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Miscellaneous Motorway Documents. Box 3 - Construction
List of material held in the Lancashire CC Record Office

ITEMDESCRIPTIONDATEAUTHOR/ORIGINATOR
1

'Highwayman'
The author was a civil engineer and gives a personal memoir of road building between the wars and up to 1967

Published privately in 1991Christopher Armstrong
2

'Notes for an inspection of motorways in Lancashire'

?Anonymous and undated but, almost certainly, produced by Lancashire County Surveyor's Department
3

'Department of Transport: Contracting for Roads'
A report on contracting procedures

1992Comptroller and Auditor General
4

'Contract Procedures and Documents'
A paper detailing procedures for trunk road contracts

c 1998J M Hood
5

'Lancashire County Engineering Society: 25th Anniversary Symposium'
Envelope containing papers presented at the 25th Anniversary Symposium

1970LCES
6

'The best use of plant for major road construction'
A paper presented to a meeting of the Institution of Highway Engineers (now the Institution of Highways and Transportation)

15th January 1969P H Bell of Sir Alfred McAlpine and Sons Ltd, motorway and civil engineering contractors
7

'Visit to motorways under construction in Lancashire'
Details of a visit to Lancashire motorways to commemorate the centenary of the Institution of Municipal Engineers (now absorbed into the Institution of Civil Engineers)

November 1972Lancashire County Council
8

'Motorways in Lancashire under construction - 1969'
Report discussing progress mainly on M61 and M62

1969Ministry of Transport (NWRCU)
Lancashire County Council