More Cat Drivers, Hala Hill, Scotforth - 1959
Three Caterpillar drivers I met early in summer 1959. I earned some pocket money taking photos of the men and their machines at work on various sections of the motorway.
Note the 'high fashion' accessory of the time - the wartime issued canvas gas-mask haversack! The men would have used it for their lunch gear etc. I still have one of these, issued to my dad circa 1940. The two men at the left are probably going 'off shift', as they appear to be dressed for the road.
The Lancaster By-Pass, now part of the M6, was one of the earliest sections of motorway to be constructed in Britain. Work began following on from the Preston By-Pass (M6) and the M1. The new 2 lane each way road was 11.5 miles long, between Hampson Green, just south of Galgate to Carnforth Level north of Lancaster, both accessed from the old A6 highway.
View taken: 27 May 1959, at the new Blea Tarn Road Bridge site (Hala Hill), Scotforth.
Camera: Braun Paxette 1 (1953), Steinheil Cassar f2.8 45mm lens, Prontor SVS shutter.
Film: Kodak Plus X.
Scanner: Epson V800 with Epson software.
More Cat Drivers, Hala Hill, Scotforth - 1959
Three Caterpillar drivers I met early in summer 1959. I earned some pocket money taking photos of the men and their machines at work on various sections of the motorway.
Note the 'high fashion' accessory of the time - the wartime issued canvas gas-mask haversack! The men would have used it for their lunch gear etc. I still have one of these, issued to my dad circa 1940. The two men at the left are probably going 'off shift', as they appear to be dressed for the road.
The Lancaster By-Pass, now part of the M6, was one of the earliest sections of motorway to be constructed in Britain. Work began following on from the Preston By-Pass (M6) and the M1. The new 2 lane each way road was 11.5 miles long, between Hampson Green, just south of Galgate to Carnforth Level north of Lancaster, both accessed from the old A6 highway.
View taken: 27 May 1959, at the new Blea Tarn Road Bridge site (Hala Hill), Scotforth.
Camera: Braun Paxette 1 (1953), Steinheil Cassar f2.8 45mm lens, Prontor SVS shutter.
Film: Kodak Plus X.
Scanner: Epson V800 with Epson software.