RAPID ROADMAKING
NEW METHOD EVOLVED SUCCESSFUL TRIALS IN INDIA Prc«( Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 29. (Received November 30, at 9 a.m.) A new niothod of rapid roadmaking, described as the greatest advance since the war, is reported by the ‘ Daily Telegraph’s ’ military correspondent, who states that trials in India were successful. By the use of bitumen emulsion u hard skin can be rapidly laid over tbe surface, forming a roadway strong enough to hear almost an unlimited number of motor lorries. Whereas ordinary roadmaking involves a vast amount of material in the shape of stones and lighter metal, also immense labour, the new roads can be pushed into hostile territory at the rate of eight miles a day. The surface is first scar ified, the track then levelled by means of a grader, and finally the bitumen emulsion mixed cold with tbe earth on flic surface. Thus a skin is formed.
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Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 9
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152RAPID ROADMAKING Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 9
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