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That was the year...
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CM was launched in 1905; for our centenary year we're bringing you stories from years gone by. This week we're back in 1908 and 1958.
1908
Legendary English cricketer Jack Hobbs kicked off the new year in style with his first ever test century against the Australians on their home patch:sadly it was not enough for us to win the Ashes. Speaking of the old enemy, King Edward VU met with Kaiser Wilhelm II to protest at the build up of the German navy...
Leyland Commercial Motarreveal ed that the Lancashire Steam Motor Co was no longer to be the trading name of Mr Henry Spun-ler Jnr; henceforth the enterprise would be known as Leyland Motors."The new title is certainly more comprehensive,-we said. Indeed!
Tax Road tax on commercials has become an old chestnut over the years. though back in 1908 it was more a tiny acorn and Commercial Motor was quick to get the boot in to the Chancellor's plans for increasing tax on trucks."England... will be increasingly handicapped in her exacting contest with foreign countries [if tax is increased],we said. Change the dateline and it could be 2005.
Show
"Largest and most valuable circulation" was Commercial Motor's message on its stand at the Olympia commercial vehicle show. Our report concentrated on vehicles powered by the internal combustion engine:the steam brigade clearly had its nose pushed out of jointyet "...we may very properly remind our readers that steam is far from dead." we wrote, with an arm twisted firmly up the editor's back!
1958
The main events of 1958 included the opening of the first stretch of motorway in the country around Preston, the foundation of the EEC and, of course, the Munich air disaster in which the Manchester United football team was decimated in a plane crash. Elvis Presley joined the army, women were allowed into the House of Lords for the first time and the first parking meters were introduced in London.
Costs
Commercial Motor started the new year with a survey of rising transport costs.The cost per mile of a rigid eight-wheeler had gone up by a staggering 81% since 1948. While rates,yes you've guessed ithad remained static or even fallen in some cases.
Brakes
ERF announced it would be fitting disc brakes to the front axle of its new 54G tipper. Also new from ERF for the forthcoming Earls Court show was a semi-forward control six-wheeler range.
Show -Earls Court reveals more novelty than any post-war international showwas our bold take on the 1958 commercial motor show, as we published what was our biggest issue to date. And for three bob operators could snap up "The Commercial Motor table of operating costs"— a bargain!
Also, in the same issue, a delivery vans piece read "Give us easier deliveries" with an illustration showing low mounted cabs by virtue of shifting the front axle back.The pictured vehicle looks rather like a refuse truck of today.