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To complete 19 months to build the M1, British engineering at its best over engineered to last for ever. Built by proper men to last, unlike now men who work at a shyt slow pace quality is down the drain... on all the roads, at every turn another set of lights with roadworks. Same place Dig it up again and again fixing the same place again and again....
Remove the politics, environmentalists, health and safety and all the red tape. Throw bags of money at it and employ the right people and look what can be achieved. Those days are long gone.
Exactly my thoughts. The railways were completely undercut by this. Also more pollution and car congestion was actually caused by the motorway construction, because of the Downs-Thomsom paradox.
My late father in law Roy Selway worked for Laing in those days and cut his teeth on the M1. He became a Senior Purchasing Agent for the Company and was heavily involved with the reconstruction of both Coventry Cathedral and the BullRing/New Street Station in Birmingham. Proud man and a real gentleman with an encyclopedic knowledge of Laing Construction from an era that required brain power before computers took over.
A great company. Great shame they went bust over 3 jobs that went wrong all at the same time.. Still they got bailed out for £1 by Ray O'Rourke and now trade as Laing O'Rourke.
Moved to Newcastle in 2009. The A1 that goes through the middle of it was being upgraded then and a 50mph work force zone. Its now 2024 and they are still absolutely nowhere near finishing it.
@@gary6576 No it´s not a railway has to be flat with very low gradients so the Victorians would have been faced with viaducts/tunnels. Today´s railways are built using a concrete base. I think the Victorians just built upon clay. Makes you wonder have the tracks don´t sink in wet weather.
Today, they would have 5,000 consultants doubling the time and tripling the cost. Look at HS2, £16bn budget, now £70bn and only half is being built, 5 years behind schedule. The 1950’s, when Britain actually work, Ed!
😢😮men were men back then now they dont even want to get dirty and cost after being sub contracted out 5 times for each tender its inflated to 1 billion per mile and a year plus to do that mile 😂
It shows how technology has changed the way we do things. There is a project here to build two bridges and a mile of motorway, it is to take two years and the M1 was done in 18 months.
The empire was already dead for all intents and purposes, and the Suez crisis made that obvious to the world. More like Britons were united by the horrific experience of WW2 and were committed to moving forward.
My Grandfather Worked on it Right up to The End he layed the Concrete finish on it the whole way With Fitzpatrick Ltd . With a Massive Concrete Finishing machine.
Thats how it should be do e nowadays get on with it no messing plan it properly job done its taken 2years to put some emergency laybys in on the M1 what are they playi g at
It was built in a different era with different rules. No health and safety, no complex construction contracts, very little existing infrastructure to divert, no complex planning rules.
I remember my dad working on the last section of the M1 ,the Leicester,Coalville section,he used to take me on the tractor up and down the motorway,in fact most of his pals would take me in their machines from motor graders to motor scrapers ,I’ve been working on construction plant all my working life and still do 😊
