Sujet

Construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), Staffordshire, 20/08/1962. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

A close-up of a chipping spreader in operation during the construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), with a man standing at the back watching a tractor offload aggregate into the hopper. 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_453

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

82,1Mo (5,1Mo) / 45,3cm x 45,4cm / 5353 x 5360 (300dpi)

Mots clés

motorway road building UK England agriculture people male work man men farming engineering worker country construction guy British English laying spreading machine machinery location infrastructure century Britain concept tractor civil engineering filling B&W Staffordshire m6 farm machinery stafford hopper Sixties Construction Industry black & white black and white building materials B W 1960s 20th century workers agricultural machinery TGN working photograph road building aggregate Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding spreader