Roads Matter; Scotland : booklet issued by the Roads Campaign Council/British Roads Federation, c1957 : Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and Cart Bridges, Renfrew/Inchinnan
The Roads Campaign Council, an umbrella group that comprised a wide range of parties interested in road transport, was backed by the British Road Federation and seems to have been active in the post-war years as road transport began to grow and investment in roads was seen as being tardy. The 1950s saw the serious development of schemes for major routes such as motorways and ambitious plans for new roads as part of urban redevelopments and these would, of course, be brought to fruition in the 1960s onwards.
The Campaign seem to have issued a series of publciity or propaganda booklets and this is called "Roads Matter - Scotland" and this makes you wonder if other regional booklets in the dame format were issued? I have similar booklets issued by them for specific groups of English towns. The twenty page booklet has text and a series of images showing congestion in urban areas, such as Glasgow, Stirling and Dunfermline as well as 'dangerous roads' such as the A74 Anglo-Scottish trunk road and the A77, the route from Glasgow into Ayrshire.
The photos are of good quality and show street and roadscapes now lost along with many contemporary vehicles and period features that prove to make for fascinating research! I've scanned and posted a selection. The book credits a designer - John Denison-Hunt FSIA - and although not dated appears to be 1957.
The upper image shows the A96 Inverness to Aberdeen main road negotiating a sharp bend under the railway at Huntly with two trucks passing. Although the A96 now does bypass the town here the railway and bridge still survive as a public road at this point. The lower image shows one of the two bridges over the Cart rivers between Renfrew and Inchinnan, this being the lift bridge over the White Cart Water. The photographer stands with their back to the second crossing, the ancient stone bridge over the Black Cart Water that is, I think as I write, being replaced with a new structure. The main A8 is now bypassed here by the M8 to the south just the otherside of Glasgow Airport whose runways extent almost to this point.
Roads Matter; Scotland : booklet issued by the Roads Campaign Council/British Roads Federation, c1957 : Huntly, Aberdeenshire, and Cart Bridges, Renfrew/Inchinnan
The Roads Campaign Council, an umbrella group that comprised a wide range of parties interested in road transport, was backed by the British Road Federation and seems to have been active in the post-war years as road transport began to grow and investment in roads was seen as being tardy. The 1950s saw the serious development of schemes for major routes such as motorways and ambitious plans for new roads as part of urban redevelopments and these would, of course, be brought to fruition in the 1960s onwards.
The Campaign seem to have issued a series of publciity or propaganda booklets and this is called "Roads Matter - Scotland" and this makes you wonder if other regional booklets in the dame format were issued? I have similar booklets issued by them for specific groups of English towns. The twenty page booklet has text and a series of images showing congestion in urban areas, such as Glasgow, Stirling and Dunfermline as well as 'dangerous roads' such as the A74 Anglo-Scottish trunk road and the A77, the route from Glasgow into Ayrshire.
The photos are of good quality and show street and roadscapes now lost along with many contemporary vehicles and period features that prove to make for fascinating research! I've scanned and posted a selection. The book credits a designer - John Denison-Hunt FSIA - and although not dated appears to be 1957.
The upper image shows the A96 Inverness to Aberdeen main road negotiating a sharp bend under the railway at Huntly with two trucks passing. Although the A96 now does bypass the town here the railway and bridge still survive as a public road at this point. The lower image shows one of the two bridges over the Cart rivers between Renfrew and Inchinnan, this being the lift bridge over the White Cart Water. The photographer stands with their back to the second crossing, the ancient stone bridge over the Black Cart Water that is, I think as I write, being replaced with a new structure. The main A8 is now bypassed here by the M8 to the south just the otherside of Glasgow Airport whose runways extent almost to this point.