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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Classic & Vintage Commercials

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Parry’s PENNY PINCHER • Parry Davis’s latest restoration replicates a lorry run by a firm taken over by the iconic firm his ancestors ran. However, in true Davis Brothers style the job’s been done on a budget and making maximum use of stuff he already had in stock. Peter Simpson tells the story.

JOHN WEAVER 1938-2024

NEW IN AT KEV DENNIS’S

BEAULIEU NEED BOX BITS

WRESTLING IN THE FENS!

THE BOOK OF BRS

ENFIELD PAGEANT OF MOTORING 2024

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ERF EC RANGE • Pt2: Peter Davies concludes the story of this highly successful range of British heavyweights…

ARCHIVE SPECIAL 60 YEARS OF THE ERGOMATIC

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A STASH OF SPECIAL STUFF! • A unique collection of lorry parts has come to light in East Anglia, and Classic & Vintage Commercials was given exclusive access to photograph what there is, and what’s available.

SUPER SCANIA • Mark Dale has recently completed a stunning restoration of a 1989 Scania 143M that his father drove when it was new. David Reed tells the story.

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HEAVEN ON ERF!

BACK WITH ABANG! • Anew start and a partly-new route for 2024 for the HCVS London to Brighton run. Mike Neale reports.

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ELECTRIC coal lorry! • The Ipswich Transport Museum’s 1951 Morrison Electricar GM 60cwt Coal Delivery Lorry is thought to be the only survivor in full working order. Mike Neale tells the story of its renovation.

MODEL CORNER FORD/FORDSON BBE AND 7V MODELS • This month, Mike Neale’s look at shelf-sized Fords includes some old and collectable models as well as those made more recently.

VINTAGE ROADSCENE

KENT AND SUSSEX • Pt23: Les Freathy continues his look at some of the lorries operated in the Garden of England over the years…

PAPWORTH COACHWORKS • Cambridgeshire-based Papworth Industries were one of Britain’s leading commercial vehicle bodybuilders, a preferred supplier to the public sector and a firm whose reputation for quality that was second to none. Using a stash of photographs that were rescued from skips when the business finally closed, we begin a series telling the story of this unique business and the vehicles it produced.

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