John Thomas HEAVER, coachbuilder nearby Durington England UK

1938 Bedford WTB with Heaver body

John Thomas Heaver

was a coachbuilder from Fulham in London who was drafted into the army in 1915 at Bulford Camp in Wiltshire. Demobbed from military service Heaver set himself up in business by 1920 at Bulford road nearby Durington.

1938 Leyland Tiger TS7T-Heaver

Heaver Limited was always a small coachbuilder. It was building on small Bedford or Leyland chassis during the thirty’s supplying both bus and coachbodies for many local oparators and some further a field as well.

1938 Leyland TS7Ds LT25, DUC901, and LT22, CYO194, alongside Regal MV2272 with Heaver body

The company moved into full front bodywork on frond engined chassis in the early fifties. It also build a large number of bodies for Guernsey in the mid fifties, many on albion Chassis but the buisiness closed and sold in 1958.

1939 Bedford WTB with a Heaver C25F body

1947-6-wheel-leyland-ts7t-from-1936-rebodied-by-heaver-cul804

1947-6-wheel-leyland-ts7t-from-1936-rebodied-by-heaver-cul804

1947-city-coach-commers-c7-lpu690-with-heaver-body

1947-commer-commando-with-perkins-p6-engine-and-heaver-b33f-body

1947-commer-q4-p6-engined heaver-lpu691

1947-heaver-fc35c-bodied-daimler-cvd6sd

1947-leyland-ps2-11-with-heaver-b39c-body

1951-daimler-lad380-was-a-cvd6sd-with-heaver-fc40c-body

1953-albion-heaver-b35f-ex-guernsey-motors-52

1954-albion-victor-heaver-b35f-60 body

1954-albion-victor-heaver-b35f bodywork

1955-albion-heaver-b35f-ex-guernsey-railway-36 © Traveller Homes

1955-albion-victor-ft39an-with-a-heaver-b35f body

1955-daimler-d650hs-freeline-with-a-heaver-c41c-body

1955-ex-guernsey-motors-albion-victor-heaver-b35f

1956-albion-heaver-b35f-ex-guernsey-motors-75 © Traveller Homes

1956-albion-victor-ft39an-with-heaver-b35f-body

1956-albion-victor-ft39ans-with-heaver-b35f-body

1956-albion-victor-heaver-b35f body

1957-albion-victor-heaver bodywork

1957-red-albion-victor-with-heaver-bodywork

That’s all I could find about Heaver coachbuilders.

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Buses + more COMMER 1905-1979 Luton England

Buses COMMER 1905-1979 Luton England(Trucks + Ambulances + Hearses)

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Bussen COMMER Avenger 1962

Commer bus reg EC 634 1909

1909 Widnes Commer covered top double decker

Bussen Commer around 1910 – 1915 Crosville

 

1912 One of the single deck Commers No5 or 6 Widnes

1913 Commer WP3 © kwmosgaard.dk

1913 Oxford bus museum 8-3-09 1913 Commer Charabanc

commer-bus-1914

1937 L Chrysler CA 1934 M Commer 14 seater bus 1937 R Chrysler 1928

Commer 1952 brochure

 

Commer Beetles 1963

Commer built in 1964 with Harrington B12 bodywork

Commer Camper Busje

Commer Camper

Commer Catalogue © slammedsixty

Commers Buses posing

Commer-Coaster-Dormobile-Conversion

Commer-bus- Olympic

 

Commer-1500-2500-Motor Manuel

Commer Bus White

 Commer FC .75 ton Van Hearse

Commer First World War ambulance

Commer Horse Ambulance – disc wheel type

 

1968 Commer FC Ambulance Bus 75T

1962-Commer-van ambulance Australia web

Warrnambool’s Commer Van Ambulance Australia 1962

Ambulance-Sluiskil NL Commer © Ron Doppegieter

Commer Ambulance Bus

LONDON AMBULANCE COMMER FITTERS

Ambulance Centre MID6 Branch Coventry Commer

Commer 1939

Classic Commer Ambulance at Manheim

Sloop Commer Ambulance

Commer WKV 2

1960 Commer Superpoise ambulance from Newcastle © Firearch

SARRMS Commer Commando used on SA Airways services

Commer Commando Crew Bus RAF commando 1947

Commer Avenger  1949

 

Commer Avenger 1, fitted with a Harrington C16F body 1950

Commer – Duple

Commer Avenger Passenger Model 32-35seat 1948

Commer BF Coach PFR727 1959

Commer Beadle WKJ787, a 1957 ex Demonstrater Beadle coach with 41 seat body

 

Commer Carrozados por Gerónimo Gnecco

 Commer Carrozados por Gerónimo Gnecco

Commer Commando Plaxton C30F seats 1946 – 1962

Commer-ad

Commer Avenger IV with Harrington Crusader C41F body 1962

Commer Griekenland

House Watlington Commer OFC489 John Bristow

Commer-bus © THL/Les Pivnic

 

Commer-bus © THL/Les Pivnic

Commer Walk Thru Bus

Commer TS3 Don Everall Tours VJW

Commer truck-based armoured car, 1950s

Commer Avenger built in 1952 with Plaxton Envoy bodywork

Commer Avenger bus, available with TS4 power in 1954

Commer Avenger IV built in 1959 with Duple Vega C41F bodywork

Commer Postbus

Commer Commandos, built in 1946-47 with Park Royal one and a half decker 20-seat coach bodies

Commer ACE Bus Australia

Commer Q4 (P6 engined)Heaver LPU691, believed to show one of only two single deckers still in City livery in 1955

Commer-Beadle Integral coach, TUK255, of 1957

Commer Leyland Barbara (1939) Malta

Van Hool Commer-Chassis 1946 NL

 Commer Plaxton Venturer

 Commer Commando with Perkins P6 engine and Heaver B33F body new in February 1948, one of a batch of 7 new in 1947

Commer Avenger TS3 with Duple Corinthian (Vega) C41F body of 1955

Commer Roadmaster Australia

 

Commer Superpoise

 

Commer bus in Cyprus

Commer-Beadle TS3 from 1955 with Beadle bodywork

1939 Commer Bus Valetta Malta

1946 Bussen Commer, formerly C5, KTW247, was new in 1946 Mulliner body

1949 Bussen Commer Avenger FO5727 with Plaxton C33F body of Matthews, Churchdown

Commer Avenger I built in 1950 with Plaxton C33F bodywork

Commer Q4 with a Scottish Aviation C33F body, new to Summers of Glasgow in 1950

Commer Avenger 1 1951

Commer Avenger I with a Saro C33F body had been new in 1951

Commer Avenger with Harrington C33F body new in 1951 to Nash of Ventnor

Commer Avenger NKN 650 1951

Commer Avenger 1953

Commer Avenger IV with Yeates C41F body, new to Moores in 1960

Commer Avenger XUF52 1960s

© Al Richardson Collection 004

Commer

Commer Coach

Commer Bus

Commer bus met zonnedak

CHW Commer Ambulance

Commer Ambu

Commer Brandweer Ambulance

Commer Bus of Fire Engine

Australian Commer Schoolbus © Petekane

COMMER Schoolbus © Ian N Lynas

That’s it