Description

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The Motorway Archive consists of a store of material distributed across various local record offices. It includes memorabilia, documents of the time, and the recollections of those involved in creating the UK’s motorways. The collection constitutes the history of the Motorway Programme.

The aims of the Archive Trust are educational and it is hoped to derive teaching packages from the archive material. The three volumes of The Motorway Achievement record the history and insights that have been gained from the material.

Contents

The Motorway Achievement, Volume 1: Visualisation of the British motorway system: Policy and Administration

• Visualising the system - insights into the history of Britain's motorway
• The economic justification for and delivery of affordable motorways
• Orientation of motorways
• Resolving issues in the design and construction of motorways
• The influence of science and technology within motorway policy
• Safety provision
• Administration
• Direction of policy towards the future
• Technical appendices

The Motorway Achievement, Volume 2: Frontiers of knowledge and practice

• Acknowledgements
• Motorway programme: Planning and Engineering
• The Introduction of Computers
• Route Alignment and Road Geometry
• Earthworks and Drainage
• Structural Design of Pavements
• The Development of Bridge Design Practice
• Contracting to Build the Motorway
• Motorway Communications and Control
• Conversion of Historic unit to S.I
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Glossary
• Index

The Motorway Achievement, Volume 3: Building the network

• Preface
• Introduction
• England - Eastern
• England - London
• England - Midlands
• England - North Eastern
• England - North Western
• England - South Eastern
• England - South Western
• Northern Ireland
• Scotland
• Wales
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Glossary
• Index