Chris's shopping list

Files I have located by browsing through the red hard-copy Catalogue folders at the National Archives, and which look interesting, but which I haven't yet seen.

This list was brought bang up to date on 25 June 2011.

MT 39

File references here are MT 39/...

• 351 and 352 - Hyde Park Corner Tunnel (1925-1947)
• 392 - as above

MT 95

File references here are MT 95/...

• 31 - roundabout signs 1953-63
• 35 and 36 - London through-route signs 1947-57
• 59 - pedestrian signals in Slough experiment
• 74 to 83 - New Town layouts 1946-56ish
  • 74 general
  • 75 Newton Aycliffe
  • 76 Harlow
  • 77 Harlow plans
  • 78 Hatfield/WGC
  • 79 Hatfield/WGC plans
  • 80 Hemel
  • 81 Hemel plans
  • 82 Stevenage
  • 83 Stevenage plans
• 134 - roundabout design 1950-60
• 166 - M50 proposals 1954-56!
• 202 - one way street signs 1949-66
• 205 - 40mph signs 1956-61
• 237 - Loughton flyover on A5 (supposedly an experimental design for the M1 project)
• 248-9 - Barton Bridge special road and plans 1956-63 (more found on this at MT 119/116)
• 262 "engineering model room" - sounds fun
• 283 control of small roundabouts by signals
• 294 - motorways general programme 1949-65
  • lots of individual motorway plans follow MT 95/294, scattered among other files. Stops before 384.
• 468 - inspections and observations on M6 - does this mean Preston Bypass? - 1958-65
• 482 - motorway design policy
  • more motorway plans from 522 onwards
• 540 - gantry signs policy
• 568 - development of Carbridge temporary flyover - this is Hogarth model
• 608 - change to right hand driving! 1961-66
• 660 - signs to bypassed towns with plans 1961-65
• 784 - Worboys - with plans
• 785 - Worboys - policy with maps
• 786 - Worboys exhibition at Birmingham, with plans

MT 100

File references MT 100/...

• 1 - Humber Bridge, pre-1961
• 69 - Mancunian Way Special Road scheme
• 70 - Sale-Altrincham Western By-pass
• 112 - Two-level junctions, 1959-64

MT 106

File references MT 106/...

• 163 - Piccadilly Circus redevelopment (others also at later refs on this topic)
• 225 - Trafalgar Square underpass and relief road

MT 110

File references MT 110/...

• 18 - Oxford Circus scheme
• 110 - South Orbital Road - Surrey - approval process (maps/plans)

MT 116

This is all the Worboys papers - 17 items and that's it.

MT 121

File references MT 121/...

• 13 - Motor roads in the vicinity of Birmingham 1949-58
• 183 - provision of emergency service areas by October 1959
• 379 - Naming and numbering of motorways. (Naming?)
• 388 - Signage improvement scheme, motorways and all purpose roads

MT 152

File references MT 152/...

• 15 Kent County Council: highway implications of Channel Tunnel 1966-69
• 48 Yorkshire: trunk road programme 1970-80, roads to be included
• 67 M62 between A1 and M1
• 68 as above
• 83 sounds like Garforth Bypass - 1938-64!
• 135 Shipley Northern Bypass and Aire Valley Route (1963-69)
• 175-7 Aston Expressway and Gravelly Hill, including signalling system
• 195/1 and 195/2 M25 Godstone-Sevenoaks and Wrotham Spur 1970-71 (may show original M20 line?)
• 200/1 and 200/2 M25 Egham-Maple Cross including Heathrow Spur and alternate routes
• 246 M20 Swanley-Wrotham and public inquiry 1972-3 (too late to show original M20 line?)
• 274/1 and 274/2 A616 Wortley-M1 and "Longdendale Mcr-Shef Fast Route" 1975-6
• 387 Dartford Tunnel: report on use as element of M25 1976-83
• 425 dated 1984, this is first file to refer to A42 instead of M42.

HLG 159

File references HLG 159/...

• 167-171 - draft inquiry report
• 574 - case for/against R1
• 958-9 - R2 photo montage and plan
• 970 - LB Greenwich objections to urban motorway plans - study of effects of building motorways through existing urban communities
• 1604 - cost of road proposals
• 1625 - alternative to proposed roads - the RLBA? (Royal London Boroughs Association or something?)
• 2183 - Bromley R2 alternative line through Beckenham with plans
• 2240 - Bromley: new line for Parkway E with plans
• 2242 - environmental effects of primary road network in LB Croydon and Greenwich
• 2388 - GLC response to HLG 159/2316
• 2494 - investigation into R1 bored tunnel below Blackheath
• 2511 – maps and diags of cut-and-cover in Camden