Featured Articles
Jan 1936
Call For Lower Tax On Farm Tractors...
At the. annual meeting of the central executive of the National Farmers Union ...
Jan 1912
Out And Home,--by " The Extractor...
AustrianDaimlers.—An Alphabetical Tire.— Several Business Changes.—He who ...
Jun 1966
Here Comes The Bogyman...
R ECRUITMENT from outside under the present Government has helped to build up—...
Jan 1982
How Many Transmission Ratios Are Best...
MANY truck buyers in the United States, especially fleet operators, have ...
Jun 1951
Operator Criticizes T.r.t.a. Policy...
A LTHOUOH 1 have been a regular reader of your I -1 journal for over 20 years, 1...
Aug 1924
The Crusade Against Inefficient Brakes...
Why Brakes on Heavy--Vehicles Sometimes Give Trouble and Fail on Emergency. The ...
Aug 1935
The Comparative Mee Ts Of Two-wheel And...
FOUR -WHEEL DRIVE Fl IR RIGID SIX-WHEELERS C . ONSIDERATIONS of weight, ...
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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