Heritage Commercials

Heritage Commercials magazine is Britain’s brightest full colour magazine for classic and vintage commercial vehicle enthusiasts. It celebrates the days when roads were still quiet and lorry driving was fun as well as hard work. But Heritage Commercials is not just about old drivers – its strong historical content looks at the various vehicle manufacturers, while it keeps up to date with the current preservation scene with stories of beautifully restored vehicles of a bygone age, and their owners, being featured. The magazine also regularly features light commercials – vans to you and me – buses and coaches, fire engines and military vehicles, as well as keeping in touch with the ever growing number of superb long distance road runs and events held throughout the year. This is living history on the move!

1944 Atkinson eight-legger

Heritage Commercials

Ford 11Y closed cab truck ‘The Flying Dutchman’ • The original Flying Dutchman was a legendary sailing ship that travelled the Seven Seas but never making port. This truck is very different, it has sailed across seas, it has made port but now is looking for another. Its massive engine and light payload ensured a speedy delivery. delivery.

Bath &West Commercials

Wolverhampton Guy Arab SUK 3 Restoration Appeal

BOOK REVIEWS • Everyday Modifications For Your Morris Minor

LORRIES IN BRITAIN THE 1990s

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BUSES

LEEDS BUSES SINCE 2000

More on the Recovery Position • Michael Marshall takes a look at more recovery lorries from years gone by.

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Leyland’s missing link • Only in the nick of time has the East Lancashire Railway and Bury Transport Museum’s rare civilian spec 1941 Leyland been saved for posterity. Ed Burrows covers the recent restoration of a 12-tonner that features the cab design which, but for a quirk of circumstance, might have been standard for the first post-war generation of Leyland heavies.

High Weald Steam Working Weekend

Wrotham Classic Transport Rally

Festival of Transport • (Barry Island, South Wales)

Cuckoo Spring Fayre at Laughton

Hadlow Down Traction Engine and Historic Vehicle Rally

Commercial Vehicle & Road Transport Club Show

The Humber Story – Part Two • When the Rootes group was given the opportunity to provide the British Army with a one-ton, go-anywhere truck, they designed an exemplary vehicle which progressed to fulfil a second and a third life role. Mike and Julie Blenkinsop continue their story on Humber.

A survivor of so few… • …Austin A35 pick-up, ‘The Beast’ is one of less than 500 produced Worldwide!

Going that bit higher! • For many drivers, sleeper cabs were a luxury in the 1970s, but the end of that decade saw the birth of the extended high roof sleeper. And since then, truck manufacturers have made their cabs bigger, better, then bigger and better again!

Kelsall breaks the record! • The annual gathering at Kelsall was held in late June, and it broke the record for the number of ERF on show in one place. Pip Dunn went along

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