Featured Articles
Jul 1948
Fleei That Works On...
By L. J. COTTON, m.I.R.T.E. S YSTEM is not, as is sometimes believed, the ...
Feb 1953
Loading Hoist For Refuse Vehicles...
T HE usual method of collecting refuse on a house-to-house basis is to empty the...
Jul 1997
How Do I Resolve My Trailer Problem...
J am writing this letter in desperation to see whether your readers can answer a...
Feb 1960
No Standing In Large Buses...
NM double-decker with a capacity of I N 72 or more seats should be allowed to ...
Oct 1926
A Useful Small-capacity Cesspool Emptier...
A LTHOUGH in that branch of municipal administration which is concerned with ...
Dec 1949
R.h.e. Abstracts Traffic-mr. Nelson...
WHEN Mr. J. R. Henderson, a West VI' Hartlepool haulier, had his application to ...
Feb 2008
X-ray Marks The Spot...
International hauliers fear that the ban on the use of scanners at the Port of ...
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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