Featured Articles
May 1924
A Chassis With Two Gearboxes...
Details of the New 2f-ton. Model 50 Garford which has an Auxiliary Gearbox ...
Jun 1924
The Varied Uses Of Concrete...
How Concrete Can be Employed For Private Roads and Farm Buildings. Construction ...
Nov 1942
Operators' Training Schools For Drivers...
E STABLISIIMENT of area schools for the training of drivers, especially those ...
Nov 1990
Ec Ministers Dither On Drawbars...
• Europe ' s transport minis ters were this week trying to hammer - out a ...
Jul 1978
W Stamp Of Approva...
by Brian Chalmers-Hunt JNRAY CARRIERS have ten in business for five ;ars; they ...
Jul 1990
Bus Smoke Is Bad News...
• Exhaust pollution from buses is a major cause of public concern — and is ...
Sep 1981
It Can't Happen To You...
Maybe it already has! Hi-jacks, break-ins, jump-ups — no matter what it's ...
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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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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