Editors Intro
Comment - October 2010
2 September 2010
I got an email the other day from Alan Barnes reminding me that this issue will be number 250! I must admit that since HC has gone up from 92 to 132 pages I’ve been so busy it had slipped my mind. So I decided to go down into the ‘vaults’ to try to dig out an early copy, so I could see what things were like back then.
Welcome... Classic Truck - October 2010
2 September 2010.
Welcome to the first ‘slightly tweaked’ Classic Truck. After speaking to lots of you, we’ll now be starting this section at 1970 and working up into the mid-1990s. As many of you said, the late 1960s/early 1970s seems to mark the start of the modern road haulage industry in Britain and so it makes a good cut-off point.
Comment - September 2010
5 August 2010.
During the last few months there’s been quite a bit of discussion in HC regarding the demise of the British lorry manufacturing industry.
Welcome... Classic Truck
5 August 2010.
As I’ve said in my previous Classic Truck comments, we’ve received quite a bit of feedback about the type of things you’d like to see covered in this section. There’s one thing that loads of people have said we should change which they felt would make things even better. And that is the cut-off date where HC finishes and Classic Truck starts.
Comment - August 2010
1 July 2010.
A few months ago I used my comment page to ask what your favourite lorry was, together with what you thought was your worst. I’m pleased to say we had loads of response to this request and I can now reveal that the ‘winner’ is the Leyland Super Comet.
Welcome...
1 July 2010.
I’ll start this month by saying a big thank you to all of you who emailed, wrote and phoned in to say how much you enjoyed the first Classic Truck. I’m so pleased we weren’t wasting our time! In fact we’ve had so much good feedback it’s almost embarrassing – let’s just hope we haven’t peaked too soon!
Comment - July 2010
3 June 2010.
Welcome to a rather special issue of Heritage Commercials. Special in that it contains the first of an exciting new section called ‘Classic Truck’. Before you think that this means HC will be unrecognisable from now on, please let me explain what we’ve done.
Welcome...
3 June 2010.
...to the first of a completely new regular section in Heritage Commercials called Classic Truck. In effect this is a ‘magazine within a magazine’ and as I said in my HC comment, we will be concentrating on ‘emerging classics’ and the world of commercial road transport from 1980 up to the mid-1990s, although as I also said in HC, these dates aren’t set in stone.
Comment - June 2010
6 May 2010.
For me, one of the highlights of March this year was the Classic Commercial Vehicle Enthusiast's Show.
Comment - May 2010
29 March 2010.
In mid-March, I had a job to do for HC down in the Midlands, so I timed it so that on the way back I could spend a few hours at one of my favourite events – the International Historic Motorsport Show ‘race retro’.
Current Issue: October 2010
250th issue!
Golden wonder!
Leyland's Gas Turbine prototype
Company history
Lionel Pike Ltd
Archive album
Guinness lorry collection
Win
Teng toolkit worth almost £6000
Plus... Citroen Kégresse... Bedford JO... Commer QX... Ford D Series... Austin K4... Hillman Imp vans...
Incorporating CLASSIC TRUCK
Limited edition!
Len janes’ eastern region erf 'a' series
Plus... Foden 4000 series... Leyland Marathon... Belgium's specialist maker MOL...
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: November 2010 issue, No 251. On sale 7th October 2010