Papers relating to Rees Jeffreys' involvement in the Roads Improvement Association and the Road Board; road legislation, finance, design and development; Road Congresses; roads overseas; the relationship between road and rail transport; roads during the two world wars and their reconstruction in the post-war period; motor legislation and motor organisations; motorways; town planning; transport congresses and transport policy; transport infrastructure in the Commonwealth; bridges; buses and tramways; Rees Jeffreys' book, 'The King's Highway'; journals concerned with transport; and personal material, including private correspondence, biographical writings and overseas tour diaries.
Rees Jeffreys, William, 1871-1954, writer and publicist
GB 0097 REES-JEFFREYS
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Collection
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1810-1954
GB 0097 HADFIELD
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1938-1978
Notes on the history of the canals and waterways of Britain, with press cuttings and indices.
Hadfield, Ellis Charles Raymond, 1909-1996, Publisher and Historian of Canals