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.

Classic & Vintage Commercials

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MERCEDES MAGNIFICENT • Russell Oliver has spent his entire life around lorries and road haulage, and his restoration of a one-owner 1984 Mercedes-Benz 1617 is nothing short of amazing! Peter Simpson tells the story.

NO CHANGE TO HISTORIC VED • If you have News story, e-mail cvc.ed@kelsey.co.uk or write to The Editer, Classic and Vintage Commercials, PO Box 1243, Spalding PE11 9HE

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2026 EVENTS

NEC CLASSIC MOTOR SHOW, NOVEMBER 2025 • A big show and big numbers attending. Mike Neale reports…

AUCTION RESULTS

PD’S archive

SCANIA LB110, 111, 140 & 141 • Pt2: More power, and improved engine reliability. Peter Davies concludes his in-depth look at this game-changing range.

COMMER CLASSIC • Following last month’s piece on Robert Wakefield’s 22-year-old working MAN, Peter Simpson looks around his preserved TS3-engined tipper, and finds some hidden treasure in the shed…

Letters • YOUR VIEWS, COMMENTS AND RECOLLECTIONS…

NEW YEAR SALE • Discover your new favourite magazine in 2026! We have something for everyone!

NOVEL NODDY • The BRS VA ‘Noddy’ van, with its unique function-over-style bodywork, was once seen everywhere, especially when there were lots of christmas parcels to deliver. Few now remain, but Mike Neale has tracked down a rare survivor.

BRITISH BREED

NEW YEAR SALE

DEVON DELIGHT • Retired panel-beater and former stock-car racer Jeff Olding spent three years restoring this fabulous fifties Austin from near scrap condition. Peter Simpson tells the story.

NEWARK VINTAGE TRACTOR & HERITAGE SHOW • Peter Simpson dropped in on a tractor event which is now attracting strong support from the local lorry fraternity, and which also hosts many vehicles which aren’t often seen elsewhere.

CHESTER-LE-STREET STEAM AND VINTAGE RALLY • David Reed headed for the north-east where steam and lorries come together to present a superb event…

COAST TO COAST • After a one-year break, and with a new two-day route and format, the Somerset & Devon run makes a welcome return. David Reed was there…

ATKINSONS GATHER AT SANDTOFT • Classic Atkinsons were joined by several other makes at the Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum. David Reed reports.

Miniature Mechanical Horses • Mike Neale begins a two-part look at some even smaller small Scammells.

DIRTY DARTFORD

PAPWORTH POSTAL • Our penultimate delve into the Papworth Coachworks archive that Alan Robinson rescued from a skip, featuring some more of the firm’s work for the General Post Office and its successors

Next month • COMING UP IN THE FEBRUARY 2026 ISSUE - OUT FRIDAY JANUARY 23

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