Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2023 i Classic & Vintage Commercials

How do you define a proper restoration? Some believe that the only real way to restore a vehicle is to take it back to its original specification in every respect; original chassis layout, original body-style and the livery of the first owner/operator. Others, however, take a slightly different view and will be happy to see a vehicle in one of its later liveries/guises. This is often more appropriate if a vehicle has had a major modification, such as added or deleted axles, changed body style and so on. However, many people, including the owners of some of the largest and bestknown collections in the country, choose instead to present a completed restoration in their own fleet or house livery of the period. In other words, as a recreation of a…

Tom Karen, who has been described as “the man who designed the 1970s” and who was responsible for the Leyland T45 and Seddon Atkinson 200-400 cabs, and the redesign of the LDV 200 and 400 into Pilot and Convoy form, passed away on December 31 2022, aged 96. Away rom commercial vehicles, Tom designed many other icons, including the Reliant Scimitar, Reliant Robin, Bond Bug and, perhaps most familiar of all, the Raleigh Chopper bicycle. He also styled radios, white goods and Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder for the Star Wars films. Tom was born in Vienna, to a Jewish father and catholic mother. The family were able to escape Nazi persecution, and arrived in London in 1942. After the war, Tom studied aeronautical engineering at Loughborough College. He joined the Ford…

As this issue went to press, the Historic Commercial Vehicle Society announced that the 2023 London to Brighton Run has been cancelled. In a statement, the HCVS said: “It is with great regret that the Trustees and Brighton Run Organisation Team have had to cancel our event for 2023. “Due to the Coronation, we had to move the date to May 14, and this meant that some suppliers and volunteers could not attend, and another event on Brighton Beach would be pulling down on that Sunday morning. We were also clashing with other events. “Also not resolved was finding a new Run start outside the London LEZ (soon ULEZ) to avoid lorry permits for some vehicles being required. However, work is progressing on that front and we are hopeful for…

To request your NEW Sealey hand tools brochure, call 01284 757500 Send your letters to: Classic and Vintage Commercials, PO Box 1243, Spalding PE11 9HE or e-mail: cvc.ed@kelsey.co.uk KAY’S NOT RAY’S Love the magazine and especially Peter Davies recent series on the Scania 2 and 3 series. Just to correct him on one photo. The 142M tractor unit, shown with a bulk tipper at the bottom of page 18 of the December 2022 issue, is Kay’s 142 not Ray’s. It belonged to Kay Phillips of Market Drayton whom I met in 1991. I have enclosed photos of Kay and me at her home and of her 142 at Peterborough Truckfest. She also owned the blue Globetrotter. I also have my father’s Scania P82M restored at home. My father bought it…

www.cvcmag.co.uk CLASSIC & VINTAGE COMMERCIALS Kelsey Media 5 Yalding Hill Downs Court Yalding ME18 6AL Tel: 01959 541444 EDITORIAL Editor: Peter Simpson, Station House Publishing Ltd Editorial Postal Address: Classic & Vintage Commercials, PO Box 1243, SPALDING, PE11 9HE. Email cvc.ed@kelsey.co.uk Technical consultant: Peter Davies Editorial Assistant: Katie Simpson Editorial Admin Manager: Sarah Lott ART: ATG Media ADVERTISEMENT SALES Russell Bedford – 01732 445328 Russell.bedford@talkmediasales.co.uk Production Supervisor: Elsa Deakin Talk Media Sales Production Assistant www.talkmediasales.co.uk DL: 01732 447534 ML: 01732 445325 MANAGEMENT Managing Director: Kevin McCormick Publisher: Gareth Beesley Retail Director: Steve Brown Audience Development Manager: Andy Cotton Brand Marketing Manager: Kate Chamberlain Head of Events: Kat Chappell Print Production Manager: Kelly Orriss Subscription Marketing Manager – Debra Hagger Subscription Marketing Executive – Bronwyn Southren SUBSCRIPTIONS 12 issues of Classic…

