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Motorway Machines

Date released

21 Jan 1965

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

526

NoS ID

121604

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: ...of the M1 to see the weird, space-age machines that are extending it by the length of a cricket-pitch every two hours. The great, ever-lengthening ribbon of high-speed motorway devours...

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Motorway Progress

Date released

8 Sep 1958

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

58/72

NoS ID

108308

Story no

3 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Minister of Transport Harold Watkinson inspects progress on "Britain’s Autobahn" - the London to Birmingham motorway.

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Preston By-Pass

Date released

18 Jun 1956

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1411

NoS ID

021004

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Road at Preston Started (The Preston By-Pass). SHOTLIST: Various shots of the models of the motorway. Shots of Mr Hugh Molson inaugurating the motorway. Shot of the traffic light...

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Motorway Report

Date released

10 Sep 1959

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1579A

NoS ID

023212

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Motorway Report. DESCRIPTION: Good progress is reported on the Birmingham motorway, that will eventually link London, Birmingham and York. Plastic Sheeting, twenty six feet wide and a...

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Flat Out for Dollars

Date released

10 Apr 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1662

NoS ID

024058

Story no

4 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Flat Out for Dollars. DESCRIPTION: Meet a motor car that’s different, really different, the ‘E’ Type two-seater Jaguar. First, it’s expected to be one of the biggest dollar...

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(Untitled record)

Date released

27 Mar 1969

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

69/26

NoS ID

113514

Story no

2 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

Speed can be great - it can also be dangerous, especially when motorway users ignore bad conditions and thunder on a breakneck rates. A computerised control system costing over £200,000 has recently been...

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French motorway pile-up kills 14 (1993)

Genre

Interview

Interview with American-born Joseph Miller from Colchester, eyewitness to a motorway pile-up in south-west France in which 14 people died. He describes what happened to cause the crash on the Paris-Bordeaux...

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Britain’s New Motorway

Date released

23 Jun 1958

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2553

NoS ID

075072

Story no

4 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Thirteen dead in motorway coach crash (1985)

Genre

News report; Interview

Report on the motorway crash south of Lancaster which has killed thirteen, after a coach travelling from Edinburgh and London crashed into two cars. Includes account by police Inspector George Lusty of his...

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Motorway bus crash in France (1982)

Genre

News report

Report on a motorway bus crash near Beaune in France which has killed 53 people including 45 children. Male reporter not identified.

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