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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 1926 and 1976.
1917 1926 1976 The TUC launches a General Strike "in defence of miners' wages and hours" after mine owners cut pay and extended hours The strike failed although the miners held out until October. In the US Marion B Skaggs founded Safeway food stores. Scottish engineer John Logie Baird demonstrated a machine that transmitted moving pictures;he called it a "televisor". Escapologist Harry Houdini dies of peritonitis.
Happy birthday
The Commercial Motor came of age; the editor wrote: "The amenities and business conditions of modern life are so bound up with the wonderful advances made in the commercial vehicle employed for good carrying and the transport of people that it is extremely difficult to realise that only 21 years ago the road transport industry was really in its infancy." He noted that the UK CV parc had risen from 4,000 in 1905 to 320,000.
No knocking
Daimler was granted a patent for a diesel ignition system that would work "without the objectionable hammering which is usual when a charge is compressed to the point where its temperature rises sufficiently to cause spontaneous combustion."
Pneumatic Scammell
Scammell launched a nine-ton flatbed running on 10 40x8in Dunlop pneumatic tyres:"It's use is not limited to ordinary roads, for it is intended for running across country on soft ground. Exports had started to Venezuala and Australia. The first fare paying passengers break the sound barrier in Concorde. In South Africa riots break out in the township of Soweto, marking the beginning of the end for apartheid. On 3 July —the day before the US Bicentennial celebrations —the US Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is "constitutionally acceptable".
Going down
Ruthmann of Germany put a 13,700kg GVW Unimog into production featuring ground-level loading. Integral hydraulic jacks lowered the body for loading; payload was 7.5 tonnes.
Dangerous loads
The RHA launched an 'emergency load transfer scheme' to help hauliers whose vehicles were involved in accidents or spillages using members of the association's bulk liquids functional group.
Scania 6x4
CM's technical team predicted that Scania would use the Earls Court show to launch a 6x4.The Swedes had always claimed a 6x2 with a bogie lift could match a 6x4 on soft ground, but they were bowing to pressure from operators.
Long-haul comfort
Daf's 2800 Supercontinental designed for runs to the Middle East boasted an options list including a fridge, gas cooker, wardrobe.., and the kitchen sink.