Sujet

Construction of the Staffordshire section of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), 21/03/1962 Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

A worker driving a Stothert & Pitt 'Vibroll' 32R Mk1 machine, a vibrating roller used to compact roads, seen during the construction of the Staffordshire section of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6). This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20.

Date

1962

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Notre référence

HRM21B15_443

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

108,8Mo (3,5Mo) / 59,4cm x 45,8cm / 7021 x 5414 (300dpi)

Mots clés

driving motorway road building UK England people male work man men engineering worker country construction guy British English machine machinery location drive infrastructure century Britain driver roller concept civil engineering B&W Staffordshire m6 Sixties Construction Industry black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century compacting workers TGN working photograph road building Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding