RAC - know your motorways, June 1972 - motorway signs and signals
The UK's motorway network was expanding quickly in the first years of the 1970s and this Royal Automobile Club map folder shows the extent of the new roads as well as giving advice as to the 'rules of the road' and information as to signs and services.
The motorway signs are those introduced in the 1960s and designed by Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir and that formed part of a wider redesign of the UK's road and traffic signs that formed part of the Worboys Committee. The early electronic signs were starting to be introduced especialy in urban sitiations whilst the vertical flashing amber light posts were, I recall, introduced along with the 70 mph speed limit after a series of very bad traffic accidents due to fog.
RAC - know your motorways, June 1972 - motorway signs and signals
The UK's motorway network was expanding quickly in the first years of the 1970s and this Royal Automobile Club map folder shows the extent of the new roads as well as giving advice as to the 'rules of the road' and information as to signs and services.
The motorway signs are those introduced in the 1960s and designed by Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir and that formed part of a wider redesign of the UK's road and traffic signs that formed part of the Worboys Committee. The early electronic signs were starting to be introduced especialy in urban sitiations whilst the vertical flashing amber light posts were, I recall, introduced along with the 70 mph speed limit after a series of very bad traffic accidents due to fog.