regarding the “AEC in all but name” prototype…

Club DIRECTORY • EVERY care has been taken in compiling this list of clubs and organizations, however, if you would like to alter any details then contact us at cvc.ed@kelsey.co.uk or write to Classic and Vintage Commercials, Kelsey Media, PO Box 1243, Spalding, PE11 9HE. If your club has not been listed then, once again, please get in touch and we will make sure it is included.