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==Context==
==Context==
The Greater London Council had a huge, colourful map for showing off the centrepiece of its motorway plans - an A1 sheet with a pale rendition of an Ordnance Survey map of Greater London, upon which were superimposed the line of Ringway 1, the Balham Loop and a number of radial motorways. They are colour-coded (as are most GLC documents) with the lines in orange for ground level roads, red for below ground and purple for above ground. Junctions, alternative routes and railways are also marked.
Internal machinations within the Treasury concerning the Ringway plans, which makes for utterly fascinating reading. As well as several nuggets of information that are not found elsewhere, it has the full set of correspondence between the GLC and Treasury surrounding the government's disapproval.


This file's only contents is a full sheet version of this map, which crops up from time to time in all sorts of Ringway files at the National Archives. This appears to be its spiritual home, though, as the only place where it has a file reference of its own.
==Contents of note==
* Correspondence between Mr Downey (GLC) and DEJ Dowler (Treasury), asking what scope there is for "killing the whole project", in 1969.
* GLC standard A1-size map of the Motorway Box, with colour-coded lines for sunken, elevated and ground-level motorways, as planned in 1967.


==People with camera copies==
==People with camera copies==
None known. [[User:Chris5156|Chris Marshall]] has a high-resolution scan of this map, which he has had printed and framed and hung above his desk, and it looks super, thank you.
None known. [[User:Chris5156|Chris Marshall]] has a high-resolution scan of the map, which he has had printed and framed and hung above his desk, and it looks super, thank you.

Latest revision as of 18:57, 10 March 2011

London Motorway Box: network of primary roads planned by Greater London Council

Date range1968-1973
LocationNational Archives (see all files stored here)
CatalogueSee entry
File baseSeries T, subseries T 319

Context

Internal machinations within the Treasury concerning the Ringway plans, which makes for utterly fascinating reading. As well as several nuggets of information that are not found elsewhere, it has the full set of correspondence between the GLC and Treasury surrounding the government's disapproval.

Contents of note

  • Correspondence between Mr Downey (GLC) and DEJ Dowler (Treasury), asking what scope there is for "killing the whole project", in 1969.
  • GLC standard A1-size map of the Motorway Box, with colour-coded lines for sunken, elevated and ground-level motorways, as planned in 1967.

People with camera copies

None known. Chris Marshall has a high-resolution scan of the map, which he has had printed and framed and hung above his desk, and it looks super, thank you.

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