This year’s Spring Tractor World and Classic Commercial show – the event which many Midlands, South West and Welsh border enthusiasts see as the start of the show season – takes place over the weekend of March 11-12. Though the date is slightly different, the venue is the same – the Three Counties Showground, Malvern, Worcs WR13 6NW. Though some commercials attend both days, the main commercial vehicle attendance is on the Sunday, and for Sunday-only attendance, commercial vehicles don’t need to book; just turn up on the day before 9.30am –a cut-off needed for health and safety reasons – and you’ll get in – free! For trade bookings and both-day commercial vehicle attendance go to www.tractorworldshow.co.uk – though trade bookings need to be made before February 19. Advance tickets…

The South Lincolnshire-based Prentice family have been involved with lorries for many, many years, possibly since pre-war times in fact. These days the family run a recycling business collecting waste from local businesses, but in the past have also been involved in wholesale distribution and breakdown recovery work. We’ll come back to all that later though; our hosts for this visit were Edward Prentice aged 44, his other half Annie, and their two sons Ennett aged 10 and Leyland who is 8. All four are avid lorry enthusiasts, and the 1939 Pioneer is their second operational Scammell; they’ve owned a 1950 Explorer for some time. Pioneer Project The Pioneer was bought just over two years ago as a sort-of lockdown project, but also as a lorry which once finished Annie…

AEC SOCIETY Website aecsociety.com, membership secretary Howard Berry, 7 Donaldson Drive, Cheswardine, Shropshire TF9 2NY, e-mail membership@aecsociety.com THE ALBION CLUB Website www.albionclub.org.uk, address 7 John Street, Biggar, Lanarkshire , ML12 6AX, telephone 01899 220708. staffed part-time, e-mail info@albionclub.org.uk ATKINSON, SEDDON AND SEDDON ATKINSON LORRY FORUM – http://seddonatkinsonclub.proboards. com/index.cgi AYRSHIRE VINTAGE COMMERCIAL VEHICLE GROUP AVCVG President:-Ross Rae. Email:-rothsaybay44@gmail.com Telephone number 07815573926 BEDFORD OWNERS’ AND ENTHUSIASTS’ CLUB Christine Thomas (club secretary) 07745 873491, before 8pm e-mail detroitlady123@gmail.com CAITLIN HOUSE TRANSPORT PROJECT Contact Malcolm Kirk, 6 Heol Mwyrdy, Yorkdale, Beddau, Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, tel 01443 204472, e-mail malcolmkirk@sky.com CLASSIC ATKINSON, SEDDON AND SEDDON ATKINSON CLUB Membership secretary Tony Henwood, 2 Oak Thatch, Park Road, Combs, Stowmarket, Suffolk IP14 2JW (01449 675293), magazine editor is Richard Grey, 6 The Toppings, Bredbury, Stockport SK6 1EJ…

Back in our July 2021 issue, we reported on the rare Morris LD SWB pantechnicon that East Sussex removal specialist Mark Radcliffe discovered in a Dorset scrapyard and was restoring. Since then, progress has been ongoing, and two additional classic vehicles have joined the fleet – a classic collection is coming together. Anyway, at that time the history of the 1963 Morris was something of a mystery, other than that it carried the faded livery of a Ringwood house furnisher, upholsterer and carpet specialist. However, after the van appeared in the magazine, we had a letter from Keith who lived just four miles from where the van was discovered and knew all about it. That was because he had bought it from the Ringwood firm in 1973, and gone on to…

Scammell? AEC? Leyland? I can imagine that some younger folk might be wondering what these are. You’ve got to be pushing 40 to remember seeing some of these longlost makes at work. It’s just as well we have an archive of period photographs to remind us of what was about in the dim and distant past. Okay, you might see such vehicles at rallies and shows but it’s much nicer to see them in their working guise – warts and all!…