Sujet

Gravel pits, Norton, Daventry, Northamptonshire, 11/09/1958. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Dowsett wagons in position ready to transport ballast, extracted from pits at Norton Park, for use in the construction of the London to Yorkshire Motorway (the M1). The gravel pits at Norton Park were located at grid reference SP6052163100.

Date

1958

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM21A84_177

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

61,8Mo (2,9Mo) / 45,1cm x 34,3cm / 5327 x 4053 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation motorway road England work engineering industry country British English industrial truck trucks location infrastructure century Britain lorry lorries company concept quarrying civil engineering B&W excavator extraction fifties tipper truck 1950s m1 road Transport Construction Industry black & white black and white building materials B W 20th century Northamptonshire decade Norton TGN working photograph ballast road building Dowsett Civil Engineering gravel pit Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding