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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TERRIFIC TRADER • Austin & Arthur Ford's 6x4 Thames Trader is a remarkable survivor, having worked commercially right up to 1992. Now though, it's been given a full restoration and is stunning. Peter Simpson begins a two-part series telling the full story.

NEWS

PD's archive

MAN AND SAVIEM • Pt.2: Peter Davies looks at the latter years when the Saviem cab was used by MAN and others, but Saviem itself was no more.

Letters • YOUR VIEWS, COMMENTS AND RECOLLECTIONS...

CHICHESTER CONCRETE

CRUISE CONTROL • Leyland Cruisers were once ten a penny, but now they are a rare, but delightful, sight to see at shows. Sheffield-based H Askey has, however, a prime example flying the flag for the British manufacturer.

AWD – BEDFORD REBORN?

Carrying on

PRE-ROOTES HILLMAN • Though we tend to think of Hillman as the mass-market constituent of the Rootes Group, it had a life before, and produced some commercials.

CLASSIC AND VINTAGE COMMERCIALS SHOW, BRITISH MOTOR MUSEUM, JUNE 13-14

BRILLIANT BRESSINGHAM! • Peter Simpson reports on a rather special Father’s Day activity for dads living in and around Norfolk...

LINCOLNSHIRE FIRE AID 999

ERF KV

THOMAS ALLEN CARTAGE (AND TWO RON SMITHS) • Pt2: Mike Neale takes a further dive into the Thomas Allen Cartage archive and tells us a little about the father-and-son team responsible for the photos surviving.

EVENTS DIARY • This diary has been compiled using information supplied to Kelsey Media’s events diary partner Publishing-works. To get your event included in this listing, which is shared across all relevant titles within Kelsey Media, send details to Sue Fixter; sue@publishing-works.com

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