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 But Heritage Commercials is not just about old drivers – its strong historical content looks at the various vehicle manufacturers, while it keeps up to date with the current preservation scene with stories of beautifully restored vehicles of a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!

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Heritage Commercials

Welsh Wizards • Family haulage firms have had to negotiate some choppy waters in recent years to keep their heads above water. Ivor Owen & Sons from North Wales is still going strong, and Brian has also found time to collect some classic lorries, Bob Weir reports.

In memory of Edmund Burrows • A RENOWNED REPORTER FOR HERITAGE COMERCIALS, WHO VERY SADLY PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 81

Jeff Watret

MORRIS MINOR RESTORATION MANUAL

VINTAGE SCAMMELL SHINES AT CHEFFINS SALE • Cheffins Auctioneers held a Vintage Sale at the sale ground, Cambridgeshire, in late October writes Joseph Lewis.

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The Waste Equipment and Vehicle Show, July 1995 • In July 1995, the Institute of Municipal Transport (IMT) held its first Waste Equipment and Vehicle Show in Perry Park, Birmingham. The idea was to offer private and public sector waste customers an alternate exhibition to the Torbay Wastes Management Show. The exhibition was centrally located, with easy access from the M5 and the M6 motorways, as well as all other major road networks, writes Timothy Byrne.

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE CLASSIC TRUCK ENTHUSIAST

CIMOS-Citroën Dak and GERI… • …these are rare, produced by Cimos-Citroën in Koper, Slovenia

Another Shropshire Sojourn – A second look at lorries from the county of Shropshire • Following-on from ‘A Shropshire Sojourn’, I thought I would take a further look-back at lorries from operators based in the county of Shropshire, writes Michael Marshall.

Commercials at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show at the NEC 10-12 November 2023

The ‘Big Bedford’ story – Part 3 • Mike and Julie Blenkinsop continue to look at the Bedford ‘R’ and ‘S’ series lorries, some of which ‘soldiered’ on into the millennium.

Cliff Bennett • At the bottom of Melbourne road and the top of Hinckley Road (A447) and the junction with Station Road (B586), there is a street lamp, a three-fingered road sign and a village seat called ‘the Stumps’,a name going back to the mists of time when there were a lot of trees cut down here, hence the name.

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The weight of the world (on five axles!) • It’s now 40 years since the UK went from 32 to 38 tonnes GVW which made the early 1980s some of the most fascinating of times for truck enthusiasts with a mass of new vehicles from British and foreign manufacturers.

Renault re-writes the rules • In 1990, the most futuristic and different truck cab ever seen on a European truck broke cover when Renault unveiled its amazing Magnum which was literally, head and shoulders above anything else! Pip Dunn tells the story.

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