Roads Matter; Scotland : booklet issued by the Roads Campaign Council/British Roads Federation, c1957 : Sterling
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 publicity or propaganda booklets and this is called "Roads Matter - Scotland" and this makes you wonder if other regional booklets in the same 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.
this marvellous view is of traffic in Sterling and shows a pedestrian 'Zebra Crossing' with its relatively new road markings along with the Belisha Beacons that had been introduced earlier in the 1930s. A removals van, or pantechnicon, belonging to Andrew Stewart & Sons, a local removals concern moves off and this will allow the Alexander's double deck bus that I think is registered AFG 687, R419, to turn right - and thanks to Andrew (below) it's reckoned to be one of the interesting single deck chassis latterly reconstructed to carry a double deck body having originally been a Leyland Tiger TS7 new in 1936 when it carried the fleet number P258.
The massive concrete lamp post columns with the then popular fluorescent lanterns are very obvious, the double bracket being a locally made Springbank column whilst the next few appear to be suspension hung from the adjacent tenement blocks - less so, tucked away to the right, is a milk float!
Roads Matter; Scotland : booklet issued by the Roads Campaign Council/British Roads Federation, c1957 : Sterling
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 publicity or propaganda booklets and this is called "Roads Matter - Scotland" and this makes you wonder if other regional booklets in the same 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.
this marvellous view is of traffic in Sterling and shows a pedestrian 'Zebra Crossing' with its relatively new road markings along with the Belisha Beacons that had been introduced earlier in the 1930s. A removals van, or pantechnicon, belonging to Andrew Stewart & Sons, a local removals concern moves off and this will allow the Alexander's double deck bus that I think is registered AFG 687, R419, to turn right - and thanks to Andrew (below) it's reckoned to be one of the interesting single deck chassis latterly reconstructed to carry a double deck body having originally been a Leyland Tiger TS7 new in 1936 when it carried the fleet number P258.
The massive concrete lamp post columns with the then popular fluorescent lanterns are very obvious, the double bracket being a locally made Springbank column whilst the next few appear to be suspension hung from the adjacent tenement blocks - less so, tucked away to the right, is a milk float!