NEARLY 200 historic commercial vehicles will take to the road early next month for the 20th annual Go Ahead Tees-Tyne Run.

Organised by the North-East area of the Historic Commercial Vehicle Society, the event attracts entrants from all around the country for the 50-mile run from Teesside Park, Stockton to Bents Park on the seafront at South Shields.

The first vehicle leaves Stockton at 9am on Sunday, June 2 and the others follow at half-minute intervals.

The first vehicles at Bents Park are expected to arrive from 11.30am and they will be on display until 5pm.

Admission to the park is free.

A wide variety of vehicles are entering the run, ranging from pick-ups to vans and lorries of all sizes, fire appliances and buses and coaches.

The oldest vehicle entered is a Daimler CJK 22 single deck coach, built in 1923 and the newest is an ERF B series tractor unit built in 1982.

As the event is being held over the jubilee weekend and the run is 50 miles long, a number of vehicles that are 50 years old this year are taking part.

They include a Jowett Bradford van from Middlesbrough, an Austin Champ from Sunderland and a Bedford OLBC drop-side lorry and Bedford K-type ten-seat bus from Darlington.