Featured Articles
Jul 1914
The Motor On The British Farm...
By Albert Wyles. The English farmer has for some years past, on the whole, ...
Mar 1957
70 Exhibits Prove Austin Adaptability...
C LAIMED to be the largest onemake exhibition of commercial vehicles ever to be ...
Jun 1986
Xercon Loses Its 0-licence...
• Bury-based Xercon Industries has lost its international operator's licence ...
Sep 2010
An Arrow Aimed At Business...
The Robin Hood spirit is alive in Nottingham as the council targets workplace ...
Aug 1976
This Deal Is Bad For Small Operators...
by Martin Watkins [ALL coach operators seem fly to lose out should British il do...
May 1922
Advertising Possibilities Of The Van...
Constantly Travelling Before the Eyes of the Public, a Van May Profitably be ...
Nov 1959
"stupid Rather Than Wicked...
A MAN who had been persuaded to change a 24-ton platform lorry for 74-tonner, on...
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.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
As you go through the pages of the archive, if you spot any glitches or gremlins please hit the “Noticed an error?” button and report the issue. Please don’t expect an immediate change to the error - we’re going to gather all the issues together and prioritise them, fixing the most pressing ones first.
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