Just reading this stuff on Commercial Motor magazine made me trawl from the depths a story that would be fitting here.
In 1966 I was still at school at the age of 14, I had a paper round and a keen interest in the lorries of the day so I regularly bought Commercial Motor for about a year. I would read and study the pictures over and over. I had the complete set of the 1966 editions, kept them for years ! Years later I was about to leave home and get married, I finally committed the old magazines to the dustbin.
Many ,many years later I rued the day I dumped them and often thought how interesting the reading would be now.
I attended the Commercial vehicle rally (when it was held at Crick Truck Stop) some 40 years after dumping the magazines. Looking around the stalls I spied the complete 1966 volumes, wonderfully bound together !! I paid the princely sum of £10 for them and won’t let them go again !!! God works in mysterious ways eh ?
