Britain's 1st full-length Motorway (M1) opened on this day (22nd Nov) 1959
The Minister of Transport and Aviation, the Right Honourable Ernest Marples, opened the London to Birmingham Motorway on 22 November 1959 - the M1. In terms of accuracy, the M1 doesn't go to Birmingham, and at the time it opened came to a sudden halt in the middle of nowhere at Crick in Northamptonshire - roughly where the M6 to Birmingham now begins.
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