Volume: Construction of the M6 Motorway
- Date:
- 1963
- Location:
- Reference:
- JLP01/01/165
- Type:
- Volume Containing Photographic Material
An album of 75 prints showing the 'Birmingham - Preston Motorway', now the M6 under construction. The sites featured are believed to all be within Staffordshire.
Views include specific stretches of motorway under construction, a California Beaming Ratio test, the fixing of a fascia panel, Walton's Wood, the laying of a concrete base course, construction of a roundabout on the border of Cheshire, workers laying asphalt, the Keel Service area, sand and grit bunkers and slip roads.
This is part of the Series: JLP01/01 John Laing Photographic Collection Project Albums; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection
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