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May 1974
Giving The Driver A Quiet...
'office' by Graham Montgomerie Cabs can be designed to be quiet — or they can...
Oct 2003
Up And Coming Law With The Ha...
Future legislation ADR/RID harmonisation: The Health and Safety Commission has ...
Mar 1913
What Users Tell Uj Interview 3...
Very Low Mileage Pays with a North= Country Grocer's Motorvan. It may be ...
Apr 1908
Class Ii — The "insulated Unit" Type...
The only example of this interesting class, which had materialised at the recent...
Mar 1915
Our Despatches From The Front (no. 29...
Skilled Men as Infantry or Motor Drivers and Mechanics? More About the ...
Mar 1955
Men In The News...
MR. EDWIN WF-ST has been reappointed chairman of Leeds Sub-area of the Road ...
Aug 1947
News Of The Week...
RIG MOVE IN LONDON STAGGERING A GREEMENT has been reached between the City of ...
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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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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