The Retro Commercial vehicle thread

[BLU]

Saw this still soldiering on doing its job lugging equipment around for a window cleaner. Looking pretty tidy to be fair!



Anyone else see any old commercial vehicles still being used by a business in everyday use? Pics would be awesome

[Mad Max]

I pass a red maestro van most days looking decidedly well used but soldiering on. No pics though sorry.

[MiniDan]

I see an old red Peugeot pickup most mornings on the way to M6 J7. Looks very tidy and looks to be used for work related stuffs.

[Jack-Cortina]

Their's an old Maestro van still being used round here by an MOT garage, has been round for year's

[bortaf]

still running at least 2 loads a month



and there's a Mk1 transit still hauling rubbish down the road i'll try and find a pic i have on PB somewhere

[MrSpeedy]

I use this on a daily basis



General running about and scavenging scrap pallets for firewood

[surprisingskoda]

^ brilliant.

My weekly workie is this:

[Anglia68]

This is my daily which we've had since new in '96.

[Seth]

I see this reasonably often chugging about locally in the hands of a painter/decorator type.

[Brian Damaged]

A quick trawl through my Flickr photostream unearthed these beauties.

Not many of these left now.

Lovely old TK. Horseboxes have a fairly easy life, but it's great to see older trucks still capable of earning a crust. The first wagon I ever drove was a TK, they really were years ahead of their time when first introduced in 1961.

Earlyish LT, no idea if it's a diesel or petrol. I started driving for a living in 1988 and the firm I worked for had two petrol-powered LT's. They were later ones with the 2.4 litre straight-six engines and whilst they were astonishingly fast, they used to average just 11mpg when driven like we did (basically flat-out everywhere).

Late-50s Bedford CA still earning its keep selling ice-creams in Coventry a couple of summers back.

Yes it's a museum piece as well, but this 1965 BMMO D9 double-decker is still used for carrying fare-paying passengers on weekends at the Birmingham Museum of Transport. The D9 was known as 'Birmingham's Routemaster' back in the 60's, and in many ways was much more technically-advanced than its London cousin.

Our old rally service barge. I still see quite a few Cargos about, despite the last examples now being 22 years old. This one was athe less-powerful 110bhp version, was a bit...erm...slow, so Dean replaced it with this one in 2010...

Considerably older, but the extra 400cc/20bhp made a BIG difference. Too old to be speed-limited, it would sit happily on the motorway at 65-70 with the trailer/rally car on the back. Unfortunately the dreaded tinworm had taken hold of the cab to a fair extent, so we now use an early Merc Sprinter as a barge, the Cargo was sold to some New Age Travellers I believe.

Late 70's Iron Fairy crane still in daily use at Newlyn Docks down in Cornwall.

[fred]

Theres quite a few round by me,
P100, Transit MK2's, Bedford flat back I see on occasion, and a Sherpa van which passes
my work at 3.30 in the morning every morning
I will have to get some pics of em

[mfrv1]

There's an old-style sweet shop around Reading which uses a Morris Minor van as a runaround/promo vehicle.

Also saw an old Bedford ice cream van being used to sell coffee near the ExCel centre in London last week.

[gary1998]

Feb 23, 2013 12:57:35 GMT MrSpeedy said:

I use this on a daily basis



General running about and scavenging scrap pallets for firewood

how cool is that love it

[fredje8v]

This is what i use for my daily ;D
Hope this is retro enough
It's not used for business but i do use it to haul junk around ;D

[generally01]

I saw this when out and about today;


Mk1 tranny by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr

[jules1200]

That Bedford TK brought the memories back. I was a commercial mechanic for 20 odd years. The first few years of that for the NCB & we had loads of them. No tilt cab, head gasket nightmare, nice back ache job!

[sheffieldcortinacentre]

typical gm should've got proper lorries with tilt cabs hmmmmm?? i know FORD D series.

[jules1200]

I put a crank in this in about 1984 ish. Just came across it on google, Detroit Diesel V8, 2 stroke, proper screamers they were, used to sound awesome.

[Brian Damaged]

Late 50's Chev Apache spotted in a Vegas sidestreet in 2007.

[sutty2006]

Mar 26, 2013 19:28:29 GMT jules1200 said:

I put a crank in this in about 1984 ish. Just came across it on google, Detroit Diesel V8, 2 stroke, proper screamers they were, used to sound awesome.

Now that..... I like...... a lot!!! ;D