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Attention To Detail…
History tells us the Volvo F7 had a very short production life, from 1979 to 1985, but in that brief period it achieved a lot. It’s one of those lorries which made British operators take note of Volvo, if they hadn’t already done so before. It was a
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Moovin’ On!
Years ago, there was lots of cities, towns and rural locations that held livestock markets. Some of these were specialist sales which dealt with specific animals, for example bulls, sheep, pigs etc. Others were regular weekly markets, and considered
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Mcgovern Collection To Be Sold
Following the sad passing of John McGovern earlier this year, the family have announced that a dispersal sale of the historic lorry collection is to take place on Saturday September 21. But first, the family plan for some of the collection to attend
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Back Numbers
February 2023 WW2 Scammell Pioneer Spanish Dodge Bedford CA Camper Morris Cowley Van March 2023 Seddon Mk5L Maltese Bedford J5 Mini Mailvan Spanish Dodge Load-lugging Landcrab Ergomatic Models April 2023 Ford D-Series Ford Cargo AEC Marshal Magirus D
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Red Wheel For A82
The Transport Trust has awarded a Red Wheel, designating a site of transport heritage importance, to the A82 route between Tyndrum and Glencoe. Opened in 1934, this is the main trunk link between the West Highlands and points south, and as such it wi
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Shap Memorial Run
Thanks to the good offices of The Long Haul Club and David Rimmer the 30th. Anniversary of the Shap Memorial was celebrated on Sunday April 14 by a substantial group of classic HGVs, writes Parry Davis. Frequently blocked by snow, the long climb up S
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Model Corner Morris Minor Lcv Van And Pick-up Models
So far, I’ve looked at specialist hand-built models of the Minor van and pickup, as well as mass-produced models by Corgi and Lledo. In this concluding part, I’ll review those made by other manufacturers. Lyndon Davies of Oxford Diecast had worked at
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Hit And Miss At Cheffins
Cheffins had a fabulous opening Vintage Collective on Friday April 19 with the literature and with three other major sections including the commercial vehicles on the following day when two million pounds was turned over overall. Sadly the main two c
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National Restoration Show, Nec Birmingham March 23-24
As usual, the National Restoration Show at Birmingham’s NEC, though primarily a classic car event, included some rather fine commercials; these days most of the major classic car clubs like to include at least one commercial variant. Then there are t
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Letters
Peter Davies’s interesting article about the Atkinson View-Line shows a photo and adds some remarks about the use by the vehicle by RTITB (Road Transport Industry Training Board as it was at the time). RTITB ran a mixed fleet of vehicles for the trai
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Erf Ec
Britain’s last surviving lorry manufacturer, namely ERF, did it’s best to stand up to overwhelming foreign competition back in 1993 even if the odds were against the company’s long term survival. We had already witnessed the demise of some of our big
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A Brief History Of AEC’s Marshal
The Marshal name was first used on a pre-WWII three-axle lorry (model 644) built for the military, which was phased out in 1941. Originally introduced in 1932, the production version had an open driver’s cab with a slight overhang and wood-metal body
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Impish Charm
The Rootes Group’s answer to the Mini, codename Apex, the Hillman Imp, was launched in 1963. The Coventry based manufacturer needed a new factory to assemble the newcar. The logical place to have built this might have been in Coventry, and Rootes did
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Over Water
The Saltash Ferry over the River Tamar (which forms the main border between Devon and Cornwall) seen here on October 23 1961, its final day of operation, at the Plymouth side of the river. There had been a ferry here since Norman times, but the const
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The British Commercial Vehicle Museum
The British Commercial Vehicle Museum in Leyland, Lancashire is considered by many to be the UK’s premier transport museum dedicated to commercial vehicles. It occupies one of the few surviving parts of the original Leyland Trucks factory, built in t
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Ahundred At The Hollies
Harry started driving in 1954 while in the RAF, and continued to do so until retirement at the age of 63. He drove for P&O Roadways on container work, and remembered making the trip from Cannock up to Aberdeen. “That took me 2½ days,” he said. As for
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Each month, ‘Classic & Vintage Commercials’ readers can enjoy a new selection of genuine period pictures of working vehicles in PD’s Archive. Whatever your favourite era might be, whether it’s the’sixties or the’nineties, at least some of the picture
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London Bridge In 1965
As is well-known, there have been numerous ‘London Bridges’ over the years, with the current one having opened in 1973. This, though, is its predecessor on the same site which dates from 1831 and famously, was sold and rebuilt in Arizona. The story t
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Rover Delivery
The date is, according to this photograph’s label, July 8 1976, and we’re outside the Rover factory at Solihull where a Guy Big J artic is about to take four of the very first Rover 3500 ‘SD1’ saloons to a dealership which almost certainly had custom
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Down By The Docks
Liverpool’s dock road is a location many old-time drivers will recall, as deliveries to and from here were, we understand, often fairly drawn-out due to delays getting loaded and unloaded. Anyway, this was the typically-busy scene along New Quay on w
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Carrying On
We welcome photos of older lorries (15 years and older) that are still in service for publication in this section. We can accept contributions by email - cvc.ed@kelsey.co.uk, or by post to The Editor, Classic & Vintage Commercials, PO Box 1243, SPALD
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50 Years On…
Yes – it’s half a century since Bedford moved up the weight scale by launching its TM heavyweight range which spanned gross weights from 15 to 42tons. Phase one, in 1974, saw the announcement of the 6V-71 Detroit Diesel powered models with the narrow
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