Classic & Vintage Commercials

Surrey-based Britaniacrest Recycling, and the Foss family who own it, are no strangers to lorry restoration. They’re no strangers to the pages of Classic & Vintage Commercials either, as we’ve featured their collection, and some of their past restora

There are some people who only like old stuff, branding today’s trucks as ‘modern rubbish’, while there are others who like lorries of all ages. It has to be remembered that the ‘classics’ seen here were all once brand new as indeed were all lorries

It has to be said that Bedford engineers lacked foresight when they designed the TK back in the late ‘fifties. They could have pulled off a real coup by being the first British manufacturer to specify a tilt cab but, instead, they opted for a fixed c

Growing up in the 1970 and 1980s, there were lots of unusual lorries that were sold only in Europe; names like Saurer, Berna, Büssing, Pegaso, Steyr and Unic to name just a few. For a young enthusiast, as I was in the early 1980s, I’d only see exampl

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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, Kelsey Media, The

The Flatlands Run saw around 50 vehicles take to the roads around Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire in late May with the easing of Covid restrictions. John Thomas was at the helm of the event, with a circular run of just over 100 miles starting a

A remedy for the pandemic – we may not be able to go to the rallies that we cherish, but within the 100 pages of the latest bookazine in the Vintage Roadscene Archive, we are able to go down Memory Lane and enjoy rallies past – some which you may rem

After the end of WW1, General Motors acquired a former aircraft factory on Edgware Road at The Hyde, between Hendon and Colindale in North London, for lorry assembly. The factory had previously been used by Airco, or The Aircraft Manufacturing Compan

The decision to renovate an original batch of 25 Series Ones caused great excitement in the Land Rover world, and with good reason. The plan was to restore the vehicles to their original specification, as part of JLR’s “Reborn” programme. Customers w

Last time, we left the rather sketchy life story of Arran Motors at the end of 1935. Its medium weight diesel powered lorries made in Welwyn Garden City had been introduced in the summer of 1934 and had enjoyed some limited success. However, competit

The subject of my look at oilfield exploration last time was Scammell and now we come to Thornycroft which followed a remarkably similar trajectory. It was quick to design colonial off-road six-wheelers in the 1920s and by the early 1930s was buildin

JCB’S ERFS With JCB’s famous fleet of demonstrator and inter-factory transport ERF EC11s being withdrawn from service, and the lorries due to be sold at the end of September, we take a final look at this unique operation, and talk to some of the peop