Britain’s “Autobahn“ (1958)

Full title reads: “Britain’s ’Autobahn’“. Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Progress on London to Yorkshire motorway M1. General air view of the new road under construction. GV Machines and men at work. CU Earth which has been scraped up by the scraping machines. SV Machines in action. CU Scraping up earth. CU Earth which has been scraped up by the machine in the compartment in which the earth is carried with a great clod of earth being pushed up over the back wall of the compartment, clod of earth breaks in two and half of it falls to the ground. CU Wheel of one of the scraping machines stuck in the mud and spinning round. CU Bottom of wheel spinning round in the mud. CU Bulldozer coming up behind the scraper, gives it a push and frees it from the mud. CU Tracks of bulldozer in the mud. CU Scraper coming towards camera. GV Lorry going towards a cutting which is shored up with wood so that it will not collapse. SV Cutting with shoring and showing the railway line which runs above. GV Tree felling. CU Man