The M1 Opens
The M1 Opens. A service area on the new M1 in Northamptonshire in November 1959. The motorway opened on the 2nd with no speed limit, no lights and no crash…
Seventy-two miles of motorway. One place to stop.
A service area on the new M1 in Northamptonshire in November 1959. The motorway opened on the 2nd with no speed limit, no lights and no crash barriers, and you are the only place to stop on it. The Ministry's lease says you open all day and all night. Nobody yet knows who wants a meal at four in the morning.
- Starts
- November 1959
- Length
- two years
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Scored on
- Trade profitably for 14 months
- Business
- Motorway Service Area
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