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 But Heritage Commercials is not just about old drivers – its strong historical content looks at the various vehicle manufacturers, while it keeps up to date with the current preservation scene with stories of beautifully restored vehicles of a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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D.F.D. Rhodes – Western Australian Miners • It would be fair to say that not only do we do things differently to Britain where we used to source most of our early trucks; they do things differently in the West compared to the East in Australia as well.

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The Recovery Position • Michael Marshall takes a look at recovery lorries from years gone by.

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Tommy Williams – Heart of Wales Classic Lorry Run • 20-21 May2023

A Fletcher & Co. Ltd Part 8 • Tony Lawrence continues his story

Shipshape, Basingstoke fashion • Thornycroft was the creation of one of Britain’s greatest engineers, yet its ultimate mould-breaking innovation did not appear for a century after the business started. Ed Burrows explores the history of the truck manufacturer that started life producing Thames motor launches and progressed to building the world’s fastest warships.

Spring Autojumble at Beaulieu 2023

The Humber Story – Part 1 • For the car enthusiasts out there, the name Humber will conjure up images of the Hawk, the Snipe and the Sceptre, but probably not an image of a tough 4 x 4 special military truck as Mike and Julie Blenkinsop explain.

Merton Vintage Show

Shillingstone stars • Gratitude to Mike Welch – Chairman

1923 Shelvoke &Drewry ‘SD Freighter’ Truck • Rosemary Earle and Maurice McGregor of Perth, WA, are the owners of a 1923 Shelvoke & Drewry ‘SD Freighter’ – this flat-bed Freighter was restored by them. Although a 1922 Freighter survives (restored by the Shelvoke & Drewry firm’s apprentices in the 1960s), it is believed this WA example is the oldest Freighter in existence in Australia.

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Five decades of DAF’s classic • It’s now 50 years since DAF’s iconic F241 cab appeared – as the 2800, and would go on to have a long life finally being phased out in the early 1990s

More to see at Newark • The AEC rally at Newark in late May had lots on show, and plenty of trucks which weren’t AECs!

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