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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.
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.



Revision as of 10:54, 30 December 2008

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

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

listing checked through to 1194, more still to look through