NOW INCORPORATING MAGAZINE! For his latest restoration, Parry Davis adopted a slightly different approach! In the Ergomatic cab’s anniversary year, Bob Weir tells the story of an interesting restoration. Our series of museum visits continues with a l

I cannot believe that this series has reached part 22 and, as we move to our new home within Classic & Vintage Commercials, I still have four to five more parts to go before I need to sort out more images for future issues. In this issue I have inclu

Dave Lee has just self-published, as a limited run, a comprehensive photographic record of Devon-based lorries and fleets from the 1970s onwards, kindly sent us a copy for review, and we have to say that we’re impressed. Titled, appropriately enough,

Paul ‘Griff’ Griffith has lived in Shropshire all his life and is a fitter by trade, having served his time with a local company in the 1960s. That soon changed though… “My father was a builder, so I ended up working with him” Griff explained. But wh

Following their successful inaugural event last year, Gary and Julie Woodrow (who also run the annual autumn show at Norwich, have once again arranged a Father’s Day event at Bressingham Museum near Diss over the weekend of June 15-16. As before, exh

The Classic & Vintage Commercials time machine’s first touch-down this month is in Cardiff’s Mill Lane Open Air market on June 25 1981, where the vehicle scene seems to be very much Ford-dominated. In front we have a 7.5tonne D-Series fridge lorry op

The Morris J2 and Austin 152 were launched in June 1956 as a van, pick-up and minibus, or in Austin-speak, “Omnivan”, “truck” and “coach.” They could also be ordered as a chassis cab for coach-built bodies to be added. The Morris J2 had a tall pear-s

Nowadays, few people aged under 50 will even recognise the name ‘Fine Fare.’ However, from the late 1950s right through to the mid-1970s, it was Britain’s third-largest supermarket chain after Sainsbury and Tesco, and its distinctive branding was a f

Garth was a fictitious Superhero that appeared in American comics but the real Superheroes were the drivers that put up with tough working conditions back in the 1970s! The likes of this Foden ‘S41’ twin-steer 32 tonner of M Elliott & Sons were quite

Ample interior headroom was provided by the View-Line cab, the external overall height being 9ft 10in (3m). In spite of the high floor line there was still 5ft 1in (1.6m) interior height – not quite up to the Renault Magnum’s 6ft 1in (1.87m) but cons

Variety, so it’s said, is ‘the spice of life’ and this month’s PD’s Archive aims to prove the point by including a wide variety of different makes and types from humble four-wheelers up to big heavy haulage outfits. As usual this selection of period

As has been widely reported, Donald Campbell’s Bluebird K7, the boat in which he set seven world water speed records between 1955 and 1967 and was killed while attempting to set an eighth, has now been returned to Coniston and is on display at the Ru

Having played on old scrap Bedford A and D types as a kid I always had it in my mind I would love to own a Bedford of my own. That particular aspiration is one that I’m now unlikely to fulfil. I have, however, owned a 1961 Bedford CA now for some yea

According to its labelling, this photo of The Green Market in Newcastle-upon-Tyne dates from “circa 1955.” It has, however, to be later, as the MBB registration carried by the Thompson’s Bedford S Type to the right was issued in June and July 1960, a

Come and join me as I arrive at Suddies (Sutherland’s) depot at Tullos Industrial Estate in Aberdeen. I’m in my Bedford TK 14 ton curtainsider and have received a bit of flack for taking so long to arrive from Coatbridge. The reason was that on the F

Back in December, we featured Phil Marshall’s fine restored 1966 Commer Maxiload on the front cover. As we finished our photoshoot, Phil asked photographer Martyn and I if we would be interested in taking a look at “my other lorries which are a bit y