ATV Today: 01.07.1971: Report on the new 12 mile stretch of M6

Summary

Alan Jones report on the new 12 mile stretch of the M6 motorway running between Coleshill and Ansty.

Year:

1971

Duration:

0:02:59

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Point of view shots on the new section of the M6 motorway including a view of the pedestrian footbridge at Corley services. Shot of the new M6 section with little traffic in sight. Further in-car shots as Alan Jones drives on a section at Maxstoke that has an extra lane to aid the overtaking of slow moving lorries. We then see a view of the M5 at Bescot in the West Midlands which has a gradient and problems with a build-up of heavy vehicles. Jones then shows how difficult it is to leave the M5 at Bescot due to the numbers of lorries.


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