As Classic & Vintage Commercials is a national magazine, we travel the length and breadth of the country to see, photograph, and report on commercial vehicles owned by enthusiasts. Indeed, the main cover feature in this issue, on Andrew Leonard’s 1973 AEC Mandator involved a 500 mile round trip and an overnight stay. Though given that our destination was Honiton in delightful Devon, it really wasn’t that great an ordeal…
Sometimes, however, lorries turn up closer to home, and that was certainly the case for the quartet being featured here which were, quite literally, just down the road and less than a mile from CVC’s editorial offices. What’s more, I stumbled across the collection almost by accident…
The Watts family have been fenland farmers based in Deeping St Nicholas since the 1800s. Nicholas Watts, the current custodian of the family’s farming interests, is a well-known and highly respected local character who is keen to preserve and promote local heritage. In 2006 he was awarded an MBE forfarming practices.
