The contract for this 1.2 mile section of the motorway was awarded to W & C French in the sum of £1.375 million and commenced in June 1969.

It enabled the Pennine section of the Motorway to be completed up to Outlane at Huddersfield and provided an interchange with the A640 Huddersfield - Rochdale Road and the A643 Brighouse - Outlane Road, giving access to Huddersfield from Manchester and the M6 motorway in the West.

The hottest Huddersfield summer for forty years, allowed an exceptionally good start on the contract. In three weeks the muckshifting team of four dump trucks and the largest caterpillar wheeled shovel in Europe (Cat 992) had gouged an enormous hole in the hillside overlooking the once peaceful village of Outlane. After excavating unsuitable material below the proposed embankment and using it to fill surrounding fields to replace the first and eighteenth holes of the local golf course, the pipelayers moved in to speed their way through a mile of pre-earthworks drainage and outfalls ready for the main onslaught on the earthworks when the newly acquired 110 RB became available in the middle of August.

The mile and a quarter stretch of motorway consisted of one big cut to fill operation involving a million cubic yards of muck and rock and an interchange and roundabout carrying the main Huddersfield to Preston road over the motorway on the larger of the two structures included in the contract. The small underpass was already under construction, while every effort was being made to complete enough of the cutting to ensure a mid-August start on the foundations of the interchange bridge. A 400 ft. long Armco culvert had already been completed.

The contract was completed on 30^th November 1970 and enabled the crossing of the Pennines by motorway from Lancashire to Yorkshire at Outlane near Huddersfield, although the official opening was to come much later