Looking for somewhere to go on his recently-loaned Ariel Arrow, Motor Cycle staffer John Ebbrell (pictured centrally) had decided on a visit to the Lakes. He reasoned: “Thanks to the M6, Londoners are only six hours from Kendal, Brummies a mere three.”
Though the M6 wasn’t totally completed at the time of our September 1964 photograph, it was nearly there. The initial section of the M6 was the Preston bypass, which became
