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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FODEN FAMILY FAVOURITE

JOHN'S LIFE WITH LORRIES

NEWS

RARE 1955 FODEN HEADS TO NEWARK VINTAGE TRACTOR & HERITAGE SHOW • One of only around half a dozen surviving examples of Foden's short-lived FE4/8 will make its Newark debut this November, as a Kent family swaps steel wheels for a lorry in the show's commercial classes.

PD's archive • This month’s selection of period working shots reflects the progressive changes that happened in the haulage industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. Eight-wheelers with sheeted loads gave way to a new breed of European imports hauling continental style tilts followed by enclosed curtainsided trailers and ISO containers on skeletals. Flat lorries didn’t entirely die out of course and specialised vehicles like bulk liquid tankers and removal vans will always have a role to play.

WHITE ROAD COMMANDER 2

WRECKER TO THE RESCUE • Originally supplied as a water tanker to the War Department, this 1953 Morris-Commercial MRA.1, like many, was converted into a recovery truck once it had been 'demobbed'.

Letters

HEATHROW IN 1971

SOUTH YORKSHIRE TRANSPORT MUSEUM • Mike Neale enjoys the eclectic collection of buses, cars, commercial vehicles, models and motorbikes on display at the South Yorkshire Transport Museum in Rotherham.

BEFORE THE BAN

Carrying on

BUFFALO REBORN! • Last month, we saw how well Tom Pemberton’s Leyland Buffalo emerged from its extensive professional rebuild. Now, though, it’s time to start telling the story of how it was done.

BEGUILING BEAGLE

Corgi is 70

ATKINSONS AT SANDTOFT • Once again, the annual Atkinson Gathering headed to the National Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft and David Reed was there to enjoy the festivities.

FODENS SHINE AT STATFOLD • The Statfold Country Park has become a major attraction in its own right over recent years. But it is home to numerous events during the year, with a collection of Fodens in attendance at the end of May.

CYPRIOT CLASSICS • Mention classic lorries and the Mediterranean, and most people immediately think of Malta. However Cyprus also has much to offer, as Oliver King-Whittles has discovered.

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