Britain's 1st full-length Motorway (M1) opens, 1959

[WAYNE1977100]

That Ford Anglia smashed a burned out. Nasty.

[TheWindows982]

motorway is cool!

[chanctonbury63]

Whats that at the end. Granada services??? Yuk!

[chanctonbury63]

More than 20 years after the first German one.

[Frates1]

Bring back the gallon, I hate litres !!!

[Fleetline119]

4 shillings = 48 old pence [12 old pence per shilling] = 20 (new 1971) pence.

[shakin2009]

4 and what a gallon? and whats that in denari please, who the heck knows what that is

[Frates1]

@shakin2009 4/3 is about 20.5p. There is 240 old pennies to £1. 12 d to a shilling and a shilling is 5 new pence what we use now. d is what a penny used to be, i.e

lsd, pound, shilling and pence. At least more people could count then lol !

[leapoffaith20]

@shakin2009 4 shillings and 6 pence

As anybody who's had a quick look at recent history would tell you.

[hellonpluto]

Throw petrol on the motorway and set fire to it! LMAO!!!

[Mumblemumble375]

look at it now, it's never that empty

[noinas01]

At risk of being the real anorak...the opening sequence can't be 1959... there's a black Mk3 Ford Zephyr there...first introduced in 1962!....

[mrspivvy]

@noinas01 Yes, and a commer van, also not around in '59

[hallmark18]

Preston Bypass, the UK's first motorway, opened in 1958, you idiot

[jackrussell236]

Read the title you prick, Britains FIRST FULL LENGTH motorway.

[sargeant007]

What the fuck? The 'Preston Bypass' was britains first motorway, not the M1. Get your facts right.

[iconosphereuk]

"I've threw a gallon of petrol across the carriageway and set fire to it". Hahahaha. Quality.

[ruberyb45]

There's too many motorways now. Mores the pity

[patrickharpertube]

until you realise how many motorways there was supposed to be in the first place. Anyone heard of the London Ringways?