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 But Heritage Commercials is not just about old drivers – its strong historical content looks at the various vehicle manufacturers, while it keeps up to date with the current preservation scene with stories of beautifully restored vehicles of a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

TWO AUSTIN SEVEN VANS, ‘EARLY AND LAST’ • The dinky-sized Seven van was popular with small shopkeepers who wanted to offer a delivery service; often replacing the errand boy and his heavy shop-bike. Obviously, bouquets of flowers are lightweight, as are, hopefully, bread and cakes. So, an initial payload of just 2.5cwt was more than sufficient. Seven vans came in three types, these two featured vans represent the early and the last vans based on the Seven.

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Specialist publications • By the 1970s, Scammell was very much a specialist truck maker and very much a part of BL. Its brochures at the time reflected that.

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THE DENNIS EAGLE ELITE CHASSIS AND THE COMPANY’S REFUSE COMPACTION BODIES FROM THE ERAS 1992 – 1994 • In 1992, Dennis Eagle, the UK’s largest manufacturer of refuse collection vehicles, launched the Dennis Elite low entry municipal chassis. The purpose of this design was to meet present needs as well as the future demands of waste collection into the twenty first century.

The ‘Big Bedford’ story – Part 4 • One particularly radical change of face for the Bedford on the RL platform in the 1950s was the Armoured Mine-Resistant Vehicle. Two very different styles were built. Mike and Julie Blenkinsop conclude their story on Bedford.

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JIM FINDLAY – AUSSIE HEAVY DUTY TRUCK MAN© • These days with the generational changes in the truck importation and distribution industry in Australia, the name Jim Findlay wouldn’t be rolling off the tongues of those currently involved. Nonetheless, anyone with more than a passing interest in the Australian transportation scene during the second half of the twentieth century would certainly remember the contribution that he made. Considering the strong involvement that Jim had with the truck industry for most of his working life, it is very likely that even some of his closest associates would be hard pressed to have any knowledge of his early life and would be very surprised at how different those two parts were.

AFletcher &Co. Ltd – Part 9 • Tony Lawrence continues his story

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The rise of the powerful • It’s only a matter of time before an 800hp truck is made available in Europe, and the last 40 years have seen a steady rise in the horsepower stakes…

Dutch past masters • Steve Holes is something of a serial collector of old DAFs, and now has five dating from 1980 onwards, with a 2800, 3300, 95.350, XF95.430 and an XF530 to show

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