Title

Excavations on the route of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), Staffordshire, 27/05/1961. Creator: John Laing plc.

Caption

A view of excavations being carried out on the route of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), showing a excavator loading a dump truck with excavated material. The work on the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), between junctions J13 to J16 started in June 1960 and was carried out by John Laing Construction Ltd.

Date

1961

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM21B15_445

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

81,3Mb (5,3Mb) / 17,7in x 17,8in / 5315 x 5347 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation motorway road building UK England work engineering country construction British English machine loading truck trucks machinery location infrastructure century Britain lorry concept civil engineering B&W Staffordshire dump truck excavator m6 Sixties road Transport Construction Industry black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century TGN working photograph road building Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding