Classic Truck

Classic Truck is the definitive celebration of classic and vintage lorries, trucks and vans. The historical content includes the entire spectrum of vehicle manufacturers and covers the current preservation scene, featuring meticulously maintained and restored vehicles. The magazine regularly features light commercial vans, buses and coaches, fire engines and military vehicles as well as covering related events held across the year.

The final countdown!

Classic Truck

Councils’ commercial waste transportation vehicles of the 1990s • In the 1990s, councils looked to earn an additional income by offering commercial waste collection services to industry and commerce. This was in an era when Compulsive Competitive Tendering (CCT) Regulations had been introduced and, therefore, councils wanted to offer like for like commercial waste collection services to those offered by the private sector.

VOLVO F89 • If you find yourself in the very enviable position in life where you are the owner of three fine examples of some of the most iconic, well thought of, classic trucks that in their day each represented the pinnacle of European long distance haulage what do you do next?

HEARTFELT THANKS

Classic Commercials from MG Rover… (Part 2) • … Two owners from Chard, have quite a collection of survivors between them!

1960 STANDARD 10 PICK-UP RESTORATION • Nine weeks to fully restore a 1960 Standard 10 pick-up that to the vast majority of people would have been way beyond their capability and would have left it well alone.

MAMMOTH MAJOR Mk III • When chief engineer John Rackham designed AECs Mammoth 667 four-wheeler and the Mammoth 668 six-wheeler he set in motion the process that would eventually lead to the Mk lll of the type. The Mammoth Major would inject new life into a company and product line that had become somewhat moribund over the years and injected new life into the factory as orders for the new vehicle began to come in.

A GLIMPSE INTO THE HISTORY OF A SUCCESSFUL MIDLANDS TRANSPORT COMPANY H.B. EVERTON LTD of DROITWICH SPA • The name of Everton had been synonymous with transport many years before Mr. H.B. Everton decided to have a go ‘on his own’ way back almost 100years ago in 1928.

65th Carrington Rally 24-25 May 2026

Another dollop of Devon Cream A further look at transport fleets from Devon • As I stated in the previous helping of ‘Devon Cream’ in Classic Truck, you can never have enough of a good thing, so here is a further helping of Devon Cream which I hope you will enjoy, covering a few other firms and undertakings as we take another look at lorries from days past in that delightful county.

Pacific M26 Dragon Wagon Part 2 • Mike and Julie Blenkinsop continue the story of the Pacific M26 tank recovery tractor.

LORRY GATHERING • Lodge Farm Café, Holbeach – 18 April

J4 COMMERCIAL VAN AT 66 • With marketing such as ‘the more for less van’ it was easy to identify the target market that BMC had in mind for their J4 commercial van when it was launched at the 1960 Commercial Motor Show. Cheap, cheerful, efficient and with few, if any, of the competitors bells and whistles. What the J4 was, was essentially a practical van at an affordable price.

Wessex Truck Gathering Foundation • 150 trucks assembled for the 2026 Wessex Truck Gathering at Frome Livestock Market, Standerwick, Somerset on Saturday 28 March, writes Joseph Lewis.

REMEMBERING TROJAN • If ever there was a company with a can do attitude it was Trojan. This little company from its inception in 1913 to its closure, dabbled in virtually everything with an engine from tracked vehicles for Army use, passenger cars, buses, boats, trucks, vans and even for an exciting year running a Formula One race team. It all started in Croydon.

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