Featured Articles
Dec 1987
Ahead Of The Crowd...
We have been behind the wheel of MAN's 22.362 in advance of its UK launch and ...
Jan 1935
Has The Appeal Tribunal Exceeded Its ...
0 NE of the earliest decisions of the Appeal Tribunal, appointed under the Road ...
Feb 1918
For Drivers Mechanics & Foremen...
A PRIZE OF TEN SHILLINGS is awarded each week to the tender of the best letter...
Feb 1970
Stop Re-lining Luring The Season...
simple electro-magnetic braking device is enabled Shearings Pleasureways olidays...
May 1955
Weliworthy To Make Supercharger...
A WOBBLE -PLATE piston type PA supercharger has been designed and developed by ...
Nov 1934
An Ingenious Front-wheel-brake Assembly...
T HE name of the Clayton Dewandre Co., Ltd., appears in conjunction with that of...
May 2007
Liverpool Po H O...
promises to act p eel Ports Group (PPG), which runs the Port of Liverpool, is ...
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.
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