The M4 in the South Western Region
List of material held by the Somerset Archive and Record Service.

A\BXB/1	M4 Motorway
A\BXB/1/1	Official papers and reports
A\BXB/1/1/1	1963-1966	Statutory Instruments of the decisions reached by the Minister of Transport for the M4 Motorway. (1 bundle)
A\BXB/1/1/2	1959	Copies of inspector's Reports on Pubic Inquiries into the route of the proposed M4. (2 documents)
A\BXB/1/1/3	1963-1964	Order plans for parts of the M4, known as 'special roads'. (1 bundle)
A\BXB/1/1/4	1959-1966 1971	Copies of press statements issued by the Ministry of Transport. (1 bundle)
A\BXB/1/2	Pamphlets and opening brochures
A\BXB/1/2/1	1966	Opening brochure for the M4 Motorway, Almondsbury -Tormarton. Prepared by the Gloucestershire County Surveyor for the motorway opening ceremony. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/2/2	1971	Opening brochure for the M4 Motorway, Holyport- Tormarton. Prepared by Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners, the Department of the Environment and the South Eastern Road Construction Unit for the motorway opening ceremony. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/2/3	n.d [c.1971]	A report on the M4, for the Department of the Environment, prepared as a construction report by Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/2/4	1966	A pamphlet entitled, 'Almondsbury 4-Level Interchange' by N J Dallard. Prepared by N J Dallard of Freeman Fox and Partners for the Fifth World Meeting of the International Road Federation in 1966. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/2/5	n.d	Pamphlet entitled, 'What Happened to the Bath Road?' Prepared by the British Road Federation and the British Industry Roads Campaign. It explores the effects of the opening of the M4 on people living in Berkshire and Wiltshire. (2 documents)
A\BXB/1/2/6	1997	'Second Severn Crossing', six papers published in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (Vol. 120, special issue 2). (1 document)
A\BXB/1/3	Recollections and correspondence
A\BXB/1/3/1	n.d	Recollections of N W Lee OBE, former County Engineer of Avon and past President of the Institution of Highways and Transportation, about the First Severn Bridge. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/3/2	1997	Recollections of M N T Cottell OBE, Resident Engineer on design and construction of part of the M4 Almondsbury to Tormarton, and later a President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/3/3	1997	Biographical notes of J W T (Bill) Egerton, former Agent, Project Manager, and latterly Director of Sir Alfred Mcalpine (Southern) Ltd. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/3/4	n.d	Notes entitled, 'How to build a motorway', by Bill Egerton. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/3/5	n.d	Two copies of notes for introductory talks by Bill Egerton, entitled, 'Motorway and Trunk Road Construction'. One copy is annotated with corrections by J L Cox, formerly of Tarmac Civil Engineering (now Carrilion Construction). (2 documents)
A\BXB/1/3/6	1996	Copy letter to J L Cox from J W T Egerton. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/3/7	1997	An appreciation of the late Tom Harrington, Works Manager with Sir Alfred McAlpines, by J W T Egerton. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/3/8	1998	Letter to F D J Johnson from J W T Egerton. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/3/9	1985	An account of Sir Alfred McAlpine's Motorway and Trunk Road activities, 1964-1985. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/3/10	n.d[c.1970]	Extract from W C French Ltd House Journal concerning the construction of the section of the M4 between Wootton Bassett and Liddington, Wiltshire. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/3/11	1998-1999	Letters from Gibb Consulting Engineers to F D J Johnson, concerning archival material. (2 documents)
A\BXB/1/3/12	1998	Correspondence between Wiltshire and Gloucestershire County Record Offices and F D J Johnson. (2 documents)
A\BXB/1/4	Newspaper cuttings
A\BXB/1/4/1	1963-1967	Newspaper cuttings relating to the first Severn Crossing and the Almondsbury Interchange. (1 bundle)
A\BXB/1/5	Almondsbury Interchange papers
A\BXB/1/5/1	1968	'The Four-Level Interchange between M4 and M5 motorways at Almondsbury.' A copy of a paper by Dallard and Kerensky presented to a meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers, November 1968. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/5/2	n.d [c.1968]	Photographs of the opening ceremony of the Almondsbury Interchange by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. (8 documents)
A\BXB/1/5/3	n.d [1960s]	Description of the works undertaken at the Almondsbury Interchange and a plan of the site. (2 documents)
A\BXB/1/5/4	1966	A paper about the Almondsbury Interchange by Dr D S Bondale, presented to the British Constructional Steelworks Association Conference in 1966. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/5/5	1965	Extracts from publications about the Almondsbury Interchange. Includes an extract from The Surveyor and Municipal Engineer, reporting on a visit to the site by members of the Southern District of the Institution of Municipal Engineers, 31 July 1965; and an extract from the Journal of the Institution of Highway Engineers, reporting on a visit of members to inspect works, 19 May 1965. (2 documents)
A\BXB/1/5/6	1967	Copy of a final post construction report. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/5/7	1966	A press release (and a copy of the earlier draft) by the contractor Richard Costain Ltd. (2 documents)
AWB/1/5/8	1965	Copy paper for a slide show presented to the Bristol Association of Engineers, 23 November 1965. (1 document)
A\BXB/1/5/9	1965	Copy papers (and earlier draft) of a paper for a slide show to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyor's, given by Mr W Ayers on 19 Sept 1965. (2 documents)
A\BXB/1/5/10	1965	A copy of a paper by Mr 0 A Kerensky entitled, 'Some Aspects of Highway Design'. This was presented to the Annual Conference of the SW Branch of the Institution of Highway Engineers at Torbay in June 1965. (1 document)