-laIf a million cvs rnd 4,000CMs later
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IT IS AN excellent and nstructive pennyworth. The interprise should do much to orward the interests of that lass of horseless vehicles to vhich it is devoted." This was he Morning Post's verdict on he first edition of The :ommercial Motor, which ippeared on March 16, 1905. .00king back now, on the day hat the 4,000th CM comes out, I's plain to see that both ndustry and paper have come a (mg way. Henry Norman, MP, or one, would not have been ;urprised. After the first issue, at time when there were 3,158 ecorded cvs, he said: "It has ong been evident to all of us vho follow the commercial levelopment of the motor that his side of it will in the mmediate future take on an mportance hardly dreamed of is yet by the public." 4,000 ssues on and, sad to say, its mporta nee is still hardly ireamed of by the public.