Motorway Collection

Jaguar car advertisement
Advertisement for Jaguar cars featuring an illustration of the 3.4 Mark 2 Saloon being driven down the motorway by its proud owner who relishes the grace, pace and space

Charnock Richard Services, M6 Motorway
Charnock Richard Services (Fortes) - a motorway service station, between Junctions 27 and 28 of the M6 in England, which opened in 1963. Pictures here shortly after opening. Date: circa 1963

Mancunian Way Flyover
The newly-built Manchunian Way flyover, Manchester, England, part of the M6 motorway network. Date: 1960s

Woinic, Saulces-aux-Tournelles, Ardennes, France
Woinic, a giant steel sculpture of a wild boar, by Eric Slezniak, 1983-93, near Saulces-aux-Tournelles in Ardennes, Grand Est, France. The wild boar is the symbol of the Ardennes. Date: 2009

A Sohere suggestion for meeting increasing congestion
Illustration suggesting the need for specially constructed motor-ways to help ease increasing traffic congestion in 1924. The drawing accompanies an article by R. P

The M1 Motorway - 3 Service Stations - Dunstable turn-off
The first section of the M1 Motorway (55 miles in length, spanned by 134 bridges) - 3 Service Stations (Fortes Restaurant)

New Esso Guide to London Airport - Heathrow. 1965

Two boys with teddy boy hairstyles, Winton, Eccles
Two boys with teddy boy hairstyles and casual clothes pose under the motorway bridge in Winton, Eccles. Date: 1970s

M1 Motorway
A section of the M1 motorway from London to the north : characteristically, road works are in evidence

Two people in a car on the Autobahn, Germany
Two people in a car on the Autobahn (motorway) near Braunschweig (Brunswick), Lower Saxony, Germany, working for the British Army of the Rhine. Date: circa 1946

Road signs on the Autobahn near Braunschweig, Germany
Road signs near Braunschweig (Brunswick) leading from the Autobahn (motorway), Lower Saxony, Germany. The letter Y is the sign of the 5th Division, British Army of the Rhine. Date: circa 1946

Motorway service station, Burger King, with people eating, queueing and serving. Date: circa 1980

Conejo Grade coast road, Ventura County, California, USA
Scene on the Conejo Grade coast road, Ventura County, California, USA. Date: circa 1915

Road-side monument for a car-accident victim (usually the driver) - typical shape in Turkmenistan. Ashgabad-Krasnovodsk motorway - Turkmenistan former CIS - Spring - April

Winchester By-Pass
The new Winchester By-Pass, a pre-motorway new road, now swallowed up by the M3 motorway, England. Date: 1950s

Newly Built M1 Motorway
A stretch of the newly-built M1 Motorway, near Little Linford, Buckinghamshire, England, looking south, towards Bow Brickhill, No crash barrier or traffic! Date: 1959 - 1960

Building Superhighway
Highway under construction, U.S.A. Date: 1960s

Advertisement for Brake Linings
An advertisement for Don and Capasco brake linings, Manchester, depicting siz cars on their invisible transporter, stressing the quality of their brakes

Road Accident
The emergency services attend a road traffic accident in snowy conditions on a motorway with the fire brigade

Empty Motorway 1960S
King of the Road: This lucky vehicle driver has the motorway to itself in the early days of motorways in Britain

Building the M1 Motorway. Our photograph shows a section under construction at Upper Heyford, Northamptonshire, England. The Southern stretch opened 2 November 1959

Cars on the Motorway
Cars on the motorway

Plane over M23
An aeroplane flying over the M23 Motorway towards London Gatwick Airport

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