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The business of bus recovery

Commercials CVC Team -
Mike and Julie Blenkinsop take a nostalgic look at the business of bus recovery and the inventive ways operators have tackled it. During the mid-twentieth...

Bus company breakdown trucks

Commercials CVC Team -
Dudley Rhodes offers a selection of photos featuring bus company breakdown trucks, many of which were themselves converted, classic buses. In the past, most bus...

Preserved recovery trucks

Commercials CVC Team -
Retaining recovery vehicles has prolonged the life of many lorries, as Dudley Rhodes' preserved recovery truck images demonstrate. A second life as a breakdown truck has...

Vanished lorries of the 1980s

Commercials CVC Team -
In a nostalgic look at the commercial vehicle scene, Dick Furniss recalls some of the notable but now vanished lorries of the 1980s. I first...

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The Oshkosh M1070 Series

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Newly-published by Kelsey Publishing, the fifth in the Military...

The Diamond T tank transporter

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This is the story of Britain’s second-generation tank transporter,...

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Classic vans selling well

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We report from the recent Anglia Car Auctions sale...

Plant & Machinery

Morrison Electricar GM 60cwt Coal Delivery Lorry

Commercials
Mike Neale recounts the story of Ipswich Transport Museum’s...

A 1971 Atkinson Borderer still working hard in Dorset

Commercials
Joseph Lewis discovers, as a birthday surprise, a busy...

A unique AEC Mandator saved from oblivion

Commercials
AEC wasn't considered a ‘heavy haulage’ specialist, but that...

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