M32 motorway The M32 was planned to be a key radial link through to the hub of a network of radial and ring roads within a rectangle encompassing Bristol. Other bounds of this scheme were parts of the M4 (north eastern side), the M5 (north western side) and the tidal reaches of the River Avon (south western side), the south eastern side not being defined by landmarks. The motorway was partly funded by Gloucestershire County Council and Bristol City Council, with a 75 per cent grant supplied by the national Ministry of Transport. It was provisionally called the Hambrook Spur or the
HMS M32 HMS M32 HMS "M32" was an "M29"-class monitor of the Royal Navy. The availability of ten 6 inch Mk XII guns from the "Queen Elizabeth"-class battleships in 1915 prompted the Admiralty to order five scaled down versions of the "M15"-class monitors, which had been designed to use 9.2 inch guns. HMS "M32" and her sisters were ordered from Harland & Wolff, Belfast in March 1915. However, HMS "M32" and her sister HMS "M33" were sub-contracted to the nearby Workman Clark Limited shipyard. Launched on 22 May 1915, she was completed in June 1915. Upon completion, HMS "M32" was sent to