• The broad historical perspective

  • Highways legislation and the concerns of the legislature

  • Implications of industrial growth and speedier road traffic

  • Campaigning for new roads and motorways: 1902 - 1919

  • Motor transport in the period 1919-1939

  • The impact of the PIARC Conferences of 1926 and 1930

  • The Canadian dimension and its consequences for the UK

  • The PIARC Conference of 1934 and its consequences

  • The first institutional proposals for motorways in Britain

  • Road issues in the war years, 1939-1945

  • Road issues in the post war years, 1946 to 1958

  • A summary conclusion

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