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.

Classic & Vintage Commercials

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MARVELLOUS MANDATOR! • Andrew Leonard owns several preserved lorries, and an increasing collection of vans, but this 1973 AEC Mandator is probably one of his favourites. Peter Simpson finds out why.

TONY MCGOVERN 1945-2024 • If you have a News story, e-mail cvc.ed@kelsey.co.uk or write to The Editor, Classic and Vintage Commercials, PO Box 1243, Spalding PE11 9HE

WORKING ATKIS

THE SAME BUT CHEAPER!

SPEEDY SPARES TO CLOSE

AUTUMN ROAD RUN

FORD TRANSCONTINENTAL • Peter Davies begins a detailed look at Ford’s 1970s heavyweight which despite being thought of – and sold – as British was actually made in Holland from mainly French and American parts.

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LONG-TERM COLLECTION • The Editor stumbles on a fascinating collection of old lorries being kept just a few miles from his home…

Carrying on • We welcome photos of older lorries (15 years and older) that are still in service for publication in this section. We can accept contributions by email - cvc.ed@kelsey.co.uk, or by post to The Editor, Classic & Vintage Commercials, PO Box 1243, SPALDING, PEl 1 9HE. Please provide as much (or as little) information about a vehicle as you are able and, before entering or taking photos on private property, please ensure that you have all the permissions that you need to be there, and to be taking photographs.

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DOVER DELIGHTS • The Editor fulfils a long-held ambition to visit the Dover Transport Museum, and is impressed…

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BUXTON BOYS RUN JUNE 4

CHESTER-LE-STREET STEAM AND VINTAGE RALLY JULY 8-9

KELSALL STEAM RALLY JUNE 24 AND 25 2023

MINOR REBUILD • Bob Weir went to meet the Makepeace family and their ex-museum Minor Van, and learns about its extensive restoration.

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MODEL CORNER 1940S-70s COMMER AND KARRIER FORWARD CONTROL LORRIES • Pt2: Following last month’s look at models made primarily as toys, Mike Neale looks at those aimed at modern-day collectors.

LONDON PRIDE • We kick off the revamped Vintage Roadscene content with a selection of images in and around our capital city between the 1950s and the 1980s.

PAGEFIELD PIONEER • Nick Baldwin’s series on refuse collection continues with some early innovation, mechanisation - and sausages!

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