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 But Heritage Commercials is not just about old drivers – its strong historical content looks at the various vehicle manufacturers, while it keeps up to date with the current preservation scene with stories of beautifully restored vehicles of a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

WHAT’S IN A NAME

Heritage Commercials

JUST IN TIME • The bulk of the pictures you are about to see don’t at first glance look anything special. A wander round any haulage yard on a Saturday afternoon in the mid ‘80s would see a similar blend of vehicles shoehorned into all sorts of casual positions. But as Bob Tuck explains, this collection of Sunters motors seen in their Boroughbridge Road, Northallerton depot was probably the last of an era. As just over a year later, the long established road haulage business would end its days being absorbed into the newly formed Econofreight United. As a casualty of the retraction to the UK’s ultra-heavy haulage industry, ex Sunter staff members Roy Pickard and Peter Clemmet recall the end of that particular era

TOMMY WILLIAMS’ CLASSIC LORRY ROAD RUN • To celebrate his retirement from business, after 65 years as a coal merchant, Tommy Williams in his 83rd year had decided to mark the occasion with a classic lorry road run. Anne Bates gives us a run-down on the event

A GREAT FAMILY DAY OUT • Basingstoke Festival of Transport and Autojumble – Sunday 22nd August 2021

THE OLD TIMERS TRACTOR RALLY TAKE TWO!

VIVRE LA FRANCE • The restoration of a French transport icon, a Citroën H Series van, was completed almost exactly a month ago by Ken and Ray Walsh. The innovative front-wheel-drive, all-independent suspension, corrugated panelled, monocoque structure H Series was produced from 1947 to 1981. Ed Burrows records the story of the Walshes’ sixth restoration of a French-built vehicle, one of which, a Hotchkiss completed in the late 1990s, was their first-ever truck project

TOP KAT • Not content with generating all sorts of records in the decades it spent in production as a World-Wide favourite of a load shifter, the TK Bedford is now winning all sorts of new friends as it becomes a huge favorite with the preservation world. Bob Tuck has long been a big fan of this travelling treasure

GPO SPECIALISED VEHICLES PART TWO • In 1981, the Post Office had one of the biggest fleets of vehicles in the country with a combined total of 80,000 vehicles taking in both Post Office, Royal Mail and British Telecom vehicles. Mike and Julie Blenkinsop continue with part two of their look at some of the more specialist vehicles used

VEHICLE NAME: CODE BLUE the COLD WAR JEEP • Timothy Slawson, had a deep desire to own a military jeep, here he tells the story of his purchase and subsequent immaculate restoration

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JAGUAR CARS LTD ACQUIRED HENRY MEADOWS LTD IN 1965 • Peter Morrey gives us the second part to the story of how Jaguar Cars Ltd., acquired Henry Meadows Ltd after first acquiring Guy Motors Ltd.

FRANKIE’S BIG MACK • Frankie Wilson from Scotland has been a big fan of American lorries for as long as he can remember. Bob Weir went to meet him at a local truck stop near the M74 motorway

HAUL-WASTE FOR ALL WASTE’S DRY WASTE TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES FROM 1972 UNTIL 1999 • In 1972,...