Roads Matter; Scotland : booklet issued by the Roads Campaign Council/British Roads Federation, c1957 : Linlithgow and Perth
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.
The upper image here shows the aqueduct that carries the Union Canal over Edinburgh Road in Linlithgow, a section of road I recall from my days as a conductor on Eastern Scottish although the Falkirk route was a rare outing for us at New St. A Briitsh Road Services lorry squeezes through causing a Castrol van to veer to the left whilst a Morris Minor Countryman waits on the side. This is still much the same, the bridge now controlled by traffic signals with the hospital entrance to the left.
Perth, before the Tay Road Bridge and other improvements, was indeed a major intersection of north - south and east-west routes through the city centre. This looks across Queens Bridge into South Street with the traffic signals controllingt he junction of Tay Street.
Roads Matter; Scotland : booklet issued by the Roads Campaign Council/British Roads Federation, c1957 : Linlithgow and Perth
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.
The upper image here shows the aqueduct that carries the Union Canal over Edinburgh Road in Linlithgow, a section of road I recall from my days as a conductor on Eastern Scottish although the Falkirk route was a rare outing for us at New St. A Briitsh Road Services lorry squeezes through causing a Castrol van to veer to the left whilst a Morris Minor Countryman waits on the side. This is still much the same, the bridge now controlled by traffic signals with the hospital entrance to the left.
Perth, before the Tay Road Bridge and other improvements, was indeed a major intersection of north - south and east-west routes through the city centre. This looks across Queens Bridge into South Street with the traffic signals controllingt he junction of Tay Street.