Featured Articles
Dec 1959
New Or Used Which Is Cheaper...
I T is often contended that rates can be kept down by purchasing and employing ...
Feb 1952
A Case For Equal Competition...
From Brig.-Gen. Sir H. Osborne Maitre, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. MAY I have a little...
Mar 1927
A New Hand-operated Tipping Gear...
An Interesting System Employed on a Vehicle Built for Municipal Uses. A S IN ...
Nov 1927
Live-stock Carrying. By Road Motor...
HE time is not . far distant when no live-stock I_ will be driven any distance ...
Jan 1965
Price Ring On Tyres Alleged...
A FTER twice calling for tenders for a three-year contract to supply and ...
Mar 1924
Accessibility Of The Light Van Chassis...
The Importance of Arranging the Components so as to Facilitate Adjustments, ...
Jan 1994
Ideas In The Swiss Role...
by Bryan Jarvis • There was plenty of glitz at Geneva's bi-annual truck show ...
Commercial Motor Trends : Articles about heavy haulage
Welcome to the Commercial Motor Archive
We're currently in 'beta' so we'd appreciate your help in testing and improving the site.
COMMERCIAL MOTOR NEEDS YOU
We know this archive isn’t perfect at the moment. But we've got a team of experts to give us a hand - and you're one of them!
Over the past six months we’ve been scanning every page of Commercial Motor right back to 1905, nearly 400,000 pages of the magazine. We’ve then run an automatic text recognition process to 'suck' out the text and present that to the reader. This auto system isn’t perfect, of course, and it needs a bit of help.
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Also, you’ll notice there are a few issues of the magazine missing. These weren’t in the bound volumes and we can only assume no issue was published in those weeks for a variety of reasons. If you do have any of those missing issues – we’ll put a list out on Commercialmotor.com – please get in touch. We'll credit you for your help and there will be a prize or two on offer.
MORE IMPROVEMENTS
As we make the amends, we’ll also be improving the styling of the site as well, so you should see the site evolve as we go.
The Commercial Motor Archive is a mammoth project, but one we’re very excited about.
Thanks again for your help and for joining us on this journey.
Will Shiers
Editor
Commercial Motor