06 Dodge around
Built but thanks to the efforts of Dennis Royle and an eight-year-old Josh Buckley, this 1936 Kew Dodge RTAF has one big story to tell with a very happy ending.
12 News
What’s been happening in the world of classic commercials.
8 Twenty minutes to destruction
Looking at the stunning tanker as owner John Shelton carefully drove it out of his workshop, we found it hard to believe that this superb vehicle had escaped complete destruction by a matter of some 20 minutes. Alan Barnes tells the story.
24 Export or die
That was the threat exhorted by the government in the early post Second World War years. Arthur Ingram trawls the archives to see how UK firms took up the fight.
28 Readers’ letters
Four pages of your questions, memories and observations.
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34 Steve Bingham, Vintage specialist – part 2
In last month’s issue of Heritage Commercials, Steve Bingham detailed the work on his first commercial vehicle restoration, and the story now continues with the rebuilding of his second lorry and the expansion of his vintage restoration business.
40 Spot the difference
The LAD cab was fitted to Leyland, Albion and Dodge lorries, but were they all the same? Dave Bowers went to meet Maurice Fearn, who owns an example of each, to take a look.
44 Time warp T
If you thought the latest addition to Dave Weedon’s fantastic collection of period heavy haulers was crying out for a total refurbishment, then Bob Tuck reckons you should think again. To him, in its present guise, it’s simply the finest slice of American/Welsh transport history you could wish to see – or even hear.
52 On location
This month Gyles Carpenter reports from the Woodhead Run held on September 30, 2012.
54 Three wheels on my wagon
Dean Reader tells the story of a very rare lightweight – the eccentrically British Reliant Regal MkVI van.
58 From our archives
This month we feature extracts from the Kew Dodge Normal Control Series brochure for 1960. Did you have anything to do with these lorries?
62 Wheels and wings
Delivering to airports is all in a day’s work for many drivers. Here’s a selection of images from times past.
68 Company history
For the best part of a century the firm of Edwin H Bradley & Sons was a prominent builder and quarry owner in the Swindon area. Adrian Cypher tells the story.
72 An Irish Ford
Every now and again a vehicle is fully restored and its working history is known, yet little can be found on the particular vehicle model history apart from it being produced in Canada and assembled at the Ford factory in Cork. Gina Harvey and owner Paul Fynes discuss the family’s 1947 Ford V8 1½-ton truck.
76 Your carriage awaits…
Laying to rest preconceived ideas about vehicles available to take us to our final resting place, Jo Roberts takes a look at some unusual alternatives.
80 Transport collection
The Grampian Transport Museum at Alford has one of the finest collections of motoring memorabilia in the whole of Scotland. Bob Weir drove up to Aberdeenshire for a real treat.
84 The forgotten war
Using the memoirs of one who was there, military historian Richard Pullen looks back at a seldom known part of the First World War – the fight for East Africa.
86 Model world
Top model lorry maker Alan Fixter brings us some more of his fantastic creations.
87 HC Marketplace
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04 Simply the best
John Thomas and his team have been involved in something like 18 different restoration projects but the fabulous job they’ve made of the 1975 Volvo F88-290 OBT 419P means that John himself reckons it’s the best job they’ve ever done. Bob Tuck gets the chance to ride and drive this iconic Swedish head turner and it’s an experience he’ll never forget.
12 Turbocharged trunker
The DAF 2800 was the world’s first lorry with both turbocharging and intercooling and became a firm favourite with UK haulage fleets for many years. Mark Gredzinski looks at its heyday.
18 Wandering Star
Western Star used to be US-owned, with its factory in Canada. Then it was owned by Volvo, then by its Australian distributor (at which point ERF was acquired by Western Star). Now it’s under Mercedes-owned Freightliner’s wing, and the trucks are now built in Portland, Oregon. Ed Burrows tells the story of a truck that is as tough as they come which has proved strong enough to endure pass-the-parcel changes of ownership more convoluted than anything you could possibly make up.
26 Terrific trio
Dave Bowers travels to Rochdale to see a superb trio of ERF classics.
30 Friends reunited
On one of his regular photographic lorry ‘hunting’ expeditions to the ‘wilds’ of northern England and the Scottish Borders, Gyles Carpenter recently took the opportunity to drop in on Allan Carruthers to see the latest additions to the growing fleet of classic lorries. The opportunity was also taken to reunite Allan’s latest Scania with it’s first driver, Fred Brown.
