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Minister Peter Bottomley's Mani ...
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Nov 1987
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained...
Venture capital can give transport companies a completely new source of highly-...
Dec 1965
Documentation On Ticized By Tribunal...
L'AULTY submission of appeal docu ments, the first to be submitted under the new...
Jun 1916
Some Absent "royalists...
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Oct 1921
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May 1986
Ost Office Ditches Rail...
3ritish Rail is losing its 513 m a year Post Office parcontract to the PO's own ...
Mar 1945
Modern Suspension Systems In Theory And ...
By J. Pickles I N the preceding article, the salient features of suspension ...
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.
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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