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.

I don't look after this list very well and some things here might now have been listed properly elsewhere on the wiki.

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
• 84 to 86 - Greater London Plan
• 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)
• 246 - "road viaducts over railways in major cities" - sounds intriguing - 1955-58
• 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.
• 384 design of signs on M1
• 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
• 600 - car plant at Hooton - is this the M531 unclassified? - 1960
• 608 - change to right hand driving! 1961-66
• 660 - signs to bypassed towns with plans 1961-65
• 523-4 - design of Almondsbury interchange (524 has plans) - also see 836
• 568 - development of Carbridge temporary flyover - this is Hogarth model
• 594 - looks like northerly M62 line terminating on A1 at Selby Fork
• 606 - design of signs - drawings
• 784 - Worboys - with plans
• 785 - Worboys - policy with maps
• 786 - Worboys exhibition at Birmingham, with plans
• 815 - motorway layout and number of carriageways - no idea but sounds interesting
• 817 - motorway signposting with plans
• 857 - VMS including M4 elevated road
  • continues through 924-7, 987-9
• 985 - hovercraft crossings - goes with MT 95/1007

HLG 159

File references HLG 159/...

• 158-9 - Ministry of Transport evidence, with plans
• 167-171 - draft inquiry report
• 273 - "request for information from GLC on new motorways"
• 381 - economic case for NCR (did I mean North Cross or North Circular here? Don't know)
• 396 - M4 and NCR - questioning of DoE
• 403 - map of M11/12/15 junction
• 462 - 3rd London airport DoE consultation paper
• 479 - revised map of primary network
• 572 - phasing of primary road network - timing!
• 574 - case for/against R1
• 626 - final draft of chapter 17, the road system
• 956-7 - R1 photo montage and plan
• 958-9 - R2 photo montage and plan
• 970 - LB Greenwich objections to urban motorway plans
• 1024 and 1026 - GLC evidence - transport - with plans
• 1604 - cost of road proposals
• 1625 - alternative to proposed roads - the RLBA?
• 1672 - compulsory purchase costs for R1, R2, M23 and others
• 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
• 2274 - West London Interchange at Chiswick
• 2388 - GLC response to HLG 159/2316
• 2494 - investigation into R1 bored tunnel below Blackheath

listing checked through to 2508, more still to look through