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 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
• 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)
• 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
• 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