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 But Heritage Commercials is not just about old drivers – its strong historical content looks at the various vehicle manufacturers, while it keeps up to date with the current preservation scene with stories of beautifully restored vehicles of a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

Camions extraordinaires • Until the semi-trailer tractors that came with 1960s ISO container revolution, France’s max gross commercials were bonneted three axle rigids. Operators were conservative and resistant to change. But as Ed Burrows relates, alongside bread-and-butter models, some French manufacturers indulged in daring originality

Coffee & Chrome at Chateau Impney • Copyright, Russ Harvey for one-off use (FOC) for Heritage Commercials

Another Staffordshire Hoard • Following on from my Staffordshire Hoard article in the December 2021 issue of Heritage Commercials, I thought I would take a second look at some further motors based in the county of Staffordshire.

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WEST END DEBUT • Joseph Lewis discovers the West End Garage (Bruton) Ltd, Somerset, which celebrated 85 years of trading in 2021

Kelsall closeups • Following our coverage last month, Ed Burrows takes a closer look at some of the heritage vehicles and their owners who, despite Putin’s War fuel prices, lined up with hundreds and hundreds of others at June’s superbly organised Kelsall Steam Rally

TYNE-TEES RUN 2022 • The revived annual Tyne Tees Commercial Vehicle Road Run held its 40th anniversary in perfect timing with the celebrations for the Queen’s Platinum, 70-year Reign, weekend (The run is always held on the first Sunday of June).

WOODHALL SPA 1940s WEEKEND 9-10 JULY, 2022

ATKINSON AND SCANIA DOWN UNDER • The following images of Atkinsons and Scanias have been sent in by Charles Murray, from Ballan, Victoria, in Australia. Charles takes up the story…

RENAULT G13 TURNTABLE LADDER TILT TEST • Many of our older readers may remember, when they were kids, looking through transport related books or articles where an author highlighted the double decker bus tilt test as it demonstrated the angles that a vehicle could aspire to, before falling over. Invariably it was usually a London Transport bus which was used to show rollover standards to ensure the safety of their passengers. The photographs would probably have been taken at the Aldenham Bus Workshops near Elstree in Hertfordshire; another testing centre was the ‘skid pan’ at the Chiswick Works.

NEW Restorations Q&A • Need advice or tips on restoring and running a heritage commercial? Help is at hand from our resident trouble-shooters

EVOLUTION OF AN ICON • The first new Scania 4 series saw two options for the popular V8, and then went on to be enhanced several times until its replacement in the mid-2010s

GREAT TO BE BACK! • As the pandemic fades into the history books, trucks shows are back in earnest. Gaydon